{"product_id":"reading-architecture-a-visual-lexicon","title":"Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon","description":"Product Description\n\nThis innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.\n\nClear line drawings and extensive colour photographs illustrate each of the main building types, from forts to churches, stately homes to skyscrapers. The individual structural elements and materials common to all buildings are then explained, whether in Classical, Gothic or Modernist style, before delving into the inner architectural details such as doors and windows, roofs and staircases. A comprehensive glossary completes the book.\n\nAn original and accessible take on the architectural dictionary, this book takes you on a visual tour of the buildings around us, and will be useful not only to students but to anyone with a general interest in architecture.\n\nBook Description\n\nThis innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nA visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming the visible architectural features so that the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. It features line drawings and colour photographs that illustrate each of the main building types, from forts to churches, stately homes to skyscrapers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAbout the Author\n\nOwen Hopkins works for the Architecture Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.","brand":"Laurence King Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741717246037,"sku":"9781856697361N","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/04d17768-d931-408f-8d5f-625166c5fd6d.jpg?v=1702666325","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/reading-architecture-a-visual-lexicon","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}