Ideas That Shaped Buildings
$54.90
- Paperback
372 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2003
Summary
Identifying the operative ideas in architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present and codifying them into coherent theoretical systems; for students, practitioners, and the general reader.
In Ideas That Shaped Buildings, Fil Hearn identifies and codifies into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present. With this strikingly original synthesis of architectural history and theory, he constructs an intellectual a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262582278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262582279 |
| Author: | M. Fil Hearn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 372 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 137mm x 203mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“Tutors and students will be blessing Fil Hearn for his little book… compact,erudite, literate.” Jeremy Melvin ArchitectsJournal
Hearn is a good tour guide.
—Michael J. Crosbie, Architectural RecordThe product of many years of classroom experience, this compendium is likely to become a much assigned text…
—Publisher’s WeeklyThere has long been a need for this book, and it should sell well for many years.
—Library JournalTutors and students will be blessing Fil Hearn for his little book…compact, erudite, literate.
—Jeremy Melvin, Architects JournalM. Fil Hearn
Fil Hearn is Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Director of Architectural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
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