Exploring architecture : buildings, meaning, and making / Eleanor Gawne, Michael Snodin.
By: Gawne, Eleanor
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Contributor(s): Snodin, Michael.
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BookPublisher: London : V&A Publications, 2004Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 185177436X .Other title: Buildings, meaning and making.Subject(s): ArchitectureDDC classification: 720
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 720 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00056014 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Architecture is an art, expressing most clearly the values of its age, as in the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages or the corporate headquarters of today. Buildings work directly on our emotions, filling us with awe or serenity; they also help us to organise our crowded lives. Architecture is an expression of our place in the world, our environment and our beliefs.
This book explores the aesthetics and techniques of architecture, tracing its response to new ways of living, new developments in technology, new environmental concerns. Lavishly illustrated, based on the unequalled architectural resources of the RIBA and V&A, it is structured in four sections- Buildings and Functions; Architecture as Art; Creating Buildings; and Buildings Together (in cities and towns). The result is an original and stimulating book- a refreshingly contemporary approach for the new century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Michael Snodin is the author of numerous books & the Head of the Designs Section in the Department of Prints, Drawings, & Paintings at the Victoria & Albert Museum.(Bowker Author Biography)