Architecture /

Glancey, Jonathan.

Architecture / Jonathan Glancey. - 1st American ed. - London ; New York : DK, c2006. - 512 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. - Eyewitness companions .

Previously published as: Story of architecture. Includes index.

Introducing architecture. What is architecture? -- The building blocks of architecture -- From village to city. Ancient Middle East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Americas. Central & North America -- South America -- The classical world. Ancient Greece -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian & Byzantine architecture -- India & Southeast Asia. Indian architecture -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia. China -- Japan & Korea -- The Islamic world. The first mosques -- Persia & Mughal India -- Medieval Europe. Romanesque -- Gothic -- The Renaissance. Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance beyond Italy -- Baroque & Rococo. Baroque -- Rococo -- Classical revival. Neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- The industrial world. The machine age -- Gothic revival -- Nostalgia & whimsy -- The modern world. Modernism -- Traditionalism -- The contemporary world.

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Architecture--History.

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