How to read buildings : a crash course in architectural styles / Carol Davidson Cragoe.

Main entry:

Cragoe, Carol Davidson.

Title & Author:

How to read buildings : a crash course in architectural styles / Carol Davidson Cragoe.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 2008.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Building types -- A grammar of style -- Materials -- Columns & capitals -- Arches -- Roofs & gables -- Vaults -- Domes -- Towers -- Doors & porches -- Windows -- Stairways -- Chimneys & fireplaces -- Ornament.

Summary:

Explains how to decode a structure's style, history, and evolution by recognizing key designs clues, and provides overviews on how geography, history, and religion influenced architecture.

ISBN:

9780847831128 (pbk.)
0847831124 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Architecture Guides, manuels, etc.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Handbook
Nonfiction.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 308662
Call No.: BIB 254015
Status: Available

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