Saturday, November 8, 2025

“How to Read Buildings: a crash course in architectural styles” by Carol Davidson Cragoe

 It literally took me years to finish this book, which I bought in the National Art Gallery. It did contain some information which was interesting to me, but sadly, I don’t think I retained anything. 

It did not help that the book has the format of cobbled together lecture notes. As a result, some things are not well explained at all, and some illustrations, which would have worked well as slides, don’t really have much effect on a small page. That said, if this book is indeed based on a university course, I would have enjoyed taking that course.

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