Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
SKU: 0192801791
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ISBN: 9780192801791

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19 Dec, 2002

By Andrew Ballantyne (Author)

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids t...

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ISBN-10:

0192801791

ISBN-13:

9780192801791

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

No.of Pages

152

Dimensions

7.16 X 4.44 X 0.38 inches

Description

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0192801791

ISBN-13

: 9780192801791

Publisher

: Oxford University Press, USA

Publication date

: 19 Dec, 2002

About the Author

Andrew Ballantyne qualified and practised as an architect, and then moved into academic work. He has held research and teaching posts at the universities of Sheffield, Bath, and Newcastle, where he is now Professor of Architecture. He has written on architectural history and theory, and his previous books are Architecture, Landscape and Liberty and What is Architecture?.