A Text-Book of the History of Architecture

by Alfred D.F. Hamlin

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Genres: Architecture

292 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. was an American architect, born at Istanbul, Turkey as the son of Cyrus Hamlin. He graduated at Amherst in 1875, studied architecture at Boston and Paris, and afterward began teaching architecture at Columbia in its School of Engineering. He was director from 1903 to 1912.

He wrote many articles in the professional magazines was the author of A textbook of the History of Architecture (1906). He was one of the men who collaborated to write European and Japanese Gardens (1902).

Reviews

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great introduction to architecture and very palatable for the average reader. Although the book had images and diagrams of some mentioned buildings, I kept my phone handy to look up other un-pictured buildings and terms I was unfamiliar with. I would say this book is only as good as you are interested in architecture/history.

[Juan Pablo García Estefan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Curiosamente eurocéntrico

Resultó entretenido leer un libro que tiene más de un siglo, sobre un tema que ha tenido tantos avances y generado tantas buenas obras en el siglo XX. Es interesante ver como ha evolucionado la historiografia de la arquitectura desde entonces.

La obra hace un recorrido por la historia pero el excesivo eurocentrismo del texto y los comentarios despectivos hacia algunos arquitectos o regiones llega a ser molesto para mi, como lector en pleno siglo XXI.

Hay muchas cosas de las que se tiene una idea distinta hoy en día, por lo que hay otras obras mucho mejores para leer sobre historia de la arquitectura. Sin embargo, como curiosidad no está mal darle una mirada.