Architectural Type and Character
A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2022
272 pages
978-0-429-01379-9 (ISBN)
Description
Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide important material for appreciating buildings and guiding those who produce them. In current histories, a building is the product of a time, its form follows its function, irresistible influences produce it, and style, preferably novel, is its most important attribute. This book argues for an alternative.
Through a two-part structure, the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places.
Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand, analyze, and create buildings.
Through a two-part structure, the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places.
Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand, analyze, and create buildings.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
144 Halftones, black and white; 144 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-429-01379-9 (9780429013799)
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Samir Younes | Carroll William Westfall
Architectural Type and Character
A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture
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Samir Younes | Carroll William Westfall
Architectural Type and Character
A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture
Book
01/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Samir Younes is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame where he was Director of Rome Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches architectural design and theory. His books include: The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgement; Architects and Mimetic Rivalry; The Intellectual Life of the Architect; and Quatremere de Quincy's Historical Dictionary of Architecture: The True, The Fictive, and The Real.
Carroll William Westfall's PhD in the history of architecture from Columbia University was followed by five decades of teaching before retiring from the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly and general articles run from studies of Pompeii to critiques of current practice. His books are In This Most Perfect Paradise, a study of Rome in the 15th c.; Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, a dialectic exchange with Robert Jan van Pelt, and a review of architectural theory, Architecture, Liberty, and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond.
Carroll William Westfall's PhD in the history of architecture from Columbia University was followed by five decades of teaching before retiring from the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly and general articles run from studies of Pompeii to critiques of current practice. His books are In This Most Perfect Paradise, a study of Rome in the 15th c.; Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, a dialectic exchange with Robert Jan van Pelt, and a review of architectural theory, Architecture, Liberty, and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond.
Content
PART I 1. The History of Architecture We Have 2. The Alternative: Type, Character, and Style 3. Urbanism 4. The Components and Types of Good Urban Form PART II 5. The Tholos 6. The Temple 7. The Theatre 8. The Regia 9. The Dwelling 10. The Shop 11. The Hypostyle
