For An Architecture of Reality, by Michael Benedikt (Lumen Books, 1987), explores the “realness” of the aesthetics in contemporary architecture.
There are valued times in almost everyone’s experience when the world is perceived afresh: perhaps after a rain as the sun glistens on the streets and windows catch a departing cloud, or, alone, when one sees again the roundness of an apple. At these times our perceptions are not at all sentimental. They are, rather, matter of fact, neutral and undesiring – yet suffused with an unreasoned joy at the simple correspondence of appearance and reality, at the evident rightness of things as they are. It is as thought the sound and feel of a new car door closing with a kerchunk! were magnified and extended to dwell in the look, sound, smell, and feel of all things.
– Michael Benedikt, For An Architecture of Reality (Lumen Books, 1987), p.2
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings except for some price markings on the first flyleaf. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear.
