Description
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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
