Understanding Architecture - 2nd Edition

Informationen zum Autor Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch Klappentext A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a holistic approach to the subject of architecture. Highly illustrated, this book enables the reader to make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture in relation to history and the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction  2. Architecture and Building  3. Architectural History  4. Space and Function  5. Plans and Images  6. Materials and Construction  7. The Exterior  8. Styles and Periods  9. Site and Place  10. Sources

Product details

• Authors: Hazel Conway, Rowan Conway, Rowan Roenisch, Roenisch Rowan
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415320597
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32059-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ART / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building