Howard Davis

Broschiertes Buch

Living Over the Store

Architecture and Local Urban Life

Beschreibung

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building.

Autor

Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. His work is concerned with the social and cultural frameworks of architecture, the process of building, and the relationships between building typology, urban morphology, and grassroots economic development. His book The Culture of Building was named Best Publication in Architecture and Urban Studies by the Association of American Publishers in 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415783170
• ISBN-10: 0415783178
• Artikelnr.: 33379630