Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

By Lelant M. Roth | DIGITAL

It has become a classic reference text. This illustrated manual remains the only text of its kind to examine architecture as a cultural, artistic, and technological phenomenon through a dual approach: the thematic, which addresses the elements of architecture, and the historical, which focuses on its temporal development and meaning.

A comprehensive, accessible, and enjoyable text, with a clear and basic character, which, thanks to its rigorous selection of examples and judicious comparisons, becomes a manual of extremely high educational value, ideal for beginners in the complexity of the fundamental concepts and dimensions of the history of architecture.