| Description |
352 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 35.Altes Museum -- 36.Thorvaldsen Museum -- 37.Wharenui -- 38.Stockholm Public Library -- 39.Fallingwater -- 40.Casa Malaparte -- 41.Saynatsalo Town Hall -- 42.National Parliament -- 43.Trellick Tower -- ch. 3 Sacred -- 44.Mortuary Temple Of Hatshepsut -- 45.Temple Of Solomon -- 46.St Catherine's Monastery -- 47.Hagia Sophia -- 48.Dome Of The Rock -- 49.Malwiya -- 50.Mausoleum Of Ismail Samani -- 51.Chapel Of St John -- 52.Durham Cathedral -- 53.Chartres Cathedral -- 54.Minaret Of Jam -- 55.Angkor Thom -- 56.Rock-Cut Churches -- 57.Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple -- 58.Janggyeong Panjeon -- 59.Basilica Of San Lorenzo -- 60.Santa Maria Dei Miracoli -- 61.Hanging Temple -- 62.The New Sacristy -- 63.Imam Mosque -- 64.Taj Mahal -- 65.Temple Expiatori De La Sagrada Familia -- 66.Great Mosque -- 67.Church Of The Sacred Heart -- 68.Notre Dame Du Haut -- ch. 4 Urban Visions -- 69.Uruk -- 70.Persepolis -- 71.Petra -- 72.Leptis Magna -- 73.Palmyra -- 74.Palenque -- |
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Contents note continued: 75.Machu Picchu -- 76.Place Des Vosges -- 77.The Circus -- 78.Sydney Opera House -- ch. 5 Big And Beautiful -- 79.Great Pyramid At Giza -- 80.Great Wall Of China -- 81.TAQ-I Kisra -- 82.Forbidden City -- ch. 6 Material Matters -- 83.The Barley Barn -- 84.Ca' D'Oro -- 85.Shibam -- 86.Himeji Castle -- 87.Church Of The Transfiguration -- 88.Beurs Van Berlage -- 89.The Majolikahaus -- 90.Marshcourt -- 91.Art Gallery Of Ontario -- 92.Farnsworth House -- 93.Hopkins House -- 94.Lloyd's Of London -- 95.Rozak House -- ch. 7 Lost And Found -- 96.Ishtar Gate -- 97.Frauenkirche -- 98.Catherine Palace -- 99.Euston Arch -- 100.Hatra |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Pioneers -- 1.Step Pyramid Of Djoser -- 2.Temple Of Apollo Epicurius -- 3.The Pantheon -- 4.Palazzo Rucellai -- 5.Villa Almerico Capra -- 6.Chateau De Vaux-Le-Vicomte -- 7.Marshall, Benyon, And Bage's Flax Mill -- 8.Dulwich Picture Gallery -- 9.The Palm House -- 10.E V Haughwout Building -- 11.Oriel Chambers -- 12.St Pancras Station -- 13.Guaranty Building -- 14.Flatiron Building -- 15.Woolworth Building -- 16.Aeg Turbine Hall -- 17.The Steiner House -- 18.The Rietveld Schroder House -- 19.The Bauhaus -- 20.The Lovell Health House -- 21.Narkomfin Apartment Building -- 22.La Maison De Verre -- 23.Chrysler Building -- 24.Villa Savoye -- 25.Salginatobel Bridge -- 26.The Melnikov House -- 27.Seagram Building -- ch. 2 Rhetoric (Building With A Message) -- 28.Tower Of The Winds -- 29.Crac Des Chevaliers -- 30.Alhambra -- 31.Rushton Triangular Lodge -- 32.Old Shoin And The New Palace -- 33.Easton Neston -- 34.Bhutanese Farmhouse -- |
| Summary |
Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end. It is a story that can never be completed - not as long as mankind continues to build, to invent, to discover; it is the story told in this book. The history of architecture is also a history of many other things - of politics, economy, religion, of science, ecology and of art and culture generally - and so is essentially a history of the world. For architecture - in its forms and functions - is a very direct mirror of mankind's desires, concerns and aspirations. Journeying across the world, from Syria to Shrewsbury, Sudan to Southern Spain, Dan Cruickshank explores man's most impressive creations. Not only the bastions of defence and aggression; homes for the gods and the dead; temples of commerce and the arts; palaces to express taste, power and wealth; and shrines of science, of learning, knowledge and politics - but also of mammon and of physical and spiritual oppression and incarceration. Can an ignoble cause create great architecture, can a prison be a thing of beauty as well as of power? These are perennial philosophical questions this book seeks to answer. Ingeniously structured by theme, this book surveys civilisation through the pioneers, visionaries, follies, ancients, rhetoric, scale, survivals and revivals of its greatest constructions. Together, the stories in this beautifully illustrated book offer a stupendous global cultural history - a history that is full of mystery and ripe for rediscovery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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Buildings.
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Historic buildings -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| LC no. |
2015487438 |
| ISBN |
1770855998 |
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9781770855991 |
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