Resumen:
Architecture.This book is a pictorial survey of the main styles of western architecture. A short section on early man and sections on the Far East, the pre-Columbian Americas and Islamic architecture round out the story, but in the main the book concentrates on the structures that dominate the western world: the great classical buildings of Greece and Rome; the religious and military architecture of the feudal period; the flowering of the European Renaissance and its development into the baroque and rococo buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries; the fantastic range of Victorian architecture, from heavy engineering to Neoclassical revivalism; the explosion of styles and skyscrapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the modernism and postmodernism of the latter 20th century. Generously sized photographs ensure this substantial book gives a broad coverage to both public and vernacular architecture. |
