Architecture and Interior Design: An Integrated History to the Present (Fashion Series) 1st Edition

I am an Interior Design student using this book for school. I rented it after seeing the bad reviews online. However, I am considering purchasing this book. It gives lots of pictures and examples of buildings, furniture, textiles and entourage pieces used in each time period. I would read this book outside of my school work.

I had to buy this book for my "History of Architecture and Furnishings" class. As any other college book this one was pricey as well, but that's to be expected. As a visual art major student most of our books include a lot of pictures and drawings which this book did not fail to deliver as well. Overall good book, except a little incorrect terminology that my teacher caught.

Works good as expected.And for the ignorant "anti 2nd Amndmnt": blame the person, not the g u n.

Interesting and informative

Bought for a college class, does a good job conveying necessary information, not the most intriguing textbook but hey, you want a overview of the History of Architecture and Design? then it's probably good for that, idk, I'm not an expert, but it's good enough for class.

Good quality book for a good price; very functional and fits my needs. Book came exactly as it was described.

The book was delivered on time, and the service was great, but the book itself has some issues.The book often concentrates more on exterior architectural styles than interior design, or even interior architecture for that matter. I had made a joke at the beginning of the semester about how architecture students should take an interior design course, because we study exteriors so much more than interiors. The joke was that "Every architecture book I've ever had has photos of Palladio's Villa Rotunda, but I've never seen a photo of the interior. Well, you can throw this book in the same pile, because we have photos of the Villa Rotunda, but none from the inside.There are mistakes, which is off-putting. On page 49, there is a labeled diagram of the Ionic Order. Both of the mouldings labelled "cyma reversa" are cyma rectas. It wouldn't be a big deal, but they're defined on the very next page (A cyma reversa is a concave moulding with a convex moulding above it, and a cyma recta is a convex moulding with a concave moulding above it.)On page 65, there is a reconstruction of the Roman Forum. The view is from the center of the forum, looking towards the Capitoline hill. It's labelled "Forum, Basilica, and Market of Trajan." Not only are the markets of Trajan not in the picture, they're actually quite far away from the center of the Roman Forum. The markets of Trajan are on the other side of the imperial fora, on the northern end of the Forum of Trajan. Trajan's markets are really really not in the illustration.There are lots of little sloppy mistakes in the book, and the notes and powerpoints that come with the book to be used in the class are redundant, ambiguous, and sometimes contradictory.I'd like to reiterate, the seller is great. And the price for the book was really good too. I always check a variety of sites' prices before ordering. The book is somewhat weak though.

Average content...but Missing Information. I purchased this e-book for one of my classes. Without getting in at all into a description of the quality of the actual content I just want to point out that the the eversion of the book is terrible. Many of the important images that provide an additional understanding of the material are simply mission in the digital version. I just want to return the ebook and buy the hard copy of th ebook so that I can fully prepare all the material that I need to cover for the course. Despite searching I cannot even find a amazon customer service number to call or email to write to with this request. Overall...very dissatisfied!!!