Why are buildings designed as they are? Where do architects get their ideas? This book has the answers to all of your questions about architecture. Assuming no previous architectural knowledge, the book: outlines lives & works of the key players; separates architecture from building; explains architectural styles & movements; & includes a glossary of terms & techniques. This is an illustrated guided tour around the world's architectural heritage, stopping off to view majestic creations that have stood the test of time, & awesome failures. The book tells you how styles developed, why architects do the things they do, & how the designers of the present learn (or often don't) the lessons of the past. Profusely illustrated.

Architecture: A Crash Course

Arts & Photography

Hilary French

Architecture

Watson-Guptill Pub.

Vanishing Borders: Protecting the planet in the age of globalization (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Routledge

<p>Architecture, someone said, is frozen music. and some people would say that the best thing you could do with most architecture is melt it down and start again. Why are buildings designed as they are! Where do architects get their ideas? And why do so many of those ideas strike the rest of us as sheer lunacy? Architecture-A crash Course has the answers.*Assumes no previous architectural knowledge.*outlines lives and works of the key players* separates architecture from building*explains architectural styles and movements*includes a glossary of terms and techniques.</p>

Architecture a Crash Course

History & Criticism

Raincoast Book Distribution

The design of multiple housing – a new building type, especially for growing urban populations – was a major new area of activity for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one that continues into the twenty-first century. This book features some ninety of the most influential modern housing designs of the last hundred years by some of the best-known architects in the field. Each project is explained with a concise text and photographs and specially created scale drawings, including floor plans and site plans, sections and elevations where appropriate. The projects are organized in six roughly chronological chapters tracing the history of both public and private housing around the world. The detailed drawings allow each project to be analyzed in depth, which, alongside the author’s authoritative text, will make this an invaluable resource for architects and students. As an added bonus, the book includes a CD-ROM containing digital files of all the drawings featured in the book. 150 color photographs; 500 line drawings

Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

Laurence King Publishing

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