About this title: "ABC of Architecture" is an accessible, nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. Author James F. O'Gormon moves seamlessly from a discussion of the most basic inspiration for architecture (the need for shelter from the elements), to an exploration of space, system, and material, and, finally, to an examination of the language and history of architecture. He shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans, sections, and elevations, and how architects, like other artists, make creative use of space and light.
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Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780812216318ISBN:0812216318
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780812216318ISBN:0812216318
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780812216318ISBN:0812216318
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13:9780812234237ISBN:0812234235
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780812216318ISBN:0812216318
Description: New. While human needs for shelter, comfort, and beauty haven't changed, the buildings created in response to these needs have. In this primer on the art, science, and history of architecture, James F. O'Gorman proposes that there is a poetics to the ende... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13:9780812216318ISBN:0812216318
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