Architecture Inside-Out: Understanding How Buildings Work

by John Zukowsky, Robbie Polley (Illustrator)

Overview

Taking readers behind architecture's facades and finishes, this charmingly illustrated book explores how some of the most important buildings in the world were constructed. Specially commissioned isometric drawings present the essential structural elements of the world's masterpiece buildings that are not visible to the naked eye. These illustrations are displayed alongside plans, details, and photographs, all of which are clear and accessible, yet accurate and elegant enough to satisfy the most discerning eye.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789337009
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

John Zukowsky is an architectural and design historian with more than four decades of experience. While curator of architecture for the Art Institute of Chicago from 1978 to 2004, he organized a number of award-winning exhibitions accompanied by major books. He has recently authored Building Chicago: The Architectural Masterworks. Robbie Polley is an architectural illustrator with more than twenty-five years of experience. His drawings have been featured in thirty books.

Editorial Reviews

"A revealing new book rethinks the architecture tome—from the inside out...a tour de force... which seamlessly merges the visual and the written."
—Architectual Digest

"The author John Zukowsky and illustrator Rob Polley take a look at 50 famous structures in detail including amazing axonometric drawings showing how they were constructed." 
—Architect Design

"Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in tone, commentary, organization and presentation, "Architecture Inside-Out: Understanding How Buildings Work" is extraordinarily informative and will prove to be an enduringly popular and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community and academic library Architectural History collections and supplemental studies reading lists."
—Midwest Book Review

"A perfect introduction for how buildings work, with anecdotal prose and excellent drawings."
—Architects + Artisans

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