Architecture, from prehistory to postmodernity / Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman.

Main entry:

Trachtenberg, Marvin.

Title & Author:

Architecture, from prehistory to postmodernity / Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Description:

624 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-601) and index.
pt. 1. The Ancient World -- Ch. 1. Architecture Before Greece -- Ch. 2. Greece -- Ch. 3. Rome -- pt. 2. The Middle Ages -- Ch. 4. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture -- Ch. 5. Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture -- Ch. 6. Islam and the West -- Ch. 7. Gothic Architecture -- pt. 3. The Renaissance and the Baroque -- Ch. 8. The Renaissance -- Ch. 9. The Baroque -- pt. 4. The Modern World -- Ch. 10. The Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 11. The Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 12. Modern Architecture -- Ch. 13. Second Modernism (through Post-Modernism) -- Ch. 14. Modernisms: Renewal and Hyper-Diversity in Recent Decades.

Summary:

Moving back and forth between the long shot on historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this insightful, lively and original analysis also accepts the conventional period and thematic structures of architectural history and the canon of great buildings. Designed to help readers understand and appreciate what great architecture is in its full dimensions of use, structure and aesthetic qualities as well as its history, this lavishly illustrated book explains specific qualities of each period and the often-complex illuminating differences between the periods. This comprehensive volume examines all aspects of architectural history from the Ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Baroque periods through the modern world. For historians and architectural enthusiasts.

ISBN:

0810906074
9780810906075
0130918415 (Prentice Hall/hc)
9780130918413 (Prentice Hall/hc)
2900130918412
0131830651
9780131830653

Subject:

Architecture History.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.
Bouwkunst.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Hyman, Isabelle.
Trachtenberg, Marvin. Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325615
Call No.: 325615
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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