ABC of Architecture POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Lisa Kern Griffin

Lisa Kern Griffin

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Explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social

ABC of Architecture POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Lisa Kern GriffinABC of Architecture is an accessible, nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. Author James F. O'Gormon moves seamlessly from a discussion of the most basic inspiration for architecture (the need for shelter from the elements), to an exploration of space, system, and material, and, finally, to an examination of the language and history of architecture. He shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans,