The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in Architectural Design

by Stephen Grabow and Kent Spreckelmeyer

Book Overview

By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative force in determining built form. Using familiar twentieth-century buildings as case studies, the authors present these from a new perspective, based on their functional design concepts. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of human use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415843022
• ISBN13: 9780415843027
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"