Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Ballantyne, Andrew

 
9780192801791: Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192801791 ISBN 13: 9780192801791
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2002

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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 in favour of giving 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. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 (CUP, 1997) and What is Architecture? (Routledge, 2002).

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192801791
ISBN 13 
9780192801791
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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