ONLINE Book Club: Buildings Across Time by Michael Fazio Meeting 8 of 8

Hello all! We will meet online for a discussion of Chapter 16 of Buildings Across Time by Michael Fazio. Per the publisher, "Buildings Across Time offers a survey of world architecture both for students taking introductory courses and for the general reader simply interested in buildings. The authors have searched out the stories these buildings have to tell, considered the intentions of the people who built them, and examined the lives of those who used them. The text begins with prehistory and ends with early twenty-first century. It covers the Western tradition as well as works in the Islamic world, the pre-Columbian Americas, Africa, China, Southeast Asia, Russia, and Japan.
Buildings Across Time is a diverse sampling of the built environment written in a straightforward but lively style that is rich with detail. The text contains extensive descriptive narrative leavened with focused critical analysis, which allows the book to stand alone and invites lecturers to impose their studied interpretations on the material without the danger of undue ambiguity or conflict. In a world that grows smaller by the day, it presents a global perspective, and in a discipline that concerns built objects that are often beautiful as well as functional, it is copiously illustrated, intelligently designed, and consistently usable."

We will split the readings and meetings into 8 parts, meeting every month on Wednesday per below. Each meeting covers about 80 pages.

Wed 5/31/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 1 of 8 (Ch 1-3)
Wed 6/28/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 2 of 8 (Ch 4-6)
Wed 7/26/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 3 of 8 (Ch 7-8)
Wed 8/23/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 4 of 8 (Ch 9-10)
Wed 9/20/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 5 of 8 (Ch 11-12)
Wed 10/18/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 6 of 8 (Ch 13-14)
Wed 11/15/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 7 of 8 (Ch 15)
Wed 12/13/23 Buildings Across Time Meeting 8 of 8 (Ch 16)

You can get the 5th edition of the book for free on PDF here (it's 300mb file so it will take a while to load):
https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaced37kkb24eturihnm6ebllmcxqzz2ohqc5epvgrs6crpezc5szcva?filename=buildings.pdf

Or the new 6th edition in paperback here:
https://www.amazon.com/ISE-Buildings-Across-Time-Introduction/dp/1265219494

Or a used older edition here:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31354235513

All are welcome! You can join for any or all of the above 8 meetings (You don't need to commit to all).