Titre:
Architecture
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Eyewitness Companions - Architecture.
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2006
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Description matérielle:
512 p. : ill.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Note générale:
Previously published as: Story of architecture.
Includes index.
36.00
Table des matières:
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.
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Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780756617325
Informations de publication:
London ; New York : DK, c2006.
