A World History of Architecture

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Laurence King Publishing, 2003 - Architecture - 592 pages
The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.
 

Contents

PREFACE
THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE
Ancient Egypt
The Middle Kingdom 30
Chinese Architectural Principles 90
Houses and Gardens
Japanese Cities Houses and Castles
CHAPTER 6
Other Renaissance City Plans 308
30
Donato Bramante
30
Michelangelo 323
30
Andrea Palladio 330
30
Pope Sixtus V and the Replanning of Rome
30
Francesco Borromini 362
30
The Spread of Baroque Architecture to Northern Italy
30
The Baroque in France 381
30

Byzantine Basilicas and Domed Basilicas
Byzantine Churches in Russia 155
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
2
Houses Palaces and Urban Patterns 184
11
CHAPTER 8
11
AngloSaxon and Viking Architecture
11
Romanesque Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire
11
The Order of Cluny
9-4
Cistercian Monasteries
9-12
CHAPTER
9-14
CHAPTER
9-16
NINETEENTHCENTURY
9-20
THE GREEK WORLD
9-39
The Archaic Period
9-47
CHAPTER 10
9-58
Mexico Central America and South America 283
14
The Toltecs in the Valley of Mexico 291
20
RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 295
24
Michelozzo Bartolomeo and the Palazzo Medici 302
30
Christopher Wren and the Baroque in England 388
30
NeoClassicism 420
30
The English NeoPalladians 398
30
343
30
Karl Friedrich Schinkel 420
30
The Gothic Revival
30
Progress in Iron Fabrication
30
Skeletal Construction in Concrete and Wood 448
30
The Viennese Secession
30
The Hellenistic Period
60
MODERNISMS IN THE MID AND LATE
68
Robert Venturis Radical CounterProposal to Modernism
76
Robert A M Stern 549
86
Peter Eisenman 557
94
Glenn Murcutt 563
100
BIBLIOGRAPHY 572
109
Roman Architecture
113
Temples 123
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