Architecture, someone said, is frozen music. And some people would say that the best thing you could do with most architecture is melt it down and start again. Why are buildings designed as they are? Where do architects get their ideas from? And why do so many of those ideas strike the rest of us as being barking mad? ARCHITECTURE -A CRASH COURSE has the answers.

- assumes no previous architectural knowledge
- outlines lives and works of the key players
- separates architecture from building
- architectural styles and movements explained
- glossary of terms and techniques