{"product_id":"eccentric-spaces-isbn-9780262581837","title":"Eccentric Spaces","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all of Robert Harbison's works, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments—these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its original publication in 1977, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e... makes me want to rush out in every direction at once and reexamine all I have ever seen. You can hardly ask a book to do more than that.—\u003cb\u003eAnatole Broyard\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e—Robert Harbison has lectured widely on architecture at the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University, and the Architectural Association, London. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces, Deliberate Regression,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePharaoh's Dream.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305321517285,"sku":"NP9780262581837","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/eccentric-spaces-isbn-9780262581837","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}