{"product_id":"architecture-and-modern-life-w-r-lethaby","title":"Architecture and Modern Life, W.R. Lethaby","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-container\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-description-text\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmain role=\"main\" class=\"main-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"shopify-section\" id=\"shopify-section-product-template\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-stacked-layout=\"false\" data-enable-history-state=\"true\" data-image-zoom-type=\"true\" data-section-type=\"product-template\" data-section-id=\"product-template\" id=\"ProductSection--product-template\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\" itemscope=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid product-single\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid__item product-single__meta--wrapper medium--five-twelfths large--five-twelfths\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" class=\"product-single__description rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-description-text\"\u003e‘The house of the future will be designed as a ship is designed, as an organism which has to function properly in all its parts. A whole row of ambiguous words have come between us and the immediately given data of architecture. Design is not abstract power exercised by a genius, it is simply the arranging how work shall be well done.’\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eW.R. Lethaby\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e1857\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e1931\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas an architect and educator. Influenced by his friend William Morris, Lethaby’s writings mark a transitional point between the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e19\u003c\/span\u003eth and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e20\u003c\/span\u003eth centuries. Lethaby argues with foresight for an ‘efficiency style’ in architecture, for towns which cultivate vitality and against the science of ‘profit grinding and grabbing’. Lethaby suggests a vision of a modern world inspired by the efficiency of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e‘No one ever put the case for functionalism better than Lethaby did long before Le Corbusier’s manifestoes appeared.’ Lewis Mumford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/main\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Zegris\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e72 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e120 x 200 mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781838282141\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Zegris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55863661330763,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/files\/ZB_BOOK-INSTA_2507_001A4_1296x_047c41b0-2458-4161-930c-92344920d1bd.webp?v=1762620892","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/es\/products\/architecture-and-modern-life-w-r-lethaby","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}