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What It Feels Like to Be a Building

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Have you ever felt squashed? Squeezed? Pulled? Tugged? If so, then you know what it feels like to be a building! Here, with playful drawings and humorous text, award-winning author Forrest Wilson uses human figures (plus some dogs and rams) to show that architecture and people have more in common than you might have believed. This book will delight everyone who is fascinated with the buildings around us.

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First published September 1, 1988

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June 17, 2011
The physical phenomenology (or phenomenological physics) of buildings: “Even though a column might be disguised in squiggles, it still feels squashed.” Right up my alley.
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