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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: history of Western architecture
  name:
    name part: Watkin, David
    name part: 1941-2018
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    edition: Sixth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 736 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. This new edition covers structures in other areas of the world as products of globalization, the attention paid to sustainability, energy, recycling elements of buildings, the passion for astonishing height but also architecture on a human scale and urban planning issues.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: David Watkin.
  note: Previous edition: 2011. First edition published in 1986.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 720-724) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and society
    topic: History
  classification: NA200 .W412 2015
  classification: 720/.9182/1
  identifier: 1780675976
  identifier: 9781780675978
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150112
    record change date: 20191019063610.0
    record identifier: in00003529241