The story of architecture / Jonathan Glancey ; foreword by Norman Foster

By: Glancey, Jonathan [author]
Publisher: London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000Edition: 1st American edDescription: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0789459655; 9780789459657 ; 0751308102 ; 9780751308105 ; 0751348813 ; 9780751348811Subject(s): Architecture -- HistoryDDC classification: 720 LOC classification: NA200 | .G527 2000
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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