UnitThreeWallsandBarriers课程.pptVIP

Unit Three Walls and Barriers Background of the Author The Author: Eugene Raskin US architect, playwright, composer: interests ranging from music and playwriting to architectural scholarship; adjunct professor at Columbia from 1936 to 1976; author of Architecturally Speaking, Sequel to Cities, and Architecture and People. Composer of hit song Those Were the Days, (from a Russian folk melody in 1968), hit No. 1 on the British charts and No. 2 on the American charts. died at 94 in Manhattan A wall is defined as a continuous and usually vertical and solid structure of stones, bricks, concrete