Architectural Fashions And Planning Trends

21 February 2001 - 6:00am

An upcoming book by Witold Rybczynski, a professor of urbanism, discusses architectural fashions and recent trends in planning.

"The homes people live in evolved out of simple need or grand design, or both, then were inevitably polished by the urge to change. Buildings are subject to the same whims as last season's hemline, argues Witold Rybczynski in his upcoming, tenth book, "The Look of Architecture" ($25 hardcover, May 24, 2001, Oxford University Press), which compares architecture to fashion."

Source: MSNBC, February 20, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.