It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Essays on Architecture and Other Topics by Mikesch W. Muecke
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Essays on Architecture contains twelve texts (with illustrations) on a variety of topics that engage architecture, history, theory, philosophy, and popular culture. There are four thematic sections: Architecture & Mobility (academic tourism and literary readings of Rome; an architectural AutoBiography), Philosophy & Aesthetics (the figure of the collector in Walter Benjaminâs work; the idyll in 19th-century representations of interiors in Germany; the joints between beauty, ugliness, and caricature in the work of Karl Rosenkranz), Case Studies (Las Vegas and water management; Koolhaasâ design of Euralille; the history and theory of Princetonâs architecture building), and History, Theory, and Practice in Gottfried Semperâs Work (the effect of Semperâs ideas on architects in the US; two comparative design studies (Semper and Schinkel, Semper and Paxton); a detailed examination of Semperâs most unusual work, the Treichler laundry ship). A bibliography and index are included.
Essays on Architecture and Other Topics by Mikesch W. Muecke is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Essays on Architecture and Other Topics aloud.
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