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For an Architecture of Reality
	Author: Michael Benedikt Publisher: Lumen Books Category: Book List Price: ~~$15.00~~ Buy New: $6.00 You Save: $9.00 (60%) New (17) Used (20) from $5.29 Rating: 13 reviews Sales Rank: 280406 Media: Paperback Pages: 74 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.3 ISBN: 0930829050 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780930829056 ASIN: 0930829050 Publication Date: January 1, 1992 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Michael Benedikt teaches, practices architecture, and writes in Austin, where he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas. His second book, Deconstructing the Kimbell (0-930829-16-6), is also published by Lumen. "Benedikt has written a bold theoretical essay, with stirring cultural implications, that argues to restore the missing sense of reality to architecture and insists on the direct esthetic experience of the real.' . . . a timely manifesto. Thought-provoking and eminently quotable, it succeeds admirably in what it sets out to do: to recall architecture, and not only architecture, to those all but mute meanings so often passed over and yet inseparable from our everyday existence.-Karsten Harries "This book will still be useful when this year's round arches have all been remodeled (isn't it inevitable?) into pointed. And because it is so vividly -and thoughtfully--written, it will still be a pleasure to read."-Charles Moore "Every literate architect should take an afternoon off to read and ponder this brief and thoughtful and thoroughly engaging book. . . . Benedikt says more about some central aesthetic and philosophical issues confronting contemporary architecture than many celebrated pundits manage to squeeze into a shelfful of books. . . . He offers a straightforward account of his own struggle to understand the pleasures and responsibilities of architecture in an age when aesthetic pleasure is all but indiscernible from entertainment, and responsibility is often a cover for thoughtless conformity."-Roger Kimball, Architectural Record "Benedikt marches bravely into the philosophical thicket to find a working definition of reality. . . . In his sensibilities, he is quite transcendental, much like a Thoreau or an Emerson in a hotel lobby of potted ficus trees."-Howard Mansfield, Small Press ". . . the book of the decade in Texas architectural circles. . . "-Texas Architect