Details: the Architect’s Art -9780877017479

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.