Understanding Architecture Its Elements, History, and Meaning

Name: Understanding Architecture Its Elements, History, and Meaning
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ISBN: 9780813390451

ISBN-10: 0813390451

ISBN-13: 9780813390451

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Leland Roth

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List price: $74.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 696
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English



Introduction : architecture, the unavoidable art



"Commoditie" : how does the building function?



"Firmeness" : structure, or how does the building stand up?



"Delight" : space in architecture



"Delight" : seeing architecture



"Delight" : architectural acoustics, shapes, and sound



The architect : from high priest of profession



Architecture : part of the natural environment



Architecture, memory, and economics



The beginnings of architecture : from caves to cities



The architecture of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt



Greek architecture



Roman architecture



Early Christian and Byzantine architecture



Medieval architecture



Renaissance architecture



Barqoue and Rococo architecture



The origins of modernism : architecture in the age of enlightenment, 1720-1790



The development of modernism : the nineteenth century



Verisons of modern architecture, 1914-1970



Late-twentieth-century architecture : postmodernism