http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Book illuminates world architecture from ancient to modern times. Over 800 illustrations, 400 in full color, 320 drawings created as special cut-away drawings depicting the insides of buildings.
Foreword / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner -- Introduction / John Julius Norwich -- The Exotic worlds -- China and Japan / William Watson -- India / Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Pre-hispanic / John Julius Norwich -- The Ancient world -- Mesoptamia and the near east / Seton Lloyd -- Egypt / Robin Fedden -- The Aegean / Peter Kidson -- Rome / Peter Kidson -- The Middle ages -- Early Christian, Byzantine and Carolingian / John Julius Norwich and Alec Clifton-Taylor -- Romanesque / Alec Clifton-Taylor -- Castles / John Thomson -- Gothic / Alec Clifton-Taylor -- Islam / Robin Fedden -- The Renaissance -- Italian Renaissance / Peter Murray -- Spread of the Renaissance/ Anthony Blunt and James Lees-Milne -- Baroque / Anthony Blunt and James Lees-Milne -- Colonial styles / Anthony Blunt -- The Modern Age -- The Nineteenth century / J.M. Richards and Hugh Casson -- New Beginnings / J.M. Richards and Dennis Sharp -- Developments since 1918 / J.M. Richards and Dennis Sharp.