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How to read buildings : a crash course in architectural styles / Carol Davidson Cragoe.
LIBRA NA2550 .C73 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cragoe, Carol Davidson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, 2008.
- Summary:
- How to Read Buildings is a practical primer to looking at and appreciating architecture. It is a guide to reading the historical and architectural clues that are embedded in every building. Small enough to carry in your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, this comprehensive guide: explores key characteristics of structures dating from every period from the ancient Greeks to the present day, gives expert advice on how to identify any building and put it in historical context, provides an accessible visual guide, using detailed engravings and text, to architectural styles and structural elements.
- Contents:
- Building Types 10
- A Grammar of Style 22
- Materials 48
- Columns & Capitals 74
- Arches 88
- Roofs & Gables 102
- Vaults 120
- Domes 132
- Towers 142
- Doors & Porches 156
- Windows 176
- Stairways 200
- Chimneys & Fireplaces 216
- Ornament 228.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780847831128
- 0847831124
- OCLC:
- 166358686
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