A World History of Architecture

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Laurence King Publishing, 2003 - 592 pages
The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.
 

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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1
Ancient Egypt 22
CHAPTER 2
The Archaic Period
The Hellenistic Period
47
Other Renaissance City Plans 308
58
Donato Bramante
58
Michelangelo 323
58
Andrea Palladio 330
58
Palladios Venice 336
58
The Renaissance in England
58
Pope Sixtus V and the Replanning of Rome 355
58
Francesco Borromini
58

CHAPTER 4
Principles of City Planning 93
Japanese Temple Architecture
Katsura
Roman Architecture 113
Temples 123
Residences 132
CHAPTER 6
Byzantine Basilicas and Domed Basilicas
Byzantine Churches in Russia 155
CHAPTER 7
Houses Palaces and Urban Patterns 184
CHAPTER
2
AngloSaxon and Viking Architecture 198
9
Pilgrimage Roads 210
11
Aquitaine and Provence 217
11
CHAPTER
14
Norman Architecture
15
CHAPTER
16
NINETEENTHCENTURY
20
Early Gothic 230
21
High Gothic 236
27
English Gothic 245
36
German and Italian Gothic 255
46
Medieval Construction 262
53
CHAPTER 10
58
Mexico Central America and South America 283
58
CHAPTER 11
58
Michelozzo Bartolomeo and the Palazzo Medici 302
58
The Spread of Baroque Architecture to Northern Italy
58
The Baroque in France 381
58
Christopher Wren and the Baroque in England 388
58
NeoClassicism 420
58
CHAPTER 13
58
EtienneLouis Boullée and ClaudeNicolas Ledoux 405
58
French Architectural Education and the Ecole
58
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
58
The Gothic Revival
58
Progress in Iron Fabrication
58
Skeletal Construction in Concrete and Wood 448
58
The Viennese Secession
67
Louis Henri Sullivan 467
74
Adolf Loos 477
81
Peter Behrens and the Deutscher Werkbund 487
92
Art Deco
98
Exploiting the Potential of Concrete
106
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 515
118
Later Work of Mies van der Rohe 520
124
Later Work of Le Corbusier 528
131
MODERNISMS IN THE MID AND LATE
136
Robert Venturis Radical CounterProposal to Modernism
144
Robert A M Stern 549
154
Peter Eisenman 557
162
Glenn Murcutt 563
168
BIBLIOGRAPHY 572
285
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QR code for A World History of Architecture
TitreA World History of Architecture
Monographics (Series : Laurence King Publishing)
AuteursMarian Moffett, Michael W. Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurLaurence King Publishing, 2003
ISBN1856693716, 9781856693714
Longueur592 pages
  
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