What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and lets you explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture.

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: What is "Architecture"? Part I: Where is Architecture? Divinity, Domesticity, Community Chapter 1: Sacred Spaces Chapter 2: The House Chapter 3: The City Part II: Who Makes Architecture? Builders, Professionals, Artists Chapter 4: Architects and Engineers Chapter 5: Aesthetics Chapter 6: Originality Part III: What is Architecture About? Physics, Places, People Chapter 7: Structure and Form Chapter 8: Memory and Identity Chapter 9: Power and Politics Conclusion: Two Films, Two Architects, Your Ideas Image Credits Bibliography Glossary Index

Denise Costanzo is an assistant professor of architecture at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. During 2014-2015 she was the American Academy in Rome's Marian and Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies.