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9781851774364

Exploring Architecture Buildings, Meaning and Making

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  • ISBN13:

    9781851774364

  • ISBN10:

    185177436X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-10
  • Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

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"Exploring Architecture provides an entirely new approach to understanding our surroundings, examining how and why we respond to the built environment. Covering ancient and modern architecture from across the world, this beautifully illustrated book looks at the very essence of architecture, opening buildings up to our inspection and revealing what lies behind their design. It introduces the conceptual underpinnings of architecture and differs from other such books by adopting a thematic approach, dealing in turn with the functions, the meanings, the structure, and the social aspects of buildings. Architecture is an expression of our place in the world and our beliefs, and it excites us with its beauty and meaning.

Table of Contents

Preface 6(2)
Introduction 8(4)
Eleanor Gawne
Michael Snodin
St Paul's Cathedral
12(6)
Charles Hind
New York City
18(4)
Eleanor Gawne
Building for Function
22(40)
Michael Snodin
Sustainable architecture
34(10)
David Lloyd Jones
Traditional and modern houses
44(18)
Helen Thomas
The Art of Architecture
62(44)
Michael Snodin
Buildings with meaning
70(30)
Michael Snodin
Style and front doors
100(6)
Tanishka Kachru
Creating Buildings
106(40)
Eleanor Gawne
Spanning space
112(30)
Rob Wilson
Changing tools of the design process
142(4)
Neil Bingham
Buildings Together
146(35)
Eleanor Gawne
The planned and unplanned: from settlements to cities
150(20)
Rob Wilson
Trafalgar Square: creating the nation's square
170(11)
Gareth Williams
Picture credits 181(1)
Notes on contributors 181(1)
Timeline 182(4)
Further reading 186(2)
Index 188

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