Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Ballantyne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-280179-1 (ISBN)

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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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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).

1. Adding Value: how buildings become architecture ; 2. Architectural Heritage: how buildings tell us who we are ; 3. Architectural Canons: how architecture achieves greatness ; Further reading

Reihe/Serie	Very Short Introductions
Zusatzinfo	25 halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	112 x 178 mm
Gewicht	127 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-19-280179-1 / 0192801791
ISBN-13	978-0-19-280179-1 / 9780192801791
Zustand	Neuware