Isms
Subtitle: understanding architectural styles
By: Jeremy Melvin
Publisher: Universe
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Architecture -- Themes, motives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Table of contents: title: Ancient & pre-Renaissance: Pre-classicism ; Indism ; Proto-classicism ; Hellenic classicism ; Confucianism ; Roman classicism ; Pre-Columbianism ; Shintoism ; Christian classicism ; Islamicism ; Indo-Khmerism ; Gothic scholasticism ; Gothic commercialism; title: Renaissance: Inventionism ; Humanism ; Idealism ; Mannerism ; Pietism ; Regional classicism ; Baroque ; Absolutism ; Anglican empiricism ; Rococo ; Palladianism ; Georgian urbanism; title: Early modern: Neoclassicism ; Exoticism ; Sublimism ; Structural rationalism ; Materialism ; Medievalism ; Victorianism ; Monumental urbanism ; Anti-urbanism ; Decorative industrialism ; Imperialism; title: Modernism: Expressionism ; Usonianism ; Constructivism ; Purism ; Rationalism ; Functionalism ; Skyscraperism ; Totalitarianism ; Corporatism ; Brutalism; title: Beyond modernism: Structuralism ; Regionalism ; Metabolism ; Postmodernism ; Technoism ; Neo-rationalism ; Deconstructivism ; Ecoism ; Metarationalism; title: Reference section: Introduction ; How to use this book ; Glossary of buildings ; Glossary of architects ; Glossary of useful terms ; Chronology of isms ; Places to visit ; Credits.