Glancey, Jonathan.
The story of architecture / Jonathan Glancey ; foreword by Norman Foster - 1st American ed. - 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes index. Includes glossary
In the beginning: Growth of cities --
Ancient Egypt --
Early Africa --
Classical world: Ancient Greece --
Ancient Rome --
From darkness to light: Byzantine architecture --
Monasteries --
Romanesque --
Islam --
North America --
Gothic: Gothic world --
Castles --
Late Gothic --
Renaissance: Renaissance Italy --
High Renaissance --
Andrea Palladio --
Italian baroque --
Baroque beyond Italy --Absolutism --
Rococo --
Low countries --
Americas: Ancient Mesoamerica --
Colonial Americas --
China and Japan: Classical China --
Japan --
Asia: India --
Southeast Asia. Neo-classical: Neo-classical --
Classical landscape --
American classical --
French Revolution --
Greek revival --
Karl Friedrich Schinkel --
Imperial Russia --
Industrial society: Industrial revolution --
Railways --
Industrial cities --
Augustus Pugin --
Gothic revival --
Monumental decadence --
Free style --
Morality & architecture --
Machine age: Machines for working in --
Reach for the sky --
Frank Lloyd Wright --
Arts & crafts --
Art nouveau & secession --
Antoni Gaudi --
Brave new world: Revolutionary Russia --
Bauhaus --
Mass European housing --
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
Fascist architecture --
Le Corbusier. Mid-century modern --
Modernism & freedom --
New cities --
Oscar Niemeyer --
Brutalism --
Every which way: Corporatism --
Postmodernism --
Extremes --
High-tech --
Architects' engineering --
Japanese metabolists --
Classical revival --
Futures: Organic architecture --
Reuse of buildings --
Deconstructivism --
Computer --
Enjoyable cities.
Dorling Kindersley's visual approach, using photographs supported by architectural plans and diagrams, combine with inspiring text to tell the appealing story of the history of architecture.
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Architecture--History.
NA200 / .G527 2000
720
The story of architecture / Jonathan Glancey ; foreword by Norman Foster - 1st American ed. - 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes index. Includes glossary
In the beginning: Growth of cities --
Ancient Egypt --
Early Africa --
Classical world: Ancient Greece --
Ancient Rome --
From darkness to light: Byzantine architecture --
Monasteries --
Romanesque --
Islam --
North America --
Gothic: Gothic world --
Castles --
Late Gothic --
Renaissance: Renaissance Italy --
High Renaissance --
Andrea Palladio --
Italian baroque --
Baroque beyond Italy --Absolutism --
Rococo --
Low countries --
Americas: Ancient Mesoamerica --
Colonial Americas --
China and Japan: Classical China --
Japan --
Asia: India --
Southeast Asia. Neo-classical: Neo-classical --
Classical landscape --
American classical --
French Revolution --
Greek revival --
Karl Friedrich Schinkel --
Imperial Russia --
Industrial society: Industrial revolution --
Railways --
Industrial cities --
Augustus Pugin --
Gothic revival --
Monumental decadence --
Free style --
Morality & architecture --
Machine age: Machines for working in --
Reach for the sky --
Frank Lloyd Wright --
Arts & crafts --
Art nouveau & secession --
Antoni Gaudi --
Brave new world: Revolutionary Russia --
Bauhaus --
Mass European housing --
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
Fascist architecture --
Le Corbusier. Mid-century modern --
Modernism & freedom --
New cities --
Oscar Niemeyer --
Brutalism --
Every which way: Corporatism --
Postmodernism --
Extremes --
High-tech --
Architects' engineering --
Japanese metabolists --
Classical revival --
Futures: Organic architecture --
Reuse of buildings --
Deconstructivism --
Computer --
Enjoyable cities.
Dorling Kindersley's visual approach, using photographs supported by architectural plans and diagrams, combine with inspiring text to tell the appealing story of the history of architecture.
0789459655 9780789459657 0751308102 9780751308105 0751348813 9780751348811
00030434
Architecture--History.
NA200 / .G527 2000
720