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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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What architecture means-front cover; what architecture means; title page; copyright; contents; acknowledgments; preface; notes; introduction: what is "architecture"?; selective definitions of architecture; a "universal" definition; buildings, or not?; real non-buildings; vocabulary; study and review questions; note; further reading; part i: where is architecture?: divinity, domesticity, community; chapter 1: sacred spaces; reading stones: prehistoric design; stonehenge: geometry, orientation, and meaning; the acropolis: stories in stone; artificial mountains: pyramids and barriers |
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Hinduism and the templebuddhist shrines: the stupa and pagoda; judaism: housing one god and his people; christianity: congregation to building; church as miracle: hagia sophia and the gothic; protestantism: meeting house to megachurch; islam: monuments, mosques, and mausoleums; contesting sacred spaces; vocabulary; study and review questions; application and discussion exercises; further reading; chapter 2: the house; the greco-roman courtyard house; town and country: villa and palazzo; villas abroad: britain and the american south; democracy, health, and the urban tenement |
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The right kind of housewoman's world and suburban dreamscapes; house and market; postwar expansion and limits; dream houses; vocabulary; study and review questions; application and discussion exercises; note; further reading; chapter 3: the city; safety, space, and the grid; the castrum plan; disorder, diagrams, and the ideal city; remaking rome; a "new" london?; ideal cities in america; haussmann's paris: the power of elegance; cerdà : cities for all; urban order vs. urban pleasure: sitte; diagrammatic non-cities: howard, ciam, and the suburb; urbanizing the automotive city; a new new york |
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Jacobs: theory, reality, and activismvocabulary; study and review questions; application and discussion exercises; note; further reading; part ii: who makes architecture?: builders, professionals, artists; chapter 4: the architect; architecture's oldest signature: imhotep; the greek architect: name, myth, and builder; architecture's oldest book: vitruvius; balanced and well-rounded: the vitruvian architect; six elements, three departments, one triad, and ingenium; cities and the vitruvian legacy; medieval master builders; towers, domes, and tuscan craftsman builders |
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Alberti: ancient architecture, modern missionnew and better: alberti's de re aedificatoria; books, pictures, and architects; new weapons, new cities: fortification design; france: army engineers and building bureaucracies; academies, schools, and the value of design; american architects; industrial materials and the building revolution; le corbusier: architects and engineering methods; academy of the modern: the bauhaus; vocabulary; study and review questions; application and discussion exercises; notes; further reading; chapter 5: aesthetics; greek standards, roman conquerors, and the orders |
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Doric: simplicity and evolution |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315816944 |
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1315816946 |
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