Western architecture : from ancient Greece to the present /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Thames and Hudson,
2001.
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| Series: | World of art.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Prologue: Laying the foundations: Greece and Rome: The rule of the orders ; The urban setting ; Rome: the heir of Greece ; Vitruvius: a text for the future
- ch. 2. The Christian legacy of Rome: Constantine and the new Rome ; The Byzantine achievement ; The Byzantine legacy ; Western Europe: darkness before dawn
- ch. 3. Beginning again: Carolingian and Romanesque: The Carolingian Renaissance to c.1000 ; Germany: the imperial lands ; France: diversity in unity ; The Normans in Britain ; Romanesque in the south: Italy and Spain
- ch. 4. The Gothic centuries: How Gothic began ; The first Gothic century: France, 1150-1250 ; Gothic England ; How Gothic ended ; Secular and domestic
- ch. 5. The Renaissance: ancient Rome "reborn": Florence: the early Renaissance ; Rome: the high Renaissance ; The problem of mannerism ; A developing Renaissance ; The Renaissance outside Italy: Eastern and Central Europe ; England, France and Spain: problems of adaptation
- ch. 6. Baroque and anti-Baroque: Baroque in Italy: the seed-bed ; Central and Eastern Europe: the flowering ; Spain, Portugal and Latin America: the exotic harvest ; France: a special case ; Flanders and the Netherlands ; England and North America
- ch. 7. The return of classicism: Phases of classicism: from Palladio to the revolution ; Palaces, ministries and the neoclassical city ; Privileged domesticity ; Culture and commerece ; Classicism and Christianity ; Four architectural protraits
- ch. 8. "In what style shall we build?": Why neo-Gothic? ; Architecture and morality ; Revivals and survivals ; The new art ; Houses and homes
- ch. 9. After style, modernism: Iron, glass and honesty ; The doctrine of modernism ; Modernism and national character ; Alternatives to modernism ; Three nonconformists
- ch. 10. Epilogue: After modernism, style: The legacy of modernism ; Ingredients of post-modernism ; Variety and scale ; Present dilemmas