A history of Western architecture /
Watkin, David, 1941-,
A history of Western architecture / David Watkin. - 5th edition - 720 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 704-708) and index.
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.
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.
9781856697903 (pbk.) : $40.00 1856697908 (pbk.)
Architecture--History.
NA 200 / .W412 2011
720.9 / W.D.H
A history of Western architecture / David Watkin. - 5th edition - 720 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 704-708) and index.
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.
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.
9781856697903 (pbk.) : $40.00 1856697908 (pbk.)
Architecture--History.
NA 200 / .W412 2011
720.9 / W.D.H