TY - BOOK AU - Amanda C. Roth Clark & Leland M. Roth TI - Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning SN - 978-0637724658 AV - NA2500 .R68 1993 1 U1 - 720.1 PY - 1993/// CY - New York, PB - Icon Editions N1 - 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 ER -