A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects

Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture's engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he created designs that privileged place and the daily rituals in the lives of its inhabitants over universal ideals. In this volume, enlivened by 300 illustrations from the Aldo van Eyck...

Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for design, and the quality of that experience is the only appropriate means of evaluating a work after it has been built.
McCarter reveals that we can t really know a piece of architecture without inhabiting its spaces, and we need to counter our contemporary obsession with exterior...

These seventy-five works are the harvest of seventeen years of exploration from our office in San Francisco.