Why architecture matters /
Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architec...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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Series: | Why X matters.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Meaning, culture, and symbol
- Ch. 2. Challenge and comfort
- Ch. 3. Architecture as object
- Ch. 4. Architecture as space
- Ch. 5. Architecture and memory
- Ch. 6. Buildings and time
- Ch. 7. Buildings and the making of place
- Glossary
- A note on bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration credits
- Index.