Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Samir / Westfall Younes

256 pages, parution le 30/01/2022

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Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide important material for appreciating buildings and guiding those who produce them. In current histories, a building is the product of a time, its form follows its function, irresistible influences produce it, and style, preferably novel, is its most important attribute. This book argues for an alternative.

Through a two-part structure, the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places.

Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand, analyze, and create buildings.

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Preamble

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1: The History of Architecture We Have

Chapter 2: The Alternative: Type, Character, and Style

Chapter 3: Urbanism

Chapter 4: The Components and Types of Good Urban Form

PART II

Chapter 5: The Tholos

Chapter 6: The Temple

Chapter 7: The Theatre

Chapter 8: The Regia

Chapter 9: The Dwelling

Chapter 10: The Shop

Chapter 11: The Hypostyle

Samir Younes is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame where he was Director of Rome Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches architectural design and theory. His books include: The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgement; Architects and Mimetic Rivalry; The Intellectual Life of the Architect; and Quatremere de Quincy's Historical Dictionary of Architecture: The True, The Fictive, and The Real. Carroll William Westfall's PhD in the history of architecture from Columbia University was followed by five decades of teaching before retiring from the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly and general articles run from studies of Pompeii to critiques of current practice. His books are In This Most Perfect Paradise, a study of Rome in the 15th c.; Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, a dialectic exchange with Robert Jan van Pelt, and a review of architectural theory, Architecture, Liberty, and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond.

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Éditeur(s)	Taylor&francis
Auteur(s)	Samir / Westfall Younes
Parution	30/01/2022
Nb. de pages	256
EAN13	9781138584051

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