Architectural Type and Character : A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Includes References and Index

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

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.