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191 pages : 22 cm With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert Maxwell is a scholar known worldwide for critical writing that looks at modern and contemporary architecture in relation to our wider culture, including art, literature and music. A Few Years of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life brings together a collection of over 30 of Maxwell's writings from the late twentieth century to the present, through which are woven events and occasions from his own diary that expand on debates in the world of architecture throughout the period. Texts include "Richard Rogers: an Evaluation", first published in Casabella in February 1994; "Sounds and Sweet Airs at Stuttgart", a review of the Music School at Stuttgart, in the RIBA Journal in October 1996; an obituary of Philip Johnson in The Architectural Review, in March 2005; and "Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture", in Building Design in September 2006. This engaging collection, at once intimate and autobiogr

Author

Robert Maxwell; Anthony Vidler

Publisher

London: Artifice Books on Architecture

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908967077

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14