THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE WORLD
by Rybczynski, Witold
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0670819816
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819812
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1989. Very good+ (bumped lower corners, otherwise fine) in very good+ dust jacket (very minor edgewear at bottom of spine and lower corners). The author--a professor of architecture at McGill University--muses over the meaning of architecture and our use of space, working outward from the idea of a house he will build.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.
Synopsis
Witold Rybczynski of Polish parentage, was born in Edinburgh in 1943, raised in Surrey, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1960) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of more than fifty articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology, including the books Taming the Tiger , Paper Heroes , The Most Beautiful House in the World , Waiting for the Weekend , and Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture (all available in Penguin), and most recently, City Life . He lives with his wife, Shirley Hallam, in Philadelphia and is the Martin and Margy Myerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Bookseller
- Barbara Bilson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002585
- Title
- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE WORLD
- Author
- Rybczynski, Witold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670819816
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819812
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART; ARCHITECTURE / General;
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