Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning (Icon Editions)

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This best-selling, illustrated survey of Western structure is now absolutely revised all through, explaining the constitution, functionality, historical past, and that means of structure in a fashion that's either available and fascinating. The long-awaited moment version comprises: new assurance on Postmodernism and its courting to the Modernist period; a reorganization of Mesopotamian and Prehistoric structure according to thematic traces of improvement; an improved bankruptcy on Medieval structure, together with advancements from the tip of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance; and an increased paintings application that incorporates over 500 photographs in black and white and colour. Understanding Architecture is still the one textual content within the box to check structure as a cultural phenomenon in addition to a creative and technological fulfillment with its simple, two-part constitution: (1) the weather of structure and (2) The historical past and which means of structure. complete, in actual fact written, reasonable, and available, Understanding Architecture is a vintage survey of Western architecture.

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