Eyewitness Companions: Architecture: ArchitecturePenguin, 2006 M04 17 - 512 páginas Explore the world''s greatest buildings! Architecture is filled with amazing illustrations and photographs that take you to the heart of the world''s landmark buildings. Get the opportunity to look beyond the facade. Examine materials and technology that shape buildings, and identify thekey elements and decorative features of each architectural style. This is the best definitive visual guide on architecture; it covers 5,000 years of architectural design, style, and construction from airports to ziggurats. Dissects architectural wonders inside and out Includes palaces, great temples, cathedrals and towering modern skyscrapers |
Contenido
Introduction 10 | 10 |
Introducing Architecture 14 | 15 |
What Is Architecture? 16 | 17 |
The Building Blocks of Architecture 24 | 25 |
From Village to City 38 | 39 |
Ancient Near East 44 | 45 |
Ancient Egypt 52 | 53 |
The Americas 64 | 65 |
Romanesque 228 | 229 |
Gothic 244 | 245 |
The Renaissance 270 | 271 |
Italian Renaissance 276 | 277 |
Renaissance Beyond Italy 290 | 291 |
Baroque Rococo 304 | 305 |
Baroque 310 | 311 |
Rococo 330 | 331 |
Central North America 68 | 69 |
South America 76 | 77 |
The Classical World 82 | 83 |
Ancient Greece 88 | 89 |
Roman Architecture 104 | 105 |
Early Christian Byzantine Architecture 122 | 123 |
India Southeast Asia 134 | 135 |
Indian Architecture 140 | 141 |
Southeast Asia 150 | 151 |
East Asia 160 | 161 |
China 164 | 165 |
Japan Korea 178 | 179 |
The Islamic World 188 | 189 |
The First Mosques 194 | 195 |
Persia Mughal India 210 | 211 |
Medieval Europe 222 | 223 |
Classical Revival 340 | 341 |
Neoclassicism 344 | 345 |
Neoclassicism in the United States 364 | 365 |
The Industrial World 372 | 373 |
The Machine Age 378 | 379 |
Gothic Revival 396 | 397 |
Nostalgia Whimsy 408 | 409 |
The Modern World 424 | 425 |
Modernism 430 | 431 |
Traditionalism 450 | 451 |
The Contemporary World 468 | 469 |
Glossary 496 | 496 |
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