The architecture book
Book - 2023
An accessible guide to the most important ideas and developments in the history of architecture, and the people behind them.
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New York, NY :
DK Publishing
2023.
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- English
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- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780744035025
9780241415030
9780241625545
- Introduction
- The Advent of Architecture Before 650 CE
- Sustaining life itself
- Shelter
- The bond between heaven and earth
- The ziggurat
- Greater than words can tell
- The pyramid
- Proportion, strength, and beauty
- The column
- Increasing the power of the voice
- The theater
- Far and wide, stupas may rise
- The stupa
- I broke the earth's veins
- The Great Wall
- Two weaknesses combine to form one strength
- The arch
- Building new houses, one after another
- Dwellings
- The temple of the whole world
- The dome
- A place for the people to gather
- The basilica
- A tower that touched the moon
- Early imperial China
- A golden dome suspended from heaven
- Byzantine
- The Middle Ages 650-1420
- The haven where man's spirit, soul, and body find refuge
- Islamic inspiration
- The ornament of the world
- Moorish architecture
- The oneness of humans with the land and sky
- The pueblo
- The physical form of God
- Indian temples
- The rebirth of golden Rome
- Romanesque
- Monumental pillars in the stream of time
- The castle
- Infinity made imaginable
- Gothic
- Architecture without architects
- Timber-frame building
- An act of piety
- Southeast Asian temples
- From the rock as if by magic grown
- Rock-cut buildings
- Heaven-sent material
- Mud
- Civic life inscribed indelibly
- Secular Gothic
- An entirely new sense of proportion
- Late imperial China
- Nothing can possibly be more graceful
- Late-flowering Gothic
- Palaces in the clouds
- Mountain cities
- The Renaissance to Revivals 15th-18th Century
- Man is the measure of all things
- The Renaissance
- A microcosm of cosmic harmony
- Italian hill towns
- Crystalline sharpness, symmetrical complexity
- The ideal city
- Extravagant inventions
- Mannerism
- Nobility without arrogance
- French and Spanish Renaissance
- A sweet harmony
- Palladianism
- Splendid buildings and remarkable domes
- The Ottoman Empire
- For the comfort of God's creatures
- The caravanserai
- A universal symbol of the heavenly archetype
- The Islamic garden
- The great peace under heaven
- Edo-period Japan
- Isfahan is half the world
- Safavid Empire
- A mind inclined entirely toward building
- Mughal India
- Those who never dare to break the rules never surpass them
- Baroque
- Emotion, grief, ecstasy, and faith
- Latin American Baroque
- Gloriously spontaneous decorations
- Rococo
- A beautiful and proportional simplicity
- Classicism
- This monument must remain for an eternity
- Russian Empire
- The Industrial Age 1800-1903
- The Age of Machinery
- The Industrial Revolution
- I strive to revive
- Gothic Revival
- Fitting together like a puzzle
- Prefabrication
- The authentic style of the old knights' castles
- Eclecticism
- The straight line cannot be found in nature
- Organic forms
- There is an attraction in the colossal
- Wrought iron
- The desire to produce beautiful things
- Arts and Crafts
- Do not the branches of the trees furnish us with models?
- Art Nouveau
- Town and country must be made one
- The garden city
- Modernism and the Alternatives 1903-1970
- Every particle is doing structural duty
- The concrete frame
- Ornament is wasted labor
- Pioneering Modernism
- One entered the city like a god
- Reviving the past
- An exhibition of force, of resolution, of brains
- The skyscraper
- Visible symbol of power
- Imperial legacy
- A structural artist
- Industrial aesthetics
- We will remember them
- War memorials
- Everything must be revolutionized
- Futurism
- Function without sensibility remains mere construction
- Expressionism
- The atmosphere of old Spain
- Spanish Colonial revisited
- Creating a new world
- Architecture of the Russian Revolution
- A house is a machine for living in
- Functionalism
- The very best possible homes for workers
- Expressive mass housing
- Every part had to speak
- Elemental architecture
- Less is more
- Building Minimalism
- Hot jazz in stone and steel
- Art Deco
- The chairs are architecture
- Architectural design
- A palace for the people
- Metro style
- The urge to demonstrate one's strength
- Statement architecture
- The new Rome will emerge
- Italian Empire
- A building should appear to grow easily from its site
- American Modern
- The humanizing of architecture
- Humane Functionalism
- The truthfulness of materials of construction
- Late Le Corbusier
- A mosaic of glass
- Postwar skyscrapers
- An architecture of elegant omission
- Mid-century Modern
- Modernism's angry underside
- Brutalism
- Sensory stimulation
- Sensual modernity
- Not simply designed but choreographed
- A new city
- Overflowing fantasy
- Free spirits
- Postmodern and Contemporary 1970 Onward
- On the edge of the possible
- Pure form
- Material as spent light
- Modern monumentalism
- A completely new world of forms
- Gridshells and webs
- I put the structure outside
- High-tech
- The past is transformed to become part of the present
- The new vernacular
- Less is a bore
- Postmodernism
- Daily life should be exalted
- Postmodern Classical
- The spiritualization of nature
- Connecting heaven and earth
- The form is interrogated
- Deconstructivism
- Harmony with nature
- Green architecture
- I work from the inside out
- Sensationalism
- The house will define my world
- Accessibility
- A living tradition
- Classical Revival
- A beautiful silence
- Soulful modern
- There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
- New forms
- Understanding architecture by understanding the environment
- West African architecture
- A deal between architecture and nature
- Modernism in Sri Lanka
- A mechanism for healing the planet
- Response to the earth
- Directory
- Glossary
- Index
- Quote Attributions
- Acknowledgments