Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history
Conway, Hazel2005
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'Understanding Architecture' is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its holistic approach. It explores the current practice of architecture in relation to its history and in relation to the issues that are significant today. Acomprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a holistic approach to the subject of architecture.Highly illustrated,this book enables the reader to make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject.
Main title:
Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history / Hazel Conway and Rowan Roenisch.
Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2004.
Collation:
xii, 285 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Architecture and Building 3. Architectural History 4. Space and Function 5. Plans and Images 6. Materials and Construction 7. The Exterior 8. Styles and Periods 9. Site and Place 10. Sources
ISBN:
9780415320597 (pbk)9780415320580 (hbk)
Dewey class:
720
LC class:
NA2500
Language:
English
BRN:
297172