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Language of Buildings (Hardcover)
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Language of Buildings (Hardcover)
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List price R641
Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
You Save R68 (11%)
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A new, larger format edition of Rice's Architectural Primer. This
beautifully illustrated book covers the grammar and vocabulary of
British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman
castles to Norman Foster. Its aim is to enable the reader to
recognise, understand and date any British building. As Matthew
Rice says, 'Once you can speak any language, conversation can
begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish.
The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe
the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable
to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar
about it.' With this book in your hand, buildings will break down
beguilingly into their component parts, ready for inspection and
discussion. There will be no more references to 'that curly bit on
top of the thing with the square protrusions'. Fluent in the world
of volutes, hood moulds, lobed architraves and bucrania, you will
be able to leave a cathedral or country house with as much to talk
about as a film or play. Complete with over 400 exquisite
watercolour illustrations and hand-drawn annotations, this is a
joyous celebration of British buildings and will allow you to
observe and describe the world around you afresh.
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