Architectural details
Subtitle: a visual guide to 5000 years of building styles
By: Emily Cole, general editor
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781782401698
Subjects: Details; Architecture; History
Other titles: Visual guide to five thousand years of building styles
Description: Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Of course. But what about an entablature, a hypostyle, a pylon, or a pagoda? This book renders accessible, to students and non-students alike, the vast range of architectural terminology used to describe buildings. The chronological arrangement of the book allows the reader to place elements, forms, techniques and styles firmly within their context.0Beautifully engraved plates of great works of architectural history accompany the text to illustrate the architecture of civilisations from around the world and throughout history, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution.
Notes: "First published in 2002 as The Grammar of Architecture."--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.