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Forms, Forces, Functions: Essays on Architecture and Planning (ekphrasis)
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Forms, Forces, Functions
Denise Scott Brown is a preeminent figure in twentieth-century architecture and urban planning, but her influence extends far beyond these fields. Her groundbreaking, deeply humanist approach to design considers the built environment as a shared, lived-in space, shaped by cultural, social, and historical structures and forces. She is widely known for her seminal 1972 text Learning from Las Vegas, coauthored with her partner, Robert Venturi, which gave form to knowledge that fundamentally changed how we understand the spaces we inhabit. Scott Brown’s writing, like her architecture, is eclectic, witty, and compelling, drawing upon theory and her own life experiences to reorient our attention toward the needs of everyday people.
This new addition to David Zwirner Books’s ekphrasis series brings together approximately ten essays by Scott Brown that exemplify her spirit of inquiry. Together, these essays offer us an invitation to really see and think—and then to act through writing, designing, and building. An introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan situates these essays within Scott Brown’s extraordinary career and underscores their continued relevance today as we seek to both determine and grasp the unfolding new worlds around us.
The first title in the ekphrasis series to focus on the built environment, this volume expands the series’ driving inquiry into reading the social, cultural, and architectural landscapes around us with renewed attention.
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- Publisher
- David Zwirner Books
- Author
- Denise Scott Brown
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- May 25, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781644231937
- ISBN-10
- 164423193X
- Pages
- 128
- Carton quantity
- 50 copies
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