Rice's Architectural Primer - Hardcover

Rice, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747597480 ISBN 13: 9780747597483

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

RICE S ARCHITECTURAL PRIMER covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman castles to Norman Foster. Its aim is to enable the reader to recognise, understand and date any British building. As Matthew Rice says, Once you can speak any language, conversation can begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish. The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar about it. RICE S ARCHITECTURAL PRIMER will explain the language of architecture. With it in your hand, pocket or car, buildings will break down beguilingly into their component parts, ready for inspection and discussion. There will be no more references to that curly bit on top of the thing with the square protrusions. Ungainly and inept descriptions will be a thing of

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Rice is a writer and illustrator who thought he knew lots about British architecture until he started to write and illustrate this book. His message to readers is, if you want to understand a building, sit in front of it and draw it. You might also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater's pottery. He lives in Oxford and Norfolk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747597480
• ISBN 13: 9780747597483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240