Architecture through the ages.
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
Subjects: Architecture -- History
Description: The aim of this book is to show that buildings are not isolated objects existing arbitrarily in one or another of the recognizable set "styles" but rather the inevitable results of the ways of living, governing, worshipping, and doing business in practice at the time they were built.
Notes: Bibliography: p. vii-viii.