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Record Nr.

UNINA9910866589903321

Autore

Harbison Robert

Titolo

Travels in the history of architecture / / Robert Harbison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-45063-8

9786612450631

1-86189-690-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Classificazione

LH 67000

Disciplina

720.9

Soggetti

Architecture - History

Architecture, Western - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Travels in the History of Architecture Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; 1 Egyptian; 2 Greek; 3 Roman; 4 Byzantine; 5 Romanesque; 6 Gothic; 7 Renaissance; 8 Mannerism; 9 Baroque; 10 Historicism; 11 Modernism I: Functionalism; 12 Modernism II: Expressionism, Constructivism and Deconstruction; Afterword; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison provides an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. The book begins its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the present day. Each chapter of this dynamic and approachable volume focuses on a movement in architectural history, including Byzantine, Baroque, Mannerism, Historicism, Functionali