Architecture: From Pre-history to Postmodernism

by Trachtenberg, Marvin (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780131833654
• ISBN10: 0131833650
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Table of Contents

Color Portfolio	9	(40)
Introduction Trachtenberg	49	(7)
PART ONE The Ancient World
Architecture Before Greece Trachtenberg and Hyman	56	(34)
Prehistory	57	(5)
Egypt	62	(14)
Ancient Near East	76	(8)
Crete and Mycenae	84	(6)
Greece Trachtenberg	90	(26)
The Doric Order	92	(7)
The Ionic Order	99	(5)
Site Planning	104	(2)
Later Greek Architecture	106	(1)
The Corinthian Order	107	(2)
Hellenistic Trends	109	(2)
Civic Architecture	111	(3)
City Planning	114	(2)
Rome Trachtenberg	116	(44)
Roman Prehistory: The Etruscans	117	(3)
Roman Civilization	120	(2)
The Structural Revolution	122	(22)
The Forum and Political Life	144	(5)
Cities and Urban Life	149	(11)
PART TWO The Middle Ages
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture Trachtenberg	160	(24)
Early Christian Architecture of the Western Empire	161	(9)
Byzantine Architecture	170	(14)
Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture Trachtenberg	184	(28)
Carolingian Pre-Romanesque	185	(5)
Romanesque	190	(22)
Islam and the West Hyman	212	(10)
Origins of Islamic Architecture	213	(6)
Muslim Buildings and the Architecture of Byzantium	219	(3)
Gothic Architecture Trachtenberg	222	(54)
The Meaning of Gothic	223	(4)
Gothic in France	227	(18)
Gothic in England	245	(8)
Late Gothic in Europe	253	(23)
PART THREE The Renaissance and the Baroque
The Renaissance Hyman	276	(50)
Italy	277	(42)
France, Spain, and England	319	(7)
The Baroque Hyman	326	(48)
Baroque in Italy	327	(21)
The Seventeenth Century in France	348	(10)
Baroque and Rococo in Germany and Austria	358	(6)
Baroque and Rococo in Spain and Elsewhere	364	(2)
The Seventeenth Century in England	366	(8)
PART FOUR The Modern World
The Eighteenth Century Trachtenberg	374	(40)
The Historical Setting	375	(2)
The Age of Reason and Romanticism in England	377	(16)
The Eighteenth Century in France	393	(15)
Radical and Visionary Neoclassicism in England	408	(6)
The Nineteenth Century Trachtenberg	414	(50)
The Architectural Predicament	416	(2)
International Neoclassicism	418	(9)
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts	427	(10)
Victorian Gothic	437	(6)
The Architecture of Technology	443	(21)
Modern Architecture Trachtenberg	464	(60)
The Birth of Modern Architecture	465	(1)
Nineteenth-Century Forerunners in Theory and Practice: Viollet-le-Duc and William Morris	466	(7)
Early Modernism	473	(24)
High Modernism	497	(10)
Late Modernism	507	(17)
Second Modernism (through Post-Modernism) Trachtenberg	524	(26)
Traditionalism	525	(1)
Traditionalist Modern (and Art Deco)	526	(2)
Alternative- or Counter-Modernism	528	(6)
Post-Modernism	534	(16)
Modernisms: Renewal and Hyper-Diversity in Recent Decades Trachtenberg	550	(33)
Neomodernist Extremes: High-Tech	552	(7)
Neomodernist Oppositions: Around Deconstructivism	559	(14)
Alternative Strategies: Place, Time, and Memory	573	(10)
Glossary	583	(8)
Bibliography	591	(11)
Acknowledgments	602	(1)
Index	603	(20)
Photo Credits	623