We must strive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work the architect does. We cannot, however, go back to the old method of personally supervised handicrafts. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary people are doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. The individual was in fruitful contact with these things the anonymous houses were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably suitable comeliness. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author ranges over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence.At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the entire community tool part in forming the dwellings and implements they used. Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design.
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