Cómo leer rascacielos: Un curso intensivo sobre edificios de gran altura

by Edward Denison, Nick Beech, José Miguel Gómez Acosta (Translator)

Cómo leer los rascacielos facilita una comprensión rica y profunda del mundo de los rascacielos al proporcionar una descripción completa de este tipo de edificios singulares y fascinantes. A lo largo del tiempo, la historia de los rascacielos ha sido definida por nuestro deseo de trascendencia política, militar, económica, religiosa, cultural y, por supuesto, física. Estas espectaculares superestructuras representan más que una mera aspiración arquitectónica, estimulan la imaginación y causan asombro, por lo que este libro proporciona una referencia visual sobre los rascacielos más importantes del mundo.

Genres: Architecture

256 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2020

About the author

Dr Edward Denison is a Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture and an independent architectural, urban and cultural specialist. He is Director of the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, Co-coordinator of Year5 Thesis, Module Coordinator of Multiple Modernities Architecture on the MA Architectural History, and a PhD Supervisor.

Reviews

[Maryanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a delightful little book and it is just what the title says, all about the interesting, beautiful and mundane skyscrapers. Lots of fun facts and brief descriptions about construction, architecture, architects and design.

[Donald · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pro - great pictures and timeline of bigger and bigger skyscrapers.
Con - focus on materials science and architectural/customer egos, at the expense of anything on funding from kleptocrats, money laundering by foreign oligarchs into manhattan apartments, consequences of in-commuting to work in towers and back to the suburbs at night, not an affordable apartment in sight.

Title should be, How to make money off bigger and bigger buildings. Feh.

[Pinar G · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kitabın ilk yorumunu ben yazıyorum ve ilk goodreads okuyucusu da benim. :) Kitabın ismi ilgimi çektiği için okudum, içeriği de aynı şekilde ilgi çekiciydi. Mimarlık bilgim hiç olmamasına karşın beğendim, biraz daha hikayecilik katıp binalar hakkında tarihi bilgiler verseler benden 5 puan alırlardı.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favourite feature of this handsomely illustrated book was that the author did not choose the most obvious building that are usually included in similar books. The only thing I did not like was that many pictures were in a form of drawings, while I believe it could be better if they were photos.

[Leonard Tang · Rating 4 out of 5]

a lot of nice trivia about some beautiful buildings. wish there were less sketches and more photos