The story of architecture /
Nuttgens, Patrick.
The story of architecture / Patrick Nuttgens. - 2nd ed. - London : Phaidon, 1997. - 351p : ill, maps,plans. ; 25 cm. ; pbk.
Bibliography: p.321-324. - Includes index.
Some basic facts about architecture: vernacular architecture -- Barbaric splendour: the first civilizations -- The geometry of immortality: ancient Egypt -- Holy mountain and sacred womb: the Asian sub-continent -- Puzzles and modules: China and Japan -- Ritual of blood: Meso-America -- The landscape of the Gods: ancient Greece -- The authority of competence: ancient Rome -- The worshipping community: early Christian and Byzantine -- The order and the sanctuary: romanesque -- The flowering of the desert: Islam -- The metaphysics of light: medieval and gothic -- The scale of human perfection: the renaissance in Italy -- Crossing the Alps: the spread of the renaissance -- The drama of shapes and space: baroque and rococo -- The prophets of elegance: romantic classicism -- From pioneers to establishment: the Americas and beyond -- The triumph of the iron masters: the search for a style -- A new vision: the turn of the century -- Designing for a new society: the international style -- The architecture of pluralism: the end of certainty.
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Architectural design--History
Architecture--History
Architecture and Planning.
Theory of architecture
Architectural structure & design
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The story of architecture / Patrick Nuttgens. - 2nd ed. - London : Phaidon, 1997. - 351p : ill, maps,plans. ; 25 cm. ; pbk.
Bibliography: p.321-324. - Includes index.
Some basic facts about architecture: vernacular architecture -- Barbaric splendour: the first civilizations -- The geometry of immortality: ancient Egypt -- Holy mountain and sacred womb: the Asian sub-continent -- Puzzles and modules: China and Japan -- Ritual of blood: Meso-America -- The landscape of the Gods: ancient Greece -- The authority of competence: ancient Rome -- The worshipping community: early Christian and Byzantine -- The order and the sanctuary: romanesque -- The flowering of the desert: Islam -- The metaphysics of light: medieval and gothic -- The scale of human perfection: the renaissance in Italy -- Crossing the Alps: the spread of the renaissance -- The drama of shapes and space: baroque and rococo -- The prophets of elegance: romantic classicism -- From pioneers to establishment: the Americas and beyond -- The triumph of the iron masters: the search for a style -- A new vision: the turn of the century -- Designing for a new society: the international style -- The architecture of pluralism: the end of certainty.
0714836168 9780714836164: £15.99
Architectural design--History
Architecture--History
Architecture and Planning.
Theory of architecture
Architectural structure & design
720.9