TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roth, Leland M.
AU  - Roth Clark, Amanda C.
TI  - Understanding architecture: Its elements, history and meaning
SN  - 978013349039
U1  - 720.9 ROT 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Colorado
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - Architecture - History - Pictorial works
KW  - Architecture - Massachusetts - Boston
N2  - This bestselling, illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, explaining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in a way that is both accessible and engaging. The long-awaited third edition includes increased global coverage with new mini chapters on Africa, Japan, China, India, and Islamic Architecture; a new chapter covering the future of architecture in the twenty-first century; updated coverage of sustainability and green architecture and its impact on design; an update to the historical survey; and over fifty images in full color. Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part structure: (1) The Elements of Architecture and (2) The History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive and clearly written, Understanding Architecture is a classic survey of Western architecture
ER  -