ABC of Architecture

ABC of Architecture is an accessible, nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. Author James F. O'Gormon moves seamlessly from a discussion of the most basic inspiration for architecture (the need for shelter from the elements), to an exploration of space, system, and material, and, finally, to an examination of the language and history of architecture. He shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans, sections, and elevations, and how architects, like other artists, make creative use of space and light.

Author: James F. O'Gorman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780812216318
ISBN10: 0812216318
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Reference

About the Author
James F. O'Gorman is Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art at Wellesley College and author of more than a dozen books on architecture and art history, including Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.