Understanding Architecture: An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History / Edition 2

by Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415320580
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/2004
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch

Table of Contents

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