Author: Saggio Antonino
Place: USA
Year: 2014
Pages: 197
ISBN: 978-1-291-00541-7
Subject: Housing
Sub-Subject: Affordable Housing
Keyword: Housing
Shelf: C6R6
Accession No: B1211
Contents: Forensityord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: As one walks the streets of the Philadelphia, Sauer’s buildings stand out for the masterly way he calibrates architectural composition and the varied playfulness of his solutions which, through a complex body of intuitively defined rules, one will find the very essence of Sauer’s field of action where he interprets the reality of the setting and its surroundings. This book, then, is an enjoyable, lively read, because it proposes a profoundly democratic architecture that opens individuals’ minds, leaves room to the end-user’s aesthetic sensibility and presupposes a curious, imagining heart…a aFrom the Preface by P. C. Pignatelli L. Sauer, born 1928, FAIA, Hon FRAIA, is an architect, professor and design theorist. Extensive projects have been built in the U.S.A. and Canada where his work is an example of planning and design originality. A. Saggio (1955) teaches Architecture at “Sapienza” University (Rome). He is the founder of the book series “The IT Revolution in Architecture”