What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time; space; and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer; client; and citizen. By analyzing famous and everyday buildings while presenting and questioning the positions of important architects and theorists; this book will help you to evaluate and decide what qualities; ideas; and values you believe are important in architecture.Youll learn:-How various definitions of "architecture" establish different relationships with all buildings; and even non-buildings;-How buildings express and accommodate ideas of the sacred; the family; and the community;-What an architect is; and what priorities they bring to design and construction;-How an architectrsquo;s expertise relates to that of the engineer; and why these are distinct disciplines;-About values like beauty; originality; structural expression; and cultural memory and their purpose in architectural design;-About the interests and ethical values that architects; and architecture; serves and promotes.Topics include sacred spaces; the house; the city; architects and engineers; aesthetics and design; originality and method; technology and form; memory and identity; and power and politics.
2015-07-17 2015-07-17File Name: B011WKPTG6
Review
