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A history of Western architecture /

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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 elemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watkin, David, 1941-2018 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Laurence King, 2015.
Edition:Sixth edition.
Subjects:
Architecture > History.
Architecture and society > History.
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.