- Great ideas that revolutionized architecture - Richard Weston - Books

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  • Interesting and informative 2  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    Beautiful and interesting images illustrate a text that intends to be educational. However the importance of "discoveries" is not equaled one page to another, and the importance of each discovery for architecture is not obvious. Interesting but
  • Gift idea for high school students interested in studying architecture  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    Both for the general public (short texts, architecture approached from simple concepts), but sharp enough (published by a university press, some 100 ideas are quite technical: the "classical orders": Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and the perspective
  • informative and fun 2  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    Despite a general organization a bit disjointed this book is very readable. One can discover pell-mell much information to appropriate the great architectural concepts. The articles are easy to read and written in a didactic way. Moreover, with the a
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    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    I was afraid of too austere book upon receipt, before opening. I do not know why. Long texts, pictures correct but not always top. In fact you really have to start and play the game c is to say, quite simply "read" ... You really learn a lot and
  • REACT ARCHITECTURAL  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    Very fascinating book illustrated the evolution of ideas on the use of living space. Evidence that human creativity has no limit on how to occupy his Lebensraum, living it every day, decorate, heat, ventilate, integrate in rural or urban environment,
  • Beautiful and exciting 1 2  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    100 architectural ideas are presented each on a double page with a photo systematically full page and another (sometimes two) smaller. Architectural elements (door, window, arch, staircase ...), original philosophical concepts (utopian humanism ...),
  • Beautiful building 1  

    Great ideas that revolutionized architecture (Paperback)
    This album is an original approach to architecture. In good style accessible to every curious mind without necessarily being subject expert, you can wander at random from a hundred ideas that form the book's structure: the purely technical issues (st