Exploring Architecture, Buildings Meanings and Making
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Architecture plays a key role in shaping our environment. Covering
ancient and modern architecture from across the world, this book
examines its very essence in a new way, opening buildings up to reveal
what lies behind their design. It introduces the ideas that underpin the
concept of architecture, adopting a thematic approach that deals in
turn with the functions, the meanings, the structural and the social
aspects of buildings. Architecture is an art, expressing most clearly
the values of its age, as in the great cathedrals of the middle ages or
the corporate headquarters of today. Buildings work directly on our
emotions, filling us with awe or serenity; they also help us to organize
our crowded lives. Architecture is an expression of our place in the
world, our environment and our beliefs.This book explores the aesthetics
and techniques of architecture, tracing its response to new ways of
living, new developments in technology, new environmental concerns.
Lavishly illustrated, based on the unequalled architectural resources of
the RIBA and V&A, it is structured in four sections: Buildings and
functions; Architecture as art; Creating Buildings; and Buildings
Together (in cities and towns). The result is an original and
stimulating book: a refreshingly contemporary approach for the new
century.
Author/Artist/Designer
Eleanor Gawne and Michael SnodinPages
192 pages
Dimensions
26.8 x 21.2 x 1.6 cm
ISBN
9781851774357
Product code
69133
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