Rice's Architectural Primer Book

A quick comprehensive education; an architectural enthusiast with a passion for illustration explains how to describe buildings. Rice is a Jack of all trades designer, who has a massive enthusiasm for buildings. However how many of us understand the terms to describe buildings features. Rice has produced a glossary for people ignorant of architecture. The book does exactly what is says on the tin. With the most exquisitely animated drawings, Rice brings to life the distinctive features of some beautiful buildings and catalogues the individual features in a simplified, yet detailed style, carefully ensuring the correct terminology is applied. Rice informs of how architecture has been a way of expressing political thought and uses examples to explain this idea. Despite the obvious economy of photographing buildings to explain features, Rice prefers the use of illustrations because of his concern that with the camera being unable to lie, often buildings are now littered with notices which can distract the eye from this significant details. Although not opposed to progress and modernisation, Rice believes that often in the process of restoration or putting buildings right we have a habit of ruining them. This thought provoking book should help the reader to think more carefully about the buildings they inhabit daily and why they look and feel as they do. Read More