Alan Gowans
Contributor
Director, National Images of North American Living, Washington, D.C. Emeritus Professor of History in Art, University of Victoria, British Columbia. Author of Styles and Types of North American Architecture and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Architecture, the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic ends. Although these two…
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