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Author Glancey, Jonathan.

Title The story of architecture / Jonathan Glancey.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  720.9 GLANCEY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  720.9 G45    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  720.9 GLANCEY    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  OV 720.9 GLA    DUE 04-04-24
Edition First American edition.
Description 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents In the beginning: Growth of cities -- Ancient Egypt -- Early Africa -- Classical world: Ancient Greece -- Ancient Rome -- From darkness to light: Byzantine architecture -- Monasteries -- Romanesque -- Islam -- North America -- Gothic: Gothic world -- Castles -- Late Gothic -- Renaissance: Renaissance Italy -- High Renaissance -- Andrea Palladio -- Italian baroque -- Baroque beyond Italy --Absolutism -- Rococo -- Low countries -- Americas: Ancient Mesoamerica -- Colonial Americas -- China and Japan: Classical China -- Japan -- Asia: India -- Southeast Asia.
Neo-classical: Neo-classical -- Classical landscape -- American classical -- French Revolution -- Greek revival -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Imperial Russia -- Industrial society: Industrial revolution -- Railways -- Industrial cities -- Augustus Pugin -- Gothic revival -- Monumental decadence -- Free style -- Morality & architecture -- Machine age: Machines for working in -- Reach for the sky -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Arts & crafts -- Art nouveau & secession -- Antoni Gaudi -- Brave new world: Revolutionary Russia -- Bauhaus -- Mass European housing -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Fascist architecture -- Le Corbusier.
Mid-century modern -- Modernism & freedom -- New cities -- Oscar Niemeyer -- Brutalism -- Every which way: Corporatism -- Postmodernism -- Extremes -- High-tech -- Architects' engineering -- Japanese metabolists -- Classical revival -- Futures: Organic architecture -- Reuse of buildings -- Deconstructivism -- Computer -- Enjoyable cities.
Subject Architecture -- History.
ISBN 0789459655
0751308102
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