| Description |
792 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, colour plates, maps, plans ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Study of What We Built -- 2. The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe -- 3. The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia -- 4. The Architecture of Ancient Egypt -- 5. Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor -- 6. The Greek Temple and "Barbarian" Alternatives -- 7. Polis and Akropolis -- 8. The Hellenistic Realm -- 9. Rome: Caput Mundi -- 10. The World at Large: Roman Concurrences -- 11. The Triumph of Christ -- 12. The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages -- 13. The Birth of Nations: Europe After Charles -- 14. The French Manner -- 15. The Urbanization of Europe, 1100-1300 -- 16. Edges of Medievalism -- 17. The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad -- 18. Spain and the New World -- 19. Istanbul and Venice -- 20. The Popes as Planners: Rome, 1450-1650 -- 21. Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture, 1600-1750 -- 22. Architecture for a New World -- 23. Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry, 1800-1850 -- 24. The American Experience |
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25. Victorian Environments -- 26. The Trials of Modernism -- 27. Architecture and the State: Interwar Years -- 28. The Ends of Modernism -- 29. Designing the Fin-De-Siecle |
| Summary |
"This book covers architecture and urbanism from Stone Age antiquity to Post-Modernism, from ordinary buildings to great monuments, offering an essential foundation upon which to build courses in architecture and art history." - back cover |
| Analysis |
Architecture History |
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Architecture History |
| Notes |
Includes and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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| Author |
Castillo, Greg, author
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Tobias, Richard, illustrator
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| LC no. |
94038787 |
| ISBN |
0195083784 |
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0195083792 (paperback) |
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9780195083781 |
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9780195083798 (paperback) |
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