Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture

by Hubert Damisch

From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's "Blur" Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.

Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to "think architecture in a different key," as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528584
• ISBN13: 9780262528580
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher