The story of architecture
By: Patrick Nuttgens
Series: Patricia Gidoomal Art & Art History Collection
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780714823041; 9780714822839
Subjects: Architecture; History; Geschichte; Architektur
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 Orgins; title: 2 Barbaric Splendour: the first civilization, 4000 BC to fourth century AD; title: 3 The Geometry of Immortality: Ancient Egypt, 3200 BC to first century AD; title: 4 The Holy Mountain and the Sacred Womb: Southern Asia, 2500 BC to eighteenth century AD; title: 5 Puzzles and Modules: China and Japan, third century BC to twentieth century AD; title: 6 Ritual of Blood: Pre-Hispanic America, 1200 BC to sixteenth century AD; title: 7 The Landscape of the Gods, Ancient Greece, fifth century BC to the first century AD; title: 8 The Authority of Competence: Rome, fourth century BC to fifth century AD; title: 9 The Worshipping Community: early Christian and Byzantine, fourth to fifteenth century; title: 10 The Order and the Sanctuary: Romanesque, ninth to twelfth century; title: 11 The Flowering of the Desert: Islam, seventh to twentieth century; title: 12 The Metaphysics of Light: Gothic, twelfth to sixteenth century; title: 13 The Scale of Human Perfection: Renaissance Italy, fifteenth to sixteenth century; title: 14 Urbanity crosses the Alps: spread of the Renaissance, fifteenth to seventeenth century; title: 15 Drama: Baroque and Rococo, seventeenth to eighteenth century; title: 16 The Prophets of Elegance: Romantic Classicism, eighteenth to nineteenth century; title: 17 How the Pioneers became self-reliant: Americas and beyond, seventeenth to eighteenth century; title: 18 The Rise of the Iron Masters: the search for a style, nineteenth to 1914; title: 19 Expectancy: the turn of the century, c.1870 to 1920; title: 20 Function and Anonymity: the International Style, c.1918 to 1970; title: Many Directions; title: the pluralistic world of persionalism and technology, the present day.