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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780434664900 (0434664901)
Publish date: March 21st 1988
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This is a short book, written in a style as comfortable as its subject matter. I'm sure that Rybczynski is not the first person to have written on this subject; nonetheless, it's good to have a work for a popular audience that covers the deceptively simple-seeming idea : what is "hominess"? Although...
One of my earlier reads in architecture. Rybczynki writes so well.
One of those books I know I read right when it came out, and liked, and probably thought I'd noted on Goodreads, but apparently did not. I enjoy Rybczynski and should probably see what he's written since the last time I looked.