Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning

by Leland M. Roth

This best-selling, illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, explaining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in a way that is both accessible and engaging. The long-awaited second edition new coverage on Postmodernism and its relationship to the Modernist era; a reorganization of Mesopotamian and Prehistoric architecture based on thematic lines of development; an expanded chapter on Medieval architecture, including developments from the end of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance; and an expanded art program that includes over 500 images in black and white and color. Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part (1) The Elements of Architecture and (2) The History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive, clearly written, affordable, and accessible, Understanding Architecture is a classic survey of Western architecture.

Genres: Architecture, History, Nonfiction, Art, Design, Reference, School

696 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Alvaro Arcos]

Leland Roth, hace un recuento al mejor estilo de Ernst Gombrich en la Historia del arte, pero en este caso el énfasis es sobre la historia de la arquitectura, un libro clave para acabar la dicotomía académica entre la historia y el desarrollo del proyecto arquitectónico.

[Sofía Martín]

De las mejores lecturas de arquitectura.
Para principiantes, para avanzados en la carrera y para arquis.
Un libro realmente completo y de gran valor para mí. Si tienen la oportunidad, léanlo (si les gusta la historia, claro) <3