ISE Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture - Softcover

Fazio, Michael; Moffett, Marian; Wodehouse, Lawrence

 
9781265219499: ISE Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1265219494 ISBN 13: 9781265219499
Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2022

Synopsis

Buildings Across Time brilliantly explores the essential attributes of architecture by uniquely combining both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. Authors have searched out the stories these buildings have to tell, considered the intentions of the people who built them, and examined the lives of those who used them. 

The text contains extensive descriptive narrative leavened with focused critical analysis, which both allows the book to stand alone and invites lecturers to impose their studied interpretations on the material without the danger of undue ambiguity or conflict. In a world that grows smaller by the day, it presents a global perspective, and in a discipline that concerns built objects that are often beautiful as well as functional, it is copiously illustrated, intelligently designed, and consistently usable.

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Publisher
McGraw Hill
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1265219494
ISBN 13 
9781265219499
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
6
Number of pages
626