Architecture and critical imagination /

Attoe, Wayne.

Architecture and critical imagination / Wayne Attoe - Chichester, England : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c1978 - xx, 188 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. Criticism -- 2. Methods of criticism: normative criticism -- 3. Methods of criticism: interpretive criticism -- 4. Methods of criticism: descriptive criticism -- 5. The rhetoric of criticism -- 6. Settings for criticism -- 7. The ends of criticism -- Bibliography -- Index.

Architectural criticism has received little attention as a discipline. The reason might be that is still emerging, that there is not yet a sufficiently weighty body of material to warrant analysis and discussion.

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ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM

NA 2599.5 .A88 1978