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Humanize : a maker's guide to designing our cities / Thomas Heatherwick.
Our world is losing its humanity. Too many companies care more about their shareholders than their employees or customers. Too many politicians care more about elections than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, designed for business, not for us. So where do we find hope? From one of the world's most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyone. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, Heatherwick takes us on a journey-full of vivid stories and hundreds of images-that will inspire us to see how we can make our world differently.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668034439 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 495 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. Human and inhuman places -- Human places -- The hundred-year catastrophe -- The anatomy of a catastrophe -- Part two. How the cult of boring took over the world -- What is an architect? -- Meet the god of boring -- How to (accidentally) start a cult -- Why does everywhere look like profit? -- Part three. How to re-humanize the world -- Changing how we think -- Elephants in the room -- Changing what we do -- (Likely to be) frequently asked questions -- Letter to the passer-by. |
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| Subject: | Architectural design. Architecture. Architecture > History and criticism. Design > History and criticism. Architecture > Social aspects. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Featuring hundreds of photographs and illustrations, one of the worldâs most renowned designers draws on thirty years of experience to offer ways to fix the inhumanity in most of our building designs. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
Featuring hundreds of photographs and illustrations, one of the world's most renowned designers draws on thirty years of experience to offer ways to fix the inhumanity in most of our building designs. - Simon and Schuster
From one of the worldâs most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyoneâfeaturing hundreds of photographs and illustrations that will change how you see the world around you.
We are living through a global catastrophe. Buildings affect how we feel, moment by moment, day by day. They have the power to lift us up and make us feel awestruck, playful, safe, and inspired, just as they can make us feel alienated and sad. But many of the places where we live, work, learn, and heal have become monotonous and disposable. Weâre surrounded by cheap, boring buildings that make people stressed, sick, and unhappy. In short, much of our world has been crafted in a way that is hostile to human experience.
Now, drawing on his experience of the last thirty years in making bold, beautiful objects and buildings, Thomas Heatherwick offers both an informed critique of the inhumanity in most of todayâs contemporary building design, and a rousing call for action. Looking through Heatherwickâs eyes, we see familiar landmarks and cityscapes around the world, from London, Paris, Barcelona, Singapore, New York, Vancouver, and beyond, both old and new, famous and obscure, to learn how places can either sap the life out of usâor nourish our senses and our psyche. The time has come, he says, to put emotion back at the heart of the design process, and the reasons to do so could not be more urgent. Design is not superficial: it has an impact upon economics, climate change, our mental and physical wellbeingâeven the peace and cohesion of our societies.
As citizens and users, we need a world full of architectural diversity that delights and unites us. And as makers and designers, we can help create a world where cities reconnect with their essential mission: to provide human spaces where people mix, meet, inspire each other, and live out their full potential.
Elegantly crafted by Heatherwickâs own studio, and fully illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white photos, Humanize is an urgent call-to-arms for making our world a better place for everyone to live, and provides the vision and tools for us to make it a reality.
