• Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins
  • Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins
  • Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins
  • Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins
  • Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins
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  • Reading Architecture Second Edition by Owen Hopkins

Reading Architecture Second Edition

A Visual Lexicon
  • Author
    • Owen Hopkins
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Details

  • Published: Jan 31 2023
  • Pages: 192
  • 820 g
  • 268 x 208mm
  • ISBN: 9781529420340
Regular price $35.00
Regular price Sale price $35.00

Press Reviews

  • Monocle
    Anyone with an interest in buildings and the built environment would do well to purchase a copy of Owen Hopkins' book.
  • The New Criterion
    It is a delight to discover Owen Hopkins's Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon, recently published in its second edition. Covering the entire history of architecture and its myriad styles, and written in clear prose with diagrammatic illustrations throughout, this book is essential for those wishing to distinguish between a tympanum ("in medieval architecture, the often decorated infilled space above the imposts of an arch supported by two smaller arches") and a trumeau ("the central mullion in an arched window or doorway, supporting a tympanum above two smaller arches")-as well as those just curious what the dormer windows in spires are called (those would be lucarnes).