TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watkin,David
TI  - A history of Western architecture
SN  - 9781856697903 (pbk.) :
AV  - NA200 .W412 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, Great Britain
PB  - Laurence King Pub.
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture
KW  - fast
N1  - Previous edition: 2005; Includes bibliographical references (pages 704-708) and index; Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The classical foundation : Greek, Hellenistic, Roman -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian and Romanesque -- The Gothic experiment -- Renaissance harmony -- Baroque expansion -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The nineteenth-century -- Art nouveau -- The twentieth century -- The twenty-first century
N2  - In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments
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