Glancey, Jonathan

Architecture : a visual history / Jonathan Glancey. - Great Britain : Dorling Kindersly Limited, c2021. - 416 pages : colored illustrations ; 24 cm.

"Content previously published in 2006 as Eyewitness Companions: Architecture" -- Colophon
Includes index

Includes glossary and index.

Intrioduction. -- From village to city (Ancient Near East ; Ancient Egypt). -- The Americas (Central and North America ; South America). -- The classical world (Ancient Greece ; Roman architecture ; Early Christian and Byzantine architecture). -- India and southeast Asia (Indian architecture ; Southeast Asia). -- East Asia (China ; Japan and Korea). -- The Islamic world (The first mosques ; Persia and Mughal India). -- Medieval Europe (Romanesque ; Gothic). -- The Renaissance (Italian renaissance ; Renaissance beyond Italy). -- Baroque and Rococo (Baroque ; Rococo). -- Classical revival (Neo-Classicism ; Neo-Classicism in the USA). -- The industrial world (The Machine Age ; Gothic revival ; Nostalgia and whimsy). -- The modern world (Modernism ; Traditionalism ; Contemporary architecture). -- Glossary. --

978-0-2415-1490-0


ARCHITECTURE.
ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING.
HISTORY.
ARCHITECTURE HISTORY.

NA 200 G53 2021