Architectural History : Flip & Grasp: A truly concise textbook for the designing hard and hardly reading

Why Should I Read This Book

If you ever wished for a book - a concise textbook - that could explain in clear and unambiguous terms, with short and crisp examples - the processes - the principles - the true nature of Architectural History - then here it is !

Of the few books written on Architectural History, this is the only one - that approaches the subject at such a deeply philosophical level, yet uses words so sweet and simple, that they could be understood (and even enjoyed) by anyone and everyone !

This unique book eloquently explains much of what is so fashionably scrambled up in the B.Arch course. Written with the designing hard and hardly reading students in mind - this book is a must read for Architectural students, who are trying hard to make some sense out of the mystified world that Architectural History has largely been abandoned to become !

This simple book effortlessly does, what has been due for far too long - and strangely, has never been done before, as effectively, by any other book. This marvelous book, irrespective of your proficiency in Architectural History - will take you light-years ahead, in a few hours - into thinking like the Great Architects !

Reading this book would hardly take you two hours, but in those two hours - you would have learnt more about Architectural History - than

Perhaps it would be more graceful (and less controversial) to confidently leave it to satisfied readers like you - to complete the sentence !

Table of Contents

1. Why Should I Read This Book ?
2. How Should I Read This Book ?
3. Chapter 1 : What is Architectural History ?
4. Chapter 2 : Origin, Organization & Optimization
5. Chapter 3 : WHAT is of Relevance Here ?
6. WHAT 1 : WHAT about Feelings ?
7. WHAT 2 : WHAT about Faith ?
8. WHAT 3 : WHAT about Faithfulness ?
9. WHAT 4 : WHAT about Fear ?
10. WHAT 5 : WHAT about Form ?
11. WHAT 6 : WHAT about Fabric ?
12. WHAT 7 : WHAT about Fabrication ?
13. WHAT 8 : WHAT about Finance ?
14. WHAT 9 : WHAT about Fashion ?
15. WHAT 10 : WHAT about Fantasies ?
16. About the Author