Leland M. Roth, Amanda C. Roth Clark

Understanding Architecture

Its Elements, History, and Meaning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to the artistic urge that impels humans to build, as well as to the structural properties that enable buildings to stand up, exploring the pragmatic concerns of space, function, structure, and design of architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ingram Publisher ServicesBooks
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 816
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1677g
• ISBN-13: 9780813349039
• ISBN-10: 0813349036
• Artikelnr.: 38493681

Autorenporträt

Roth, Leland M. Clark, Amanda C. Roth

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I
The Elements of Architecture
1 Architecture: The Art of Shaping of Space
2 "Commoditie": Building Functions
3 "Firmeness": Structure, or How Does the Building Stand Up?
4 "Delight": Seeing Architecture
5 Architecture and Sound
6 Architecture: Part of the Natural Environment
7 The Architect: From High Priest to Profession
8 Architecture, Memory, and Economics
Part II
The History and Meaning of Architecture
9 The Beginnings of Architecture: From Caves to Cities
10 The Architecture of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
11 Greek Architecture
12 Roman Architecture
13 Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
14 Medieval Architecture
15 Renaissance Architecture
16 Baroque and Rococo Architecture
17 The Origins of Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1720
1790
18 The Roots of Modernism: The Nineteenth Century
19 Versions of Modern Architecture, 1914
1970
20 The Expansion of Modernism: From the Twentieth Century into the Twenty
First
21 Into the Twenty
First Century
Suggested Readings
Notes
Glossary
Index.