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Understanding architecture : its elements, history, and meaning / Leland M. Roth.

by Roth, Leland M.

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New York, NY : Westview Press, c1993.

Architecture -- History.

0064384934 (cloth) :

0064301583 (paper) :

xxxi, 542 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

"Commodities" : how does the building function? -- "Firmeness" : how does the building stand up? -- "Delight" : space in architecture -- "Delight" : seeing architecture -- "Delight" : architectural acoustics, shape, and sound -- The architect : from high priest to professional -- Architecture as part of the environment -- Architecture, memory, and economics -- The invention of architecture : from caves to cities -- Egyptian architecture -- Greek architecture -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian and Byzantine architecture -- Early medieval architecture -- Gothic architecture -- Renaissance and Mannerist architecture -- Baroque and Rococo architecture -- Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1720-1800 -- Architecture in the nineteenth century -- Early-twentieth-century architecture : the perfection of utility -- Late-twentieth-century architecture : a question of meaning.

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