Andrew Ballantyne

A fairly speedy overview of the cultural meaning and philosophy of high culture architecture, providing some interesting nuggets of information though being rather chattier and a bit scattered than systematic. It will provoke the reader with practically no prior reading in architecture at all, such as myself, with a better sense of how to look at and appreciate high status architecture. For its gaze is very much at the level of high culture, discussing famous museums and cathedrals and ancient temples and modern high rises, rather than the proletarian commonplace buildings of society one most often actually sees.

Contains 25 black and white photos of buildings discussed, which is nice, but a device capable of looking up photos on Google Images will be very handy to have along.… (más)