Architecture: The Whole Story

Herausgeber: Jones, Denna

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fifth addition to Thames & Hudsonâ s â Whole Storyâ series is an accessible, informative introduction to the history of architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1812g
• ISBN-13: 9780500291481
• ISBN-10: 0500291489
• Artikelnr.: 40859453

Autorenporträt

Denna Jones, formerly deputy editor of Art & Architecture Journal, teaches on the MA Architecture course at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Prehistoric architecture . Neolithic Chapter 2.
Architecture in the ancient world Period . Egypt and Neo-Sumerian . Indian
Subcontinent and South East Asia . Teotihuacans . Olmec, Toltec, Mayan .
Inca . China . Japan . Minoan and Mycenean . Greek Archaic, Classical
Greece and Hellenistic Greek . Etruscan and Ancient Rome . Early Christian
and Byzantine . Islamic Chapter 3. Medieval architecture . Pre-Romanesque .
Romanesque . Gothic Chapter 4. Renaissance, Mannerism, and Baroque .
Renaissance and Mannerism . Baroque . Churrigueresque . Colonial Chapter 5.
The Enlightenment . Georgian . Neoclassical, Greek revival . Gothic revival
. Regency Chapter 6. Modern Architecture . Beaux-Arts . Art Nouveau . Art
Deco . Modernism . Organic, Expressionist Modern, and Biomimeticism .
Constructivism . International Style . Brutalism, Metabolism . Futurist,
Utopian . Postmodernism . High-Tech Modernism . Deconstructivism . New
Vernacularism and Ecoism