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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: The
    title: story of architecture
  name:
    name part: Rybczynski, Witold
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 348 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic and social changes and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi's Duomo to living spaces such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and the Alhambra, national icons such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Sydney Opera House, and skyscrapers such as the Seagram Building and Beijing's CCTV headquarters. Rybczynski's narrative emphasizes the ways that buildings across time and space are united by the human desire for order, meaning and beauty. Engaging and accessible, this is a coherent story of architecture's physical manifestation of the universal aspiration to celebrate, honor, and commemorate, and an exploration of the ways that each building is a unique product of individual patrons, architects, and builders. Firm in opinion, even-handed, and rooted in scholarship, this book will delight anyone interested in understanding the buildings they use, visit, and pass by each day.
  table of contents: The ancients -- Middle ages -- A reimagined world -- Tje first moderns -- New building -- After modernism.
  note: Witold Rybczynski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-338) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / History / General
  classification: NA200 .R83 2022
  classification: 720.9
  identifier: 0300246064
  identifier: 9780300246063
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220909
    record change date: 20250816185317.4
    record identifier: in00004633805