Download or read book Architecture for Beginners written by Louis Hellman and published by Writers & Readers Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABC's of architecture. From cave-dwelling to skyscraper, Louis Hellman, architect, cartoonist and RIBA gadfly, gives us the blueprint. Buildings are the 'art we live in', occupying our space, time and vision. Temples, pyramids, cathedrals, apartment-blocks and petrol stations. The styles, materials, inventions the good and the bad of architecture, are clearly explained. From Palladio to Le Corbusier, Bauhaus, town-planners, bureaucrats and commuters. Past, present and maybe a future!