A history of Western architecture / David Watkin.

By:

Watkin, David, 1941-

Language: İngilizce Publisher: London, Great Britain : Laurence King Pub., 2011Edition: 5th edDescription: 720 pages : illustration (some colourful) ; 24 cmISBN:

9781856697903

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

NA200 .W38 2011

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.

Summary: In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reserve-3h	Merkez Kütüphane Ayrılmış Ders Kitapları / Course Reserves	Merkez Kütüphane	Ayrılmış ders kitapları	RES NA200 .W38 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		0043302

Previous ed.: 2005.

In his highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments.

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