Samir Younes, Carroll William Westfall

Architectural Type and Character

A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781138584051
• ISBN-10: 1138584053
• Artikelnr.: 62573417

Autorenporträt

Samir Younés is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame where he was Director of Rome Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches architectural design and theory. His books include: The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgement; Architects and Mimetic Rivalry; The Intellectual Life of the Architect; and Quatremère de Quincy's Historical Dictionary of Architecture: The True, The Fictive, and The Real. Carroll William Westfall's PhD in the history of architecture from Columbia University was followed by five decades of teaching before retiring from the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly and general articles run from studies of Pompeii to critiques of current practice. His books are In This Most Perfect Paradise, a study of Rome in the 15th c.; Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, a dialectic exchange with Robert Jan van Pelt, and a review of architectural theory, Architecture, Liberty, and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond .

Inhaltsangabe

PART I 1. The History of Architecture We Have 2. The Alternative: Type,
Character, and Style 3. Urbanism 4. The Components and Types of Good Urban
Form PART II 5. The Tholos 6. The Temple 7. The Theatre 8. The Regia 9.
The Dwelling 10. The Shop 11. The Hypostyle