Main entry:

Dietsch, Deborah.

Title & Author:

Architecture for dummies / by Deborah K. Dietsch ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

Publication:

New York, NY : Wiley Pub., ©2002.

Description:

308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

--For dummies

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction -- PART I; KNOWING AND APPRECIATING ARCHITECTURE: Knowing when a building is just a building and when it's architecture -- How to look at a building -- Building your architectural vocabulary -- PART II: NUTS AND BULTS: LOOKING AT HOW ARCHITECTURE IS DESIGNED AND BUILT: How buildings are born -- Just what do architects do, anyway? -- A simple structure: how buildings stand up -- PART III: WESTERN ARCHITECTURE: A SURVEY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STRUCTURES: Gimme shelter: prehistoric structures and the ancient world -- Acropolis now: Classical Greece and Rome -- Domes, arches, and vaults, oh my: Byzantine and Medieval architecture --Beauty meets mathematics and drama: from renaissance to Rococo -- Revivals everywhere; the Classical and Gothic are new again -- Here comes the industrial age: prelab is here to stay -- Flying high and close to the sun: Skyscrapers! -- Mother nature versus the machines: modern styles -- The only constant is change: from modern purism to postmodern pluralism -- PART IV: EASTERN ARCHITECTURE: A SURVEY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STRUCTURES: China and Japan: traditions in wood -- More than the Taj Mahal: architecture in India --The Islamic world -- PART V: ARRANGING THE PRESENT AND SAVING THE PAST: Understanding urban design -- Historic preservation: saving the past for the future -- PART VI: THE PART OF TEN: The most fascinating architects working today -- Ten architectura masterpieces -- Ten amazing items of trivia that'll impress all your friends! -- The top ten skyscrapers.

Summary:

Introduces general concepts of architecture, such as support systems, changes in architecture from prehistoric times to the present, and biographical information about famous architects.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0764553968 (paperback)
9780764553967 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture History
Building History
Architecture (object genre)
Architectural history.

Added entries:

Stern, Robert A. M.
--For dummies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223627
Call No.: NA200. D4 2002
Status: Available