{"product_id":"spatial-memories-and-preoccupations-of-an-architect","title":"Spatial Memories And Preoccupations Of An Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow Does An Architect Become An Architect? In This Intimate And Playful Work Of Autobiography And Criticism, Turner Brooks Explores This Very Question, Mapping The Way His Childhood Impressions And Enthusiasms Later Influenced His AwardWinning Architectural Work.In Spatial Memories And Preoccupations, AwardWinning Architect Turner Brooks Describes How Memories Of Spatial ExperiencesA Small Child Occupying A FatherS Gigantic Overcoat, Lying Awake In A Tiny Bedroom In An Old House In Maine, Traversing The Soaring Concourse Of Grand Central StationEvolved Into A LifeLong Preoccupation With Architecture.BrooksS Emersonian Eye Considers The Kinetic Work Of Frank Furness In Philadelphia, John SoaneS PerceptionDefying Museum In London, And The Sublime Pyrotechnics Of Borromini In Rome And Baroque Palazzos In Sicily, As Well As The Experience Of Space In Books And Paintings, From Clement HurdS Illustrations For Good Night Moon To KafkaS The Burrow To Edward HopperS Room By The Sea.An Assignment In Architecture School, The Dominant VoidTo Construct A Space That Was More Palpable Than The Material Used To Define ItBecomes A Divining Rod For BrooksS Own Arresting, Intimate Designs.A Beautifully Written, Idiosyncratic, Moving Meditation In The Tradition Of Gaston Bachelard And Witold Rybczynski, Spatial Memories And Preoccupations Is A Revelation Of The Profoundly Personal Character Of The Architectural Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957957705973,"sku":"DADAXB0FFGCKJSK","price":28.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91fp21cC1GL.jpg?v=1775560508","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/spatial-memories-and-preoccupations-of-an-architect","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}