A history of Western architecture
By: David Watkin
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Laurence King; Laurence King Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781856697903
Subjects: Architecture; History
Description: In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mesopotamia and Egypt; title: The classical foundation: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman; title: Early Christian and Byzantine; title: Carolingian and Romanesque; title: The Gothic experiment; title: Renaissance harmony; title: Baroque expansion; title: Eighteenth-century classicism; title: The nineteenth-century; title: Art nouveau; title: The twentieth century; title: The twenty-first century.