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List Price: $16.00Amazonaws.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $5.60 (35%)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 114
Fabric Type: 9780807064733
Legal Disclaimer: 0807064734
Maximum Color Depth: Beacon Press
Metal Type: Beacon Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 288
Total External Bays Free: April 01, 1994
Total Firewire Ports: Beacon Press
Total Parallel Ports: April 01, 1994
Beacon Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780807064733
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.
Product Description:
The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces.
"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."
—from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe
6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback
Average Rating: 
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I purchased this book to further my appreciation of architecture and was disappointed to discover this book only frustrates. I enjoy creative use of language to convey thoughts and ideas, however I feel this book fails to communicate much of anything other than disorganized emotions. I can best compare my experience reading this book to listening to the logic and argument of a 4 year old -only with bigger words.
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I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book was almost incomprehensible. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I can't read the original and compare them, but I suspect it is the translation, which appeared a bit stilted and unnatural (similar to translations of Frederick Bastiat's The Law, or Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, both of which were oddly worded, although easily readable, and Bastiat wrote more than 150 years ago).
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I don't get why this is the bible of architects. Its boring as hell. Sure people are affected by the spaces they inhabit for various conditioning reasons. OK thats obvious but do I need to read a whole book written in pompous philospeak to learn that.
Honestly I put it down half way. Too boring and too many other things to read. Life is short.
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Book itself was in great condition, and was waiting at home for me sooner than expected.
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This book is hardly new, but Bachelard's analysis of the psychology of space remains as fascinating and lyrical as when it was first published. I've recommended this book to artists and sculptors and students over the years, and they in turn recomend it to others. Bachelard went on to write a book on the poetics of reverie and the "psychoanalysis of fire" but his book on space remains the most readable and the most genuinely poetic.
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