At last available in English this classic text was originally published inGermany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmannanalyzes... » 

At last available in English this classic text was originally published inGermany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmannanalyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfthcentury that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines theoccurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but asmeaningful expressions of metamaterial content and develops an architecturaliconography of symbolic historical and aesthetic elements. «