Architecture History, Theory and Preservation
Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Arleen Pabón-Charneco
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Architecture History, Theory and Preservation
Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Arleen Pabón-Charneco
Información del libro
Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of architecture. Complete with 170 full color images, this volume presents architectural and urban examples, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, chronologically and thematically examining contextual issues that provide each period with distinctive expressions. The special features, structural systems, materials and construction technologies are analyzed, as well as how the international community deals with the task of interpreting and preserving certain historicproperties.
This publication provides professors and students of architecture, art history, historic preservation and related fields withan integrated view of architecture using historical, theoretical and conservation perspectives. As an architect, architectural historian and preservationist herself, Dr Pabón-Charneco weaves a field of relationships regarding each building, creating a silent yet empowering bridge between past and present.