Architecture
Title:
Architecture
Personal Author EPSB:
Other Title:
Eyewitness Companions - Architecture.
Year Published:
2006
Series:
Physical Description:
512 p. : ill.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Note:
Previously published as: Story of architecture.
Includes index.
36.00
Contents:
Introducing architecture. What is architecture? -- The building blocks of architecture -- From village to city. Ancient Middle East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Americas. Central & North America -- South America -- The classical world. Ancient Greece -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian & Byzantine architecture -- India & Southeast Asia. Indian architecture -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia. China -- Japan & Korea -- The Islamic world. The first mosques -- Persia & Mughal India -- Medieval Europe. Romanesque -- Gothic -- The Renaissance. Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance beyond Italy -- Baroque & Rococo. Baroque -- Rococo -- Classical revival. Neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- The industrial world. The machine age -- Gothic revival -- Nostalgia & whimsy -- The modern world. Modernism -- Traditionalism -- The contemporary world.
Subject:
ISBN:
9780756617325
Publisher:
London ; New York : DK, c2006.
