Western Architecture
A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-500-20316-3 (ISBN)
Description
Western Architecture focuses both on the technological achievements of architects and on stylistic considerations, and stresses that architecture is both a part of history and an art form in its own right.
Arranged chronologically, the book is divided into chapters on Classical, Early Christian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, 19th-century revivalism, International Modernism and Post-Modernism, with each epoch's most significant architects documented and described.
A wide range of examples, both familiar buildings and many others rarely seen outside specialist books, illustrate the text, and space is given to Eastern Europe, previously neglected by architectural historians, as well as ideologically suspect styles such as Stalinist classicism.
Arranged chronologically, the book is divided into chapters on Classical, Early Christian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, 19th-century revivalism, International Modernism and Post-Modernism, with each epoch's most significant architects documented and described.
A wide range of examples, both familiar buildings and many others rarely seen outside specialist books, illustrate the text, and space is given to Eastern Europe, previously neglected by architectural historians, as well as ideologically suspect styles such as Stalinist classicism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
456 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-20316-3 (9780500203163)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ian Sutton (1929-2010) was a much-loved editor and distinguished writer on architecture.
Content
Prologue - laying the foundations - Greece and Rome; the Christian legacy of Rome; beginning again - Carolingian and Romanesque; the Gothic centuries; the Renaissance - ancient Rome reborn; Baroque and anti-Baroque; the return of classicism; "in what style shall we build?"; after style, modernism; epilogue - after modernism, style.