ABSTRACT

Understanding Architecture is the first comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history. It explores the experience of architecture in relation to its history and the wider context of cultures, conservation, planning and environmental issues. It introduces issues of urbanism, feminism and ethnicity, concerns which are at the forefront of current debates on architecture.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

What is architecture?

chapter 3|16 pages

What is architectural history?

chapter 5|27 pages

Materials and construction

chapter 6|27 pages

The exterior

chapter 7|20 pages

Site and place

chapter 8|25 pages

Styles and periods

chapter 9|17 pages

Sources

chapter 10|30 pages

Drawings, models and photographs