A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture's place in the contemporary moment.

"Architecture begins to matter", writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads". In Why Architecture Matters, he shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Guggenheim Bilbao. He eloquently describes the Church of...