The A to Z of Architecture
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780810870581; 9781282521650
Description: The A to Z of Architecture provides information on architectslike Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, FilippoBrunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, aswell as on famous structures like the Acropolis, the Colosseum, theForbidden City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the World Trade Center. The dictionary examines thedevelopment of architecture over the centuries through a chronology, anintroductory essay, a bi.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Illustrations; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; About the Author; photospread.