How long does it take to read Architectural Theory?
Bernd Evers, Christof Thoenes, Christoph Thoenes, Dr. Thoenes Christof, Dr. Evers Bernd, TASCHEN
Architectural Theory by Bernd Evers, Christof Thoenes, Christoph Thoenes, Dr. Thoenes Christof, Dr. Evers Bernd, TASCHEN takes about 15 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 30 minutes
A long haul
First published 2003. 845 pages, about 232,375 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Discusses, in 89 concise essays, the most important treatises on architecture from the Renaissance to today. The authors explore the origins of each treatise and examine the motives that have prompted architects over the past 500 years to set down their ideas on paper. Grouped by nation and epoch, the writings of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, John Shute Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi and Rem Koolhaas are just some of those discussed"--Inside front cover.
Subjects: Historiography, Philosophy, Architecture, Architecture, philosophy, Details, History
