The Anatomy of Architecture
Subtitle: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780226058610
First sentence: Two thousand years ago Vitruvius exhorted architects with the following observation: In all matters, but particularly in architecture, there are these two points: the thing signified, and that which gives it significance. . . . it appears, then, that one who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.