Here, Of All Places: The Pocket Lamp Of Architecture
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What happens when one of Britain's sharpest wits turns his eye to the entire sweep of architectural history? The result is Here, of All Places: The Pocket Lamp of Architecture, a brilliantly illustrated and wickedly entertaining guide to the built environment that chronicles the story of human shelter from ancient civilisations to the modern age. Incorporating his earlier celebrated works Homes Sweet Homes and Pillar to Post, as well as homes across the Atlantic, Osbert Lancaster presents a panoramic and irreverent survey of architectural styles, manners, and follies on both sides of the ocean, all brought to life through his own inimitable illustrations. Lancaster's genius lies in his rare ability to marry genuine architectural scholarship with a devastating comic sensibility, rendering the pretensions and peculiarities of each era with equal parts insight and wit. His draughtsmanship is as precise as his prose is pointed, making this volume an indispensable companion for anyone who has ever paused before a building and wondered — with admiration or horror — what on earth its creator was thinking. A work of enduring cultural significance, it remains as sharp and as pertinent today as when it first appeared, leaving the reader to ponder just what the architecture of our own age will look like to the satirist of the future.
Author: Osbert Lancaster
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, John Murray
Genre: Architecture
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What happens when one of Britain's sharpest wits turns his eye to the entire sweep of architectural history? The result is Here, of All Places: The Pocket Lamp of Architecture, a brilliantly illustrated and wickedly entertaining guide to the built environment that chronicles the story of human shelter from ancient civilisations to the modern age. Incorporating his earlier celebrated works Homes Sweet Homes and Pillar to Post, as well as homes across the Atlantic, Osbert Lancaster presents a panoramic and irreverent survey of architectural styles, manners, and follies on both sides of the ocean, all brought to life through his own inimitable illustrations. Lancaster's genius lies in his rare ability to marry genuine architectural scholarship with a devastating comic sensibility, rendering the pretensions and peculiarities of each era with equal parts insight and wit. His draughtsmanship is as precise as his prose is pointed, making this volume an indispensable companion for anyone who has ever paused before a building and wondered — with admiration or horror — what on earth its creator was thinking. A work of enduring cultural significance, it remains as sharp and as pertinent today as when it first appeared, leaving the reader to ponder just what the architecture of our own age will look like to the satirist of the future.