UNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURE. Copyright © 1993 by Leland M. Roth.
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FIRST EDITION

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roth, Leland M.

Understanding architecture : its elements, history, and meaning /
Leland Roth. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-06-438493-4 (cloth) / ISBN 0-06-430158-3 (paper)

1. Architecture. 2. Architecture--History. I. Title.

NA2500.R68 1992

720 32.1--dc2O 88-45540

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