Architecture of the Everyday

by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic fads. Architecture of the Everyday makes a plea for an architecture that is emphatically un-monumental, anti-heroic, and unconcerned with formal extravagance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568981147
• ISBN13: 9781568981147
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary