Architectural styles : an historical guide to world design / by Herbert Pothorn.

Main entry:

Pothorn, Herbert.

Title & Author:

Architectural styles : an historical guide to world design / by Herbert Pothorn.

Publication:

Description:

253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Das grosse Buch der Baustile.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Antiquity. Egypt ; The Aegean -- Greece. The Acropolis of Athens -- Rome. The Pantheon ; Development and transition -- Romanesque. The Moorish style in Spain -- Gothic -- The Renaissance -- Baroque and Rococo -- Neoclassicism -- Art Nouveau -- Neue Sachlichkeit -- The present day -- Non-European civilizations. Africa ; Jericho ; Mesopotamia ; Iran ; India ; Southeast Asia ; China ; Japan ; Mesa Verde ; Mexico ; Peru -- The main features that distinguish styles -- Glossary.

ISBN:

0871966808
9780871966803
0871967847 (pbk.)
9780871967848 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
architectural ornament.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 99341
Call No.: 0000076 11506 PO326; ID:85-B1529
Status: Available

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