Architecture
By: Jonathan Glancey.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Eyewitness companions
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Architecture -- History.
Description: Presenting a series of innovative manuals on a wide variety of popular subjects. These richly illustrated companions offers detailed cutaway views, maps, specially commissioned photographs, informative captions, and a fact-filled text as they cover the basics of different topics of interest.
Notes: Previously published as: Story of architecture.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing architecture; title: What is architecture?; title: The building blocks of architecture; title: From village to city; title: Ancient Near East; title: Ancient Egypt; title: The Americas; title: Central & North America; title: South America; title: The classical world; title: Classical Greece; title: Roman architecture; title: Early Christian & Byzantine architecture; title: India & Southeast Asia; title: Indian architecture; title: Southeast Asia; title: East Asia; title: China; title: Japan & Korea; title: The Islamic world; title: The first mosques; title: Persia & Mughal India; title: Medieval Europe; title: Romanesque; title: Gothic; title: The Renaissance; title: Italian Renaissance; title: Renaissance beyond Italy; title: Baroque & rococo; title: Baroque; title: Rococo; title: Classical revival; title: Neo-classicism; title: Neo-classicism in the USA; title: The industrial world; title: The machine age; title: Gothic revival; title: Nostalgia & whimsy; title: The modern world; title: Modernism; title: Traditionalism; title: The contemporary world.