Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.

Significant features of the fourth edition include:

• Expanded global essays outlining the encounters and interchanges, conflicts and accommodations, between disparate global communities
• A brand-new final chap...