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100 1 _aNuttgens, Patrick
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245 1 4 _aThe story of architecture /
_cPatrick Nuttgens.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bPhaidon Press,
_c1997.
300 _a351 pages :
_billustrations (some colour) ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index.
505 0 0 _tPreface --
_g1.
_tSome Basic Facts about Architecture: Vernacular Architecture --
_g2.
_tBarbaric Splendour: The First Civilizations --
_g3.
_tThe Geometry of Immortality: Ancient Egypt --
_g4.
_tHoly Mountain and Sacred Womb: The Asian Sub-Continent --
_g5.
_tPuzzles and Modules: China and Japan --
_g6.
_tRitual of Blood: Meso-America --
_g7.
_tThe Landscape of the Gods: Ancient Greece --
_g8.
_tThe Authority of Competence: Ancient Rome --
_g9.
_tThe Worshipping Community: Early Christian and Byzantine --
_g10.
_tThe Order and the Sanctuary: Romanesque --
_g11.
_tThe Flowering of the Desert: Islam --
_g12.
_tThe Metaphysics of Light: Medieval and Gothic --
_g13.
_tThe Scale of Human Perfection: The Renaissance in Italy --
_g14.
_tCrossing the Alps: The Spread of the Renaissance --
_g15.
_tThe Drama of Shapes and Space: Baroque and Rococo --
_g16.
_tThe Prophets of Elegance: Romantic Classicism --
_g17.
_tFrom Pioneers to Establishment: The Americas and Beyond --
_g18.
_tThe Triumph of the Iron Masters: The Search for a Style --
_g19.
_tA New Vision: The Turn of the Century --
_g20.
_tDesigning for a New Society: The International Style --
_g21.
_tThe Architecture of Pluralism: The End of Certainty --
_tEpilogue --
_tMaps --
_tChronological Charts --
_tGlossary --
_tBibliography --
_tBiographies of Architects --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgements.
520 _aAn overview of world architecture from early civilizations to late 20th century pluralism.
588 _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650 0 _aArchitecture
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