Architecture : A Very Short Introduction (A Complete Translation)
Ballantyne, Andrew | Oxford University Press
12,700원 | 20021219 | 9780192801791
This guide intends to help us understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us.
Andrew Ballantyne qualified and practised as an architect, and then moved into academic work. He has held research and teaching posts at the universities of Sheffield, Bath, and Newcastle, where he is now Professor of Architecture. He has written on architectural history and theory, and his previous books are Architecture, Landscape and Liberty (CUP, 1997) and What is Architecture? (Routledge, 2002).
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant garde.Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.
1. Adding Value: how buildings become architecture 2. Architectural Heritage: how buildings tell us who we are 3. Architectural Canons: how architecture achieves greatness Further reading
'a densely fascinating guide'Steven Poole, The Guardian Review
'an excellent introduction to architecture ... one to recommend tostudents, friends and family, which is quite an achievement!'Robert Tavernor, University of Bath
'There is really no better book out there. Ballantyne is a beautifulstylist, and the book combines intellegence with a completely beguiling wruterlystyle.'Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
'will justify the ambition of every young and aspiring architect - butwill also stimulate anyone at all curious about buildings ... Clear andjargon-less it shows how all buildings - good, bad and indifferent - are thetruest indicators of the state of a society and of its culture.'Joseph Rykwert, University of Pennsylvania
