The Story of Architecture

by Glancey, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780789459657
• ISBN10: 0789459655
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-04
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

This beautifully illustrated book features photographs, plans and diagrams that help put significant periods into historical, geographical and cultural contexts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(1)
Preface	7	(1)
Introduction	8	(4)
In the Beginning	12	(12)
The Growth of Cities	14	(4)
Ancient Egypt	18	(4)
Early Africa	22	(2)
The Classical World	24	(12)
Ancient Greece	26	(4)
Ancient Rome	30	(6)
From Darkness to Light	36	(16)
Byzantine Architecture	38	(4)
Monasteries	42	(2)
Romanesque	44	(2)
Islam	46	(4)
North Africa	50	(2)
Gothic	52	(14)
The Gothic World	54	(8)
Castles	62	(2)
Late Gothic	64	(2)
The Renaissance	66	(26)
Renaissance Italy	68	(4)
High Renaissance	72	(4)
Andrea Palladio	76	(2)
Italian Baroque	78	(4)
Baroque Beyond Italy	82	(4)
Absolutism	86	(2)
Rococo	88	(2)
Low Countries	90	(2)
The Americas	92	(8)
Ancient Mesoamerica	94	(4)
Colonial Americas	98	(2)
China and Japan	100	(10)
Classical China	102	(4)
Japan	106	(4)
Asia	110	(8)
India	112	(4)
Southeast Asia	116	(2)
Neo-Classical	118	(16)
Neo-classical	120	(2)
The Classical Landscape	122	(2)
American Classical	124	(2)
The French Revolution	126	(2)
Greek Revival	128	(2)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel	130	(2)
Imperial Russia	132	(2)
The Industrial Society	134	(22)
Industrial Revolution	136	(6)
Railways	142	(2)
Industrial Cities	144	(2)
Augustus Pugin	146	(2)
Gothic Revival	148	(2)
Monumental Decadence	150	(2)
Free Style	152	(2)
Morality & Architecture	154	(2)
The Machine Age	156	(14)
Machines for Working In	158	(2)
Reach for the Sky	160	(2)
Frank Lloyd Wright	162	(2)
Arts & Crafts	164	(2)
Art Nouveau & Secession	166	(2)
Antoni Gaudi	168	(2)
Brave New World	170	(44)
Revolutionary Russia	172	(2)
The Bauhaus	174	(2)
Mass European Housing	176	(2)
Ludwing Mies van der Rohe	178	(2)
Fascist Architecture	180	(2)
Le Corbusier	182	(2)
Mid-Century Modern	184	(2)
Modernism & Freedom	186	(2)
New Cities	188	(2)
Oscar Niemeyer	190	(2)
Brutalism	192	(4)
Every Which Way
Corporatism	196	(2)
Postmodernism	198	(4)
Extremes	202	(2)
High-tech	204	(4)
Architects' Engineering	208	(2)
Japanese Metabolists	210	(2)
The Classical Revival	212	(2)
Futures	214	(16)
Organic Architecture	216	(2)
Reuse of Buildings	218	(2)
Deconstructivism	220	(4)
The Computer	224	(2)
Enjoyable Cities	226	(4)
Glossary	230	(4)
Index	234	(6)
Acknowledgments	240