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Title: A WORLD HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
By: Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse
Format: Paperback

List price: £32.00


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ISBN 10: 1856695492
ISBN 13: 9781856695497
Publisher: LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 25 January, 2008
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 608
Description: Comprises a survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. This text encourages readers to examine the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings. It also discusses artistic, political, social and technological contexts.
Synopsis: 'Takes on Banister Fletcher on his own ground and beats him hollow with a combination of lucid, well informed text and pictures ...the images make browsing a pleasure ...if I were teaching a survey course of architectural history, I would choose this as the course book' - "Art Quarterly". Updated and improved for the new edition, this is a core student text with course adoptions around the world. This book comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. This text encourages readers to examine the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social and technological contexts are discussed.
Illustrations: 569 illustrations, 339 in colour
Publication: UK
Imprint: Laurence King Publishing
Returns: Returnable
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