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Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history
- Title
- Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history / Hazel Conway and Rowan Roenisch.
- Author
- Conway, Hazel.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roenisch, Rowan.
- Description
- xii, 285 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its holistic approach. It explores the current practice of architecture in relation to its history and in relation to the issues that are significant today. This new edition looks at the implications of sustainability, at conservation, landscape, and urban regeneration. Its extended coverage includes China, the Middle East, India, Africa and other parts of the world." "Its aim is to help people make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by introducing some of the complexities of the subject."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Architecture and building -- Architectural history -- Space and function -- Drawings and models -- Materials and construction -- The exterior -- Styles and periods -- Site and place -- Sources.
- ISBN
- 0415320585
- 9780415320580
- 0415320593
- 9780415320597
- 0203238230
- 9780203238233
- LCCN
- 2004009647
- OCLC
- ocm55044568
- 55044568
- SCSB-13580346
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library