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Architecture : a very short introduction / Andrew Ballantyne.

By: Ballantyne, Andrew [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Very short introductions: 72Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: 134 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780192801791 (paperback); 0192801791.Subject(s): ArchitectureDDC classification: 720
Contents:
1. Buildings have meaning -- 2. Growth of the Western tradition -- 3. How buildings become great.
Summary: "This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant garde. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day." - Publisher's description.
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This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127) and index.

1. Buildings have meaning -- 2. Growth of the Western tradition -- 3. How buildings become great.

"This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant garde. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day." - Publisher's description.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Adding Value: how buildings become architecture
  • 2 Architectural Heritage: how buildings tell us who we are
  • 3 Architectural Canons: how architecture achieves greatness
  • Further Reading

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Andrew Ballantyne qualified and practised as an architect, and then moved into academic work. He has held research and teaching posts at the universities of Sheffield, Bath, and Newcastle, where he is now Professor of Architecture. He has written on architectural history and theory, and his previous books are Architecture, Landscape and Liberty (CUP, 1997) and What is Architecture? (Routledge, 2002).
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