'isms: Understanding Architectural StylesFollowing the success of Isms: Understanding Art, this engaging and informative guide to the significant "isms" of architectural history spans from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and the Renaissance up to the present day. Each spread is devoted to a distinct architectural movement and explains when it first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, the principal disputes over its applicability, and illustrates important structures, practitioners, key words, and distinctive features. From Hellenic Classicism and Expressionism to Brutalism and Blobism, with many stops along the way, these sixty well illustrated and clearly defined "isms" help put all of the "built environments" of the world into context. |
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Contents | 8 |
Hellenic Classicism Mannerism Structural | 18 |
Confucianism Pietism | 59 |
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19th century adapted aesthetic ANDREA PALLADIO Anglican Empiricism Anti-Urbanism arch architects architectural tradition AUGUSTUS PUGIN Baroque became Brutalism building types BUILDINGS UK Burlington Cathedral Centre CHARLES Christian Classicism church columns complex Confucianism construction Constructivism Corbusier Corporatism create cultural Deconstructivism Decorative Industrialism developed dome Ecoism Empiricism England Exoticism Expressionism FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI Florence forms France FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Functionalism Georgian Urbanism Germany Gothic Scholasticism Hall Hellenic Classicism House Humanism Idealism ideas Imperialism India Indism Indo-Khmerism influence Inventionism inventive Islamicism isms John KEY BUILDINGS Le Corbusier London LOUIS SULLIVAN materials Medievalism Metabolism Metarationalism MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMMEO Modernism Modernist Monumental Urbanism Mosque Museum Neo-Rationalism Neoclassicism ornament Palace Palazzo Palladianism Paris Pietism Postmodernism Pre-Classicism Pre-Columbianism Proto-Classicism Purism Regional Classicism relationship Renaissance Rococo Roman Classicism Rome Santa Maria Scholasticism Shintoism Skyscraperism SMITHSON social space Structural Rationalism Sublimism symbolic Technoism Temple Totalitarianism Tower Usonianism Victorianism Vienna Villa WILLIAM