Understanding Architecture: An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History - Softcover

Conway, Hazel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415320593 ISBN 13: 9780415320597

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a holistic approach to the subject of architecture.

Highly illustrated, this book enables the reader to make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject.

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About the Author

Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch

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Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its holistic approach. It explores the current practice of architecture in relation to its history and in relation to the issues that are significant today. This new edition looks at the implications of sustainability, at conservation, landscape, and urban regeneration. Its extended coverage includes China, the Middle East, India, Africa and other parts of the world.

Its aim is to help people make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by introducing some of the complexities of the subject.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415320593
• ISBN 13: 9780415320597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304