How to Read a Building

Architecture is all around us – it is part of our lives, and its development is a central theme in the history of mankind. Learning to read a building is the route to understanding a major part of our cultural inheritance.Collins Need to Know? How to Read a Building shows you how to analyse and interpret architectural features with confidence.Have you ever wanted to be able to tell the difference between tudor and mock-tudor? Want to learn what components make a building gothic? Ever wondered what has influenced how our towns and cities were built? Want to understand the major traditions of architecture?Collins Need to Know? How to Read a Building takes the reader through…