What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman\'s hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects\' low regard for the subject.
This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best Architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that detai.
But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture , he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts.
What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman\'s hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects\' low regard for the subject