How to read modern buildings : a crash course in the architecture of the modern era /
Will Jones
- London : Herbert Press, c2017.
- 256 pages : colored illustrations ; 17 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Grammar of styles -- Building types : Homes -- Mass housing -- Worship -- Tall -- Work -- Culture -- Travel -- Learning -- Leisure -- Appendices.
This guide to understanding the architecture of the modern era takes the reader on a guided tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognise them in the buildings all around