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Understanding architecture : its elements, history, and meaning

Author: Leland M Roth
Publisher: New York, NY : Icon Editions, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Roth, Leland M.
Understanding architecture.
New York, NY : Icon Editions, c1993
(OCoLC)643834100
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Leland M Roth
ISBN: 0064384934 9780064384933 0064301583 9780064301589
OCLC Number: 25632150
Description: xxxi, 542 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents: "Commoditie" : how does the building function? --
"Firmeness" : how does the building stand up? --
"Delight" : space in architecture --
"Delight" : seeing architecture --
"Delight" : architectural acoustics, shape, and sound --
The architect : from high priest to professional --
Architecture as part of the environment --
Architecture, memory, and economics --
The invention of architecture : from caves to cities --
Egyptian architecture --
Greek architecture --
Roman architecture --
Early Christian and Byzantine architecture --
Early medieval architecture --
Gothic architecture --
Renaissance and Mannerist architecture --
Baroque and Rococo architecture --
Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1720-1800 --
Architecture in the nineteenth century --
Early-twentieth-century architecture : the perfection of utility --
Late-twentieth-century architecture : a question of meaning.
Responsibility: Leland M. Roth.
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