Book description
The Open University – Arts: a third level course – History of architecture and design 1890-1939 – Units 1-2
CONTENTS:
1. Principles of architectural history
Evidence and value judgements
Identification of visual source material
Architects’ methids of presenting a building project
2. Factors which affect design
3. Design case study: Norman Bel Geddes
Motor cars
Designs for the Toledo Scale Company
Designs for the Standard Gas Equipment Corporation
4. Architecture and building
Design principles in architecture
Architecture and building
The problem of the "Zeitgeist"
5. Tradition and continuity in the history of architecture
Man’s need for symbolism
Primitive architecture
Vernacular architecture
Monumental architecture
6. Historical architecture case study: the Paris Opera
Analysis of the Opera
The Sydney Opera House
7. Contemporary architecture case study
The Context
Function (symbolic)
Function (practical)
