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Architecture, Travellers and Writers
Anne Hultzsch
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Description for Architecture, Travellers and Writers
Hardcover. Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: AMX; DSB; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 638.
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. The words authors use to transcribe what they see for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes of perception specific to one moment, place and person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary ... Read more
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. The words authors use to transcribe what they see for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes of perception specific to one moment, place and person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Maney Publishing United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Leeds, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907975639
SKU
V9781907975639
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