Architecture : a very short introduction

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Title:

Author:

Ballantyne, Andrew.

ISBN:

9780192801791

Personal Author:

Ballantyne, Andrew.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

134 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Series:

Very short introductions ; 72

Very short introductions ; 72.

Contents:

1. Buildings have meaning -- 2. Growth of the Western tradition -- 3. How buildings become great.

Abstract:

This guide intends to help us 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.

Subject Term:

Architecture.

Arquitectura.

Architecture. (OCoLC)fst00813346

Bouwkunst.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003267407-t.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2003267407-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003267407-d.html

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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.