TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glancey,Jonathan
TI  - The story of architecture
SN  - 9780751348811 (pbk.) :
AV  - NA200 .G527 2000
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Dorling Kindersley
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - Bouwkunst
KW  - gtt
N1  - Previous ed.: 2000; Includes index; In the beginning: Growth of cities -- Ancient Egypt -- Early Africa -- Classical world: Ancient Greece -- Ancient Rome -- From darkness to light: Byzantine architecture -- Monasteries -- Romanesque -- Islam -- North America -- Gothic: Gothic world -- Castles -- Late Gothic -- Renaissance: Renaissance Italy -- High Renaissance -- Andrea Palladio -- Italian baroque -- Baroque beyond Italy --Absolutism -- Rococo -- Low countries -- Americas: Ancient Mesoamerica -- Colonial Americas -- China and Japan: Classical China -- Japan -- Asia: India -- Southeast Asia --; Neo-classical: Neo-classical -- Classical landscape -- American classical -- French Revolution -- Greek revival -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Imperial Russia -- Industrial society: Industrial revolution -- Railways -- Industrial cities -- Augustus Pugin -- Gothic revival -- Monumental decadence -- Free style -- Morality & architecture -- Machine age: Machines for working in -- Reach for the sky -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Arts & crafts -- Art nouveau & secession -- Antoni Gaudi -- Brave new world: Revolutionary Russia -- Bauhaus -- Mass European housing -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Fascist architecture -- Le Corbusier --; Mid-century modern -- Modernism & freedom -- New cities -- Oscar Niemeyer -- Brutalism -- Every which way: Corporatism -- Postmodernism -- Extremes -- High-tech -- Architects' engineering -- Japanese metabolists -- Classical revival -- Futures: Organic architecture -- Reuse of buildings -- Deconstructivism -- Computer -- Enjoyable cities
N2  - An illustrated study of architecture spans some five thousand years as it captures the finest achievements of human construction; discusses a variety of architectural styles and movements; and profiles some of the world's great architects, past and present
ER  -