Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

Roth, Leland M.

ISBN 10: 0064384934 / ISBN 13: 9780064384933

Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1993

About this Item

8vo, 542 pp.

Seller Inventory # 115797

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
• Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064384934
• ISBN 13: 9780064384933
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

This volume surveys all aspects of Western architecture. The first part covers definition, structure and function, and elements of design, with examples and illustrations from all periods. The second part is a chronological presentation of the major buildings, styles and architects from prehistory to the present. Leland M. Roth is the author of "Concise History of American Architecture" and "McKim, Mead and White, Architects".

About the Author

Leland M. Roth is Marion Dean Ross Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oregon at Eugene. He is the author of American Architecture: A History; A Concise History of American Architecture; McKim, Mead & White, Architects; and other works. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.