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Humanize : A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities by Thomas Heatherwick (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101668034433
ISBN-139781668034439
eBay Product ID (ePID)20059013044
Product Key Features
Book TitleHumanize : a Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Criticism, Buildings / General, History / General
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Architecture
AuthorThomas Heatherwick
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight21.8 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-403246
Reviews"The new Leonardo of design." -- The Guardian "Inspiring, enlightening and provocative, Humanize arms us with a new way of seeing our built environment, and makes explicit what's at stake if we blindly accept the status quo." -- Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect "Thomas' humanity-centered imagination is brought to life through his buildings and designs. He challenges us all to see the world differently, in harmony with nature, for the better. Humanize is a look behind the scenes and into the mind of his creative genius." -- Tony Fadell, New York Times bestselling author of Build , iPod inventor, and Nest founder "Thomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that." -- Grayson Perry, author of The Descent of Man " Humanize is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now." --Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Course of Love
SynopsisFrom 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--featuring 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. We're 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 today's contemporary building design, and a rousing call for action. Looking through Heatherwick's 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 us--or 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 wellbeing--even 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 Heatherwick's 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., 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 imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. Though most of us sense that there is something seriously wrong with our cities, Thomas Heatherwick reveals just how bad it is. He offers us a fiercely passionate analysis of why we're surrounded by cheap, boring buildings that make people sick and unhappy, 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. Humanize is an urgent call to arms for making our world a better place for everyone to live, and it provides us with the tools to make it a reality.
LC Classification NumberNA2543.S6H43 2023
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