Rowan Moore Libros

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

This book features Nicholas Grimshaw's work from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, which includes some of Europe's most prestigious in Berlin he was planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he built on the success of his Financial Times printing plant with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which was completed to wide acclaim.

A behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life, methods and work of contemporary painter Jock McFadyen RA by architecture critic Rowan Moore, accompanied by 130 beautiful reproductions of the painter's work.

A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain. Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free.