Architecture
Subtitle: the critics' choice : 150 masterpieces of western architecture
By: edited by Dan Cruickshank.
Contributors: Cruickshank, Dan.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Architecture -- History
Description: "Architecture: The Critics' Choice is a chronological tour of the world's architectural masterpieces - from the Classical period to Modernism and beyond. Each contributor discusses 15 personal choices, offering the reader a varied selection: buildings known throughout the world, such as the Parthenon and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, are found alongside architectural treasures that have, until now, been the private pleasures of experts.".

"Each building is described in detail in an essay that gives the critic's personal reasons for his or her choice; covers who built it and why; discusses aspects of design, materials used, and construction; and supplies an overview of the broader social context in which the building was created."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Dan Cruickshank; title: The classical world -- Robin Francis Rhodes; title: Early Christian, Romanesque, and Gothic -- Robert Harbison; title: Renaissance and Palladianism -- Steven Parissien; title: The Baroque -- Christian Norberg-Schulz; title: Neoclassicism -- Gillian Darley; title: The Machine Age -- Gavin Stamp; title: Fin de Siecle -- Richard A. Etlin; title: Modernism before 1945 -- Alan Powers; title: Modernism after 1945 -- Peter Blundell Jones; title: The end of the Millennium-- Diane Ghirardo.