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Cees Dam on architecture : visions and dreams /

According to Cees Dam, architecture is first and foremost a trade, one that has to be learned. It has a tradition from which it cannot break away, despite the fact that some architects really want to. Architecture is also an art form, a restrained and polluted art. The architect is meant to develop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dam, Cees, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2017.
Subjects:
Dam, Cees, > 1932- > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Dam, Cees, > 1932-
Architecture.
Architecture > Philosophy.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • C'est l'oeuvre qui compte
  • The future of architecture
  • The architect as genius
  • The interior: between detail and city
  • The beauty of the city
  • Has traditionalism been defeated?
  • On beauty
  • The high-rise: not power, but strength
  • Building the future
  • From concept to detail.