Research Catalog

Title

Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history / Hazel Conway and Rowan Roenisch.

Author

Conway, Hazel.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Roenisch, Rowan.

Description

xii, 266 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach. It explores architecture as a current practice in relation to its history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation, planning and the environment. It introduces issues of urbanism, feminism and ethnicity, concerns which are at the forefront of current debates on architecture.
• Its aim is to help people make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject. Lavishly illustrated, it will be of interest to students of architecture, architectural history, interior design, planning, leisure, and heritage and design. The full appendices include a glossary, suggestions for further reading and useful addresses.

Subjects

• Architecture and society
• Architecture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. What is architecture? -- 3. What is architectural history? -- 4. Function, space and the interior environment -- 5. Materials and construction -- 6. The exterior -- 7. Site and place -- 8. Styles and periods -- 9. Sources -- 10. Drawings, models and photographs.

ISBN

• 0415104653
• 0415104661 (pbk.)

LCCN

93047002

OCLC

• 29565589
• ocm29565589

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries