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Understanding Architecture
A new way of reading and understanding architecture
Robert McCarther, Juhani Pallasmaa
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Specifications
- Hardback
- English
- 270 x 208 mm, 10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in
- 448 pp
- 500 colour illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714848099
- ISBN-10: 0714848093
Overview
- A new way of reading and understanding architecture
- A personal tour of 72 significant buildings from the Pyramids and the Pantheon to the Sydney Opera House
- Accessible text and images enable readers to experience the buildings as if they were visiting them
- Each building is presented with a clear architectural plan and images that allow the reader to understand the project’s key features
- A perfect introduction to reading architecture and architectural drawings
About the author(s)
Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001, and Columbia University, among others.
McCarter has written for numerous international publications and his books include Louis I. Kahn; On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles; Frank Lloyd Wright plus Unity Temple and Fallingwater in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series.
Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers.
Pallasmaa is the author/editor of 24 books, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema and Encounters.
McCarter has written for numerous international publications and his books include Louis I. Kahn; On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles; Frank Lloyd Wright plus Unity Temple and Fallingwater in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series.
Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers.
Pallasmaa is the author/editor of 24 books, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema and Encounters.
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