Amanda C. Roth Clark & Leland M. Roth

Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning - New York, Icon Editions, 1993 - xxxi, 542 p.

Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part structure: The Elements of Architecture and the History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive and clearly written, Understanding Architecture is both a primer for visual environmental literacy and a classic survey of architecture. This is an essential book for anyone interested in our built environment and the layered historical meaning embodied within it.


978-0637724658

NA2500 .R68 1993 / 1

720.1 / 1