A history of Western architecture / David Watkin.

By: Watkin, David, 1941-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London, Great Britain : Laurence King Publishing, 2011Edition: Fifth editionDescription: 720 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: 36 Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781856697903; 1856697908Subject(s): Architecture and society -- History | Architecture -- HistoryGenre/Form: History. | NonfictionDDC classification: 720.91821 LOC classification: NA200 | .W412 2011
Contents:
Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The classical foundation : Greek, Hellenistic, Roman -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian and Romanesque -- The Gothic experiment -- Renaissance harmony -- Baroque expansion -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The nineteenth-century -- Art nouveau -- The .twentieth century -- The twenty-first century
Summary: In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on .twenty-first century developments
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.Previous edition: 2005

Includes bibliographical references :p. (704-708)and index.

Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The classical foundation : Greek, Hellenistic, Roman -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian and Romanesque -- The Gothic experiment -- Renaissance harmony -- Baroque expansion -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The nineteenth-century -- Art nouveau -- The .twentieth century -- The twenty-first century

In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on .twenty-first century developments

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