描述
Architectural detailsare the fashion statements of buildings, communicating their messages to passerby in much the same way that ancient edifices conveyed messages to people before written language became the norm.
A lavish and scholarly tribute to ornamentation in nineteenth- and twentieth- century architecture, Detail: The Architect’s Art explores this fascinating theme in over one hundred full-color photographs that ewcapture the meaning- and the pleasure- of looking at architectural detail.
