A history of architecture on the disparative method
Subtitle: with apologies to Sir Banister Fletcher (all eighteen editions)
By: Written and illustrated by Forrest Wilson.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Architecture -- History -- Humor.
First sentence: This guide to the technique of reading between the lines of nonsensical texts is dedicated to lively young minds oppressed by dead scholarship.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 6; title: Survival Through Desing
pagenum: 8; title: Prehistoric Architecture
pagenum: 12; title: The Egyptians
pagenum: 17; title: Memphite Period or Old Kingdom
pagenum: 18; title: Rock-Cut Tombs
pagenum: 19; title: The Architect
pagenum: 20; title: Later Forms
pagenum: 21; title: The Peristyle
pagenum: 21; title: The Obelisk
pagenum: 23; title: Dwellings
pagenum: 23; title: The Romans
pagenum: 24; title: The House
pagenum: 25; title: The Temple
pagenum: 25; title: Arched Construction
pagenum: 25; title: The Architect
pagenum: 26; title: Columnar Systems
pagenum: 26; title: The Vault
pagenum: 26; title: Early Christian Architecture
pagenum: 28; title: Renaissance
pagenum: 34; title: Modern Architecture
pagenum: 42; title: The Nodule on the Module
pagenum: 44; title: The Art of War
pagenum: 50; title: Richard the Lionhearted Architect as a Knight of the Garter
pagenum: 56; title: Some Modest Proposals for the Redesign of Man
pagenum: 64; title: Contaminated Man
pagenum: 68; title: Modular Man
pagenum: 70; title: Titillating Evolution
pagenum: 71; title: Plastic, or Silly Putty, Man
pagenum: 73; title: Ugliness Makes America Great
pagenum: 74