| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
512 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Eyewitness companions |
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Eyewitness companions.
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| Note |
Previously published as: Story of architecture. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introducing architecture -- What is architecture? -- The building blocks of architecture -- From village to city -- Ancient Middle East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Americas -- Central & North America -- South America -- The classical world -- Ancient Greece -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian & Byzantine architecture -- India & Southeast Asia -- Indian architecture -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia -- China -- Japan & Korea -- The Islamic world -- The first mosques -- Persia & Mughal India -- Medieval Europe -- Romanesque -- Gothic -- The Renaissance -- Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance beyond Italy -- Baroque & rococo -- Baroque -- Rococo -- Classical revival -- Neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- The industrial world -- The machine age -- Gothic revival -- Nostalgia & whimsy -- The modern world -- Modernism -- Traditionalism -- The contemporary world. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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| Added Author |
Cussans, Thomas.
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| ISBN |
0756617324 flexi binding with flaps |
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