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Understanding architecture : its elements, history, and meaning /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth, Leland M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Icon Editions/Westview Press, [1993]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Architecture.
Architecture > History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Commodities" : 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.