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Architecture For Dummies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780764553967

  • ISBN10:

    0764553968

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-06-28
  • Publisher: For Dummies

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Summary

When is a building just a building and when is it art? This accessible guide cuts through the jargon and clearly explains the essentials of architecture, demystifying the incredible ways in which structures and spaces come alive. You'll gain a real appreciation for architecture and the confidence to talk about it-even to an architect. Just the essential information for readers on the go who want to understand architecture. Covers the highlights of architectural history, from the Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. Explains how to look at a building and appreciate it. Explains when a building's a building and when it's art. Part of Tens includes Ten Great Architectural Masterpieces, Ten Biggest Architectural and Engineering Failures, Ten of the Most Interesting Architects Working Today, and more.

Author Biography

<B>Debra K. Dietch</B> is an architecture and design critic who writes for major newspapers and magazines. She is the former editor-in-chief of <I>Architecture Magazine</I> and former executive editor of <I>Architecture Record</I>.

Table of Contents

Foreword xxvii
Introduction 1(6)
Part I: Knowing and Appreciating Architecture 7(30)
Knowing When a Building Is Just a Building and When It's Architecture
9(6)
How to Look at a Building
15(12)
Building Your Architectural Vocabulary
27(10)
Part II: Nuts and Bolts: Looking at How Architecture Is Designed and Built 37(34)
How Buildings Are Born
39(8)
Just What Do Architects Do, Anyway?
47(14)
A Simple Structure: How Buildings Stand Up
61(10)
Part III: Western Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures 71(122)
Gimme Shelter: Prehistoric Structures and the Ancient World
73(12)
Acropolis Now: Classical Greece and Rome
85(14)
Domes, Arches, and Vaults, Oh My: Byzantine and Medieval Architecture
99(14)
Beauty Meets Mathematics and Drama: From Renaissance to Rococo
113(14)
Revivals Everywhere: The Classical and Gothic Are New Again
127(14)
Here Comes the Industrial Age: Prefab Is Here to Stay
141(8)
Flying High and Close to the Sun: Skyscrapers!
149(12)
Mother Nature versus the Machines: Modern styles
161(16)
The Only Constant Is Change: From Modern Purism to Postmodern Pluralism
177(16)
Part IV: Eastern Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures 193(32)
China and Japan: Traditions in Wood
195(10)
More Than the Taj Mahal: Architecture in India
205(12)
The Islamic World
217(8)
Part V: Arranging the Present and Saving the Past 225(28)
Understanding Urban Design
227(16)
Historic Preservation: Saving the Past for the Future
243(10)
Part VI: The Part of Tens 253(34)
The Ten Most Fascinating Architects Working Today
255(8)
Ten Architectural Masterpieces
263(8)
Ten Amazing Items of Trivia That'll Impress All Your Friends!
271(8)
The Top Ten Skyscrapers
279(8)
Index 287

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