Awards

• Runner-up for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: Architecture 2003.
• Winner of <PrizeName>Silver Award Winner for Architecture in the 2003 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards</PrizeName> 2003
• Winner of Silver Award Winner for Architecture in the 2003 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards 2003
• Winner of Silver Award Winner for Architecture in the 2003 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards</PrizeName> 2003

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Tutors and students will be blessing Fil Hearn for his little book...compact, erudite, literate. -Jeremy Melvin, Architects Journal There has long been a need for this book, and it should sell well for many years. -Library Journal The product of many years of classroom experience, this compendium is likely to become a much assigned text... -Publisher's Weekly Hearn is a good tour guide. -Michael J. Crosbie, Architectural Record

Hearn is a good tour guide. -- Michael J. Crosbie, Architectural Record Tutors and students will be blessing Fil Hearn for his little book ... compact, erudite, literate. -- Jeremy Melvin, Architects Journal There has long been a need for this book, and it should sell well for many years. -- Peter Kaufman, Library Journal The product of many years of classroom experience, this compendium is likely to become a much assigned text... -- Publisher's Weekly Fil Hearn's Ideas That Shaped Buildings lucidly summarizes two thousand years of theorizing about architecture in an easy-to-read primer wisely organized both chronologically and thematically. Offering a comprehensive overview of the canon of design thinking from Vitruvius to Venturi, it will be a useful introductory text for architecture students, architects, and cultured readers interested in surveying Western civilization's most influential architectural ideas. --Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, Professor, University of Maryland School of Architecture

Fil Hearn's Ideas That Shaped Buildings lucidly summarizes two thousand years of theorizing about architecture in an easy-to-read primer wisely organized both chronologically and thematically. Offering a comprehensive overview of the canon of design thinking from Vitruvius to Venturi, it will be a useful introductory text for architecture students, architects, and cultured readers interested in surveying Western civilization's most influential architectural ideas. Roger K. Lewis , FAIA, Professor, University of Maryland School of Architecture Hearn is a good tour guide. Michael J. Crosbie Architectural Record The product of many years of classroom experience, this compendium is likely to become a much assigned text... Publisher's Weekly There has long been a need for this book, and it should sell well for many years. Peter Kaufman Library Journal Tutors and students will be blessing Fil Hearn for his little book... compact, erudite, literate. Jeremy Melvin Architects Journal Fil Hearn's *Ideas That Shaped Buildings* lucidly summarizes two thousand years of theorizing about architecture in an easy-to-read primer wisely organized both chronologically and thematically. Offering a comprehensive overview of the canon of design thinking from Vitruvius to Venturi, it will be a useful introductory text for architecture students, architects, and cultured readers interested in surveying Western civilization's most influential architectural ideas. --Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, Professor, University of Maryland School of Architecture

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Fil Hearn is Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Director of Architectural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

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