Understanding Architecture
Third Edition
Leland M. Roth / Amanda C. Roth Clark
© 2019
Contents
I. The Elements of Architecture
1. Architecture: The Art of Shaping of Space
2. “Commoditie”: Building Functions
3. “Firmeness”: Structure, or How Does the Building Stand Up?
4. “Delight”: Seeing Architecture
5. Architecture and Sound
6. Architecture: Part of the Natural Environment
7. The Architect: From High Pries to Profession
8. Architecture, Memory, and Economics
Chronology
II. The History and Meaning of Architecture
9. The Beginning of Architecture: From Caves to Cities
10. The Architecture of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
11. Greek Architecture
12. Roman Architecture
Essay 1: Indian Architecture
13. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Essay 2: Islamic Architecture
14. Medieval Architecture
15. Renaissance Architecture
Essay 3: Ancient Architecture in the Americas
16. Baroque and Rococo Architecture
Essay 4: Chinese Architecture
17. The Origins of Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1720-1790
Essay 5: Japanese Architecture
18. The Roots of Modernism: The Nineteenth Century
Essay 6: African Architecture
19. Versions of Modern Architecture, 1914-1970
20. The Expansion of Modernism: From the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First
21. Into the Twenty-First Century
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