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Antiquity :origins, classicism and the new Rome

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This is the first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world. "Antiquity" traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish. Highly illustrated, with 1,200 colour photographs and 400 drawings, the book is divided into ten sections progressing through time: West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, Pre-Columbian America, Hellenic Hellenes Divided; Macedonians Ascendant Etruscans and Hellenistic Romans, Imperial Rome Christianity, and Empire Rome, and New Rome; The West: Imperial Revival and the Latin Cross; and The East: Imperial Survival and the Greek Cross. More than a catalogue of buildings, in this work Tadgell provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts and explores architecture, not only as the development of form and space but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolves. The buildings are analyzed and illustrated with photographs and drawings while the societies that produced them are brought to life through a broad selection of their artefacts

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The East: buddhists, hindus and the sons of heaven

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Continuing the "Architecture in Context" series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Japanese archipelago, over a period extending from prehistory to the arrival of Islam and its distinct traditions from the eleventh century onwards. Fantastically illustrated, with over 1,000 photographs and drawings, Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of India, China, Thailand and Japan as well as the spectacular architecture of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Korea, Myenmar, Bhutan and Tibet. As with the first volume - "Antiquity" - "The East" presents not only the buildings themselves, but the cultures and peoples that they are a part of. Unprecedented in its scope, this volume is a beautiful guide to the fascinating history of Eastern architecture.

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Islam from the Medina to the Magreb and from the Indies to Istanbul

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This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community, it forms a response to the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran, was given a range of forms as the conquests of Islam came up against the traditions of Egypt, Persia, India and China. The tradition developed further in tombs, palaces and fortifications, all of which are described and illustrated here. The architecture of "Islam" encompasses a high proportion of the world's most beautiful buildings. This book covers the whole range in unprecedented breadth and depth.

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Imperial Form: From Achaemenid Iran to Augustan Rome

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This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".

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Origins: Egypt, West Asia and the Aegean

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This book tells the story of human habitation in the western world from the earliest signs of settlement in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys to the Mesopotamian palaces of the 2nd millennium BC. It locates the origin of architectural form in the contrasting lives and beliefs of nomadic hunters and pastoralists on the one hand and the first farmers on the other, and traces the expression of those beliefs - sometimes in conflict, sometimes in combination - in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete and the Aegean, and Anatolia. This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".

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Imperial Space: Rome, Constantinople and the Early Church

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Following the reign of Augustus at the end of the 1st century BC, the Roman republic survived for four centuries in the west, and 14 in the east. This book follows the evolution of architecture through this period, which saw the liberation of building from the limitations of traditional masonry construction, and of planning from the constraints of the rectangle, producing such monuments as the Pantheon, Hadrian's Villa, and the Palace of Diocletian at Split. This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".

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Four caliphates : the formation of the Islamic tradition

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This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt, Persia, and China. The book also explains the development of the tradition in tombs, palaces and fortifications.

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Hellenic classicism : the ordering of form in the ancient Greek world

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This book describes the development of classical architecture in the countries bordering the Aegean Sea from the 6th to the 3rd century BC. It is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".

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India and South-East Asia: The Buddhist and Hindu Tradition

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Firmly rooted in Indian religion, cosmology and society, this book describes the evolution of architecture on the Indian sub-continent and the neighbouring countries of south-east Asia from the earliest times to the rise of Islam at the end of the 11th century in the north and in the 17th century in the south. This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".