Rowan Moore: 3 books
Why We Build
Power and Desire in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.
We are living in the most dramatic...
Slow Burn City
London in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With a new introduction for the paperback.
London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.
London...
Go Tell the Crocodiles
Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Timeliness: Once considered Africa’s success story, Mozambique is suddenly making international headlines over its unsustainable debt levels. The author is the only international journalist poised to comment on human impact of the global debt crisis as it plays out in this pivotal country.
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