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Understanding Architecture
Its Elements, History, and Meaning
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This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Significant features of the third edition include:
- Increased global coverage, with new essays on Africa, Japan, China, India, Islamic architecture, and the architecture of the Americas.
- A new chapter covering twenty-first century architecture.
- Updated coverage of sustainable and green architecture and its impact on design.
- Revised historical survey and expanded and illustrated timeline.
- Thoroughly revised and expanded art program, including more than 650 black and white images135 new to this edition, and more than 200 line art drawings created by author Leland Roth. A new 32-page, full color insert features more than 50 new color images.
Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part structure: The Elements of Architecture and The History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive and clearly written, Understanding Architecture is a classic survey of architecture.
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- Dec 24, 2013
- Page Count
- 816 pages
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780813349039
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