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why architecture matters y yale university press new haven and london X paul goldberger why architecture matters Disclaimer: Some images in the printed version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. Copyright ∫ 2009 Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. by Paul Goldberger. Designed by Nancy Ovedovitz and set in Adobe Garamond All rights reserved. type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, This book may not be Pennsylvania. Printed in the United States of America. reproduced, in whole Photo editor: Natalie Matutschovsky or in part, including illustrations, in any Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data form (beyond that Goldberger, Paul. copying permitted by Why architecture matters / Paul Goldberger. Sections 107 and 108 p. cm. of the U.S. Copyright Includes bibliographical references and index. Law and except by isbn 978-0-300-14430-7 (cloth : alk. paper) reviewers for the 1. Architecture—Psychological aspects. 2. Architecture and public press), without society. I. Title. written permission na2540.g63 2009 from the publishers. 720.1%03—dc22 2009011071 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 also by paul goldberger The City Observed, New York: An Architectural Guide to Manhattan The Skyscraper On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-modern Age Houses of the Hamptons Manhattan Unfurled (with Matteo Pericoli) The World Trade Center Remembered Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York Beyond the Dunes (with Jake Rajs) For Susan, Adam, Ben, and Alex; Delphine, Thibeaux, and Josephine and for Vincent Scully contents Introduction ix one Meaning, Culture, and Symbol 1 two Challenge and Comfort 41 three Architecture as Object 65 four Architecture as Space 109 five Architecture and Memory 139 six Buildings and Time 171 seven Buildings and the Making of Place 212 Glossary 237 A Note on Bibliography 247 Acknowledgments 253 Illustration Credits 257 Index 259 introduction We could not live without architecture, but that is not why it matters. The purpose of this book is to explain what buildings do beyond keeping us out of the rain. Architecture may be able to stake a claim to being necessary to our lives in a way that poetry and literature and painting cannot, but the fact that buildings give us shelter is not the answer to the question posed by the title. If it were as simple as that, there would be nothing left to say. Architecture begins to matter when it goes beyond protecting us from the elements, when it begins to say something about the world—when it begins to take on the qualities of art. You could say that architecture is what happens when people build with an awareness that they are doing something that reaches at least a little bit beyond the practical. It may be as tiny a gesture as painting the front door of a house red or as grand an undertaking as creating the rose window of a cathedral. It can be as casual as a sliver of decorative molding around a window or as carefully

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Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to “come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architectur
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