A world history of architecture
"In about 40 B.C.E. 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 sur...
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Boston :
McGraw-Hill
2008
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000215989708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The beginnings of architecture
- The Greek world
- The architecture of ancient India and southeast Asia
- Traditional architecture of China and Japan
- The Roman world
- Early Christian and Byzantine architecture
- Islamic architecture
- Early Medieval and Romanesque architecture
- Gothic architecture
- Indigenous architecture in the Americas and Africa
- Renaissance architecture
- Baroque architecture
- The eighteenth century
- Nineteenth-century developments
- The twentieth century and modernism
- Modernisms in the mid- and late-twenty-first [i.e. twentieth] century and beyond
