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About the product 24.0 x 17.0cms, 542pp, 535 b/w illusts, fine hardback&dustwrapper This book presents architetcure as a cultural phenomenon (as well as an artistic&architetcural achievement). The chapters are: how does the building function; how does the building stand-up; space in architecture; seeing architectue; architectural acoustics, shape&sound; from high preist to porfessional; architeure as part of the environment; architecture, memory&economics; the invention fo architecture; Egyptian architecture; Greek architecture; Roman architecture; early Christian&Byzantine architecture; early Medieval architecture; Gothic architecture; Renaissance&mannerist architecture; Baroque&Rococo architecture; the age of the Enlightenment; the 19th cntury; the early 20th century; the late 20th century.Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History&Meaning (Books)