Architecture
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TextSeries: Very short introductionPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002Description: 152 6.9 x 0.4 x 4.2 inchesISBN: - 9780192801791
- VSCL BAL
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Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3E | VSCL/BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00771 |
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| MISC/TEZ Ayako | MISC/VER Strange Worlds! Strange Times! Amazing Sci-Fi Stories | VSCL/ADH Rabindranath Tagore: His World Of Art | VSCL/BAL Architecture | VSCL/BEC Thinking in Thin Air | VSCL/BER Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps | VSCL/BHA Delirious City: Polity and vanity in urban India |
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.
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