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- catalog abstract ""The history of architecture is not just a matter of dates, architects and styles, but also the way buildings are experienced and the ideas that lie behind them. And architecture itself is both a utilitarian activity - people have to live, work and worship in buildings - and a visual art, as expressive and exciting as painting and sculpture. This book traces the way in which, over two and a half millennia, these two processes have (usually happily) co-existed. In a new, refreshingly readable telling of an old story the author shows how social and technological changes have conditioned the way buildings were conceived, from Greece and Rome through the Early Christian, Romanesque and Gothic centuries to the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical periods, leading to the astonishing flowering of opportunities and skills in the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated throughout with photographs closely linked to the text, this is a guide for the student and general reader to follow into the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11185871.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""The history of architecture is not just a matter of dates, architects and styles, but also the way buildings are experienced and the ideas that lie behind them. And architecture itself is both a utilitarian activity - people have to live, work and worship in buildings - and a visual art, as expressive and exciting as painting and sculpture. This book traces the way in which, over two and a half millennia, these two processes have (usually happily) co-existed. In a new, refreshingly readable telling of an old story the author shows how social and technological changes have conditioned the way buildings were conceived, from Greece and Rome through the Early Christian, Romanesque and Gothic centuries to the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical periods, leading to the astonishing flowering of opportunities and skills in the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated throughout with photographs closely linked to the text, this is a guide for the student and general reader to follow into the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "England, France and Spain: problems of adaptation -- ch. 6. Baroque and anti-Baroque: Baroque in Italy: the seed-bed ; Central and Eastern Europe: the flowering ; Spain, Portugal and Latin America: the exotic harvest ; France: a special case ; Flanders and the Netherlands ; England and North America -- ch. 7. The return of classicism: Phases of classicism: from Palladio to the revolution ; Palaces, ministries and the neoclassical city ; Privileged domesticity ; Culture and commerce ; Classicism and Christianity ; Four architectural portraits -- ch. 8. "In what style shall we build?": Why neo-Gothic? ; Architecture and morality ; Revivals and survivals ; The new art ; Houses and homes -- ch. 9. After style, modernism: Iron, glass and honesty ; The doctrine of modernism ; Modernism and national character ; Alternatives to modernism ; Three nonconformists -- ch. 10. Epilogue: After modernism, style:".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 375) and index.".
- catalog description "The legacy of modernism ; Ingredients of post-modernism ; Variety and scale ; Present dilemmas".
- catalog description "ch. 1. Prologue: Laying the foundations: Greece and Rome: The rule of the orders ; The urban setting ; Rome: the heir of Greece ; Vitruvius: a text for the future -- ch. 2. The Christian legacy of Rome: Constantine and the new Rome ; The Byzantine achievement ; The Byzantine legacy ; Western Europe: darkness before dawn -- ch. 3. Beginning again: Carolingian and Romanesque: The Carolingian Renaissance to c.1000 ; Germany: the imperial lands ; France: diversity in unity ; The Normans in Britain ; Romanesque in the south: Italy and Spain -- ch. 4. The Gothic centuries: How Gothic began ; The first Gothic century: France, 1150-1250 ; Gothic England ; How Gothic ended ; Secular and domestic -- ch. 5. The Renaissance: ancient Rome "reborn": Florence: the early Renaissance ; Rome: the high Renaissance ; The problem of mannerism ; A developing Renaissance ; The Renaissance outside Italy: Eastern and Central Europe ;".
- catalog extent "384 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0500203164".
- catalog isPartOf "World of art".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Thames and Hudson,".
- catalog subject "720/.9 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture History.".
- catalog subject "NA200 .S93 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "England, France and Spain: problems of adaptation -- ch. 6. Baroque and anti-Baroque: Baroque in Italy: the seed-bed ; Central and Eastern Europe: the flowering ; Spain, Portugal and Latin America: the exotic harvest ; France: a special case ; Flanders and the Netherlands ; England and North America -- ch. 7. The return of classicism: Phases of classicism: from Palladio to the revolution ; Palaces, ministries and the neoclassical city ; Privileged domesticity ; Culture and commerce ; Classicism and Christianity ; Four architectural portraits -- ch. 8. "In what style shall we build?": Why neo-Gothic? ; Architecture and morality ; Revivals and survivals ; The new art ; Houses and homes -- ch. 9. After style, modernism: Iron, glass and honesty ; The doctrine of modernism ; Modernism and national character ; Alternatives to modernism ; Three nonconformists -- ch. 10. Epilogue: After modernism, style:".
- catalog tableOfContents "The legacy of modernism ; Ingredients of post-modernism ; Variety and scale ; Present dilemmas".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. Prologue: Laying the foundations: Greece and Rome: The rule of the orders ; The urban setting ; Rome: the heir of Greece ; Vitruvius: a text for the future -- ch. 2. The Christian legacy of Rome: Constantine and the new Rome ; The Byzantine achievement ; The Byzantine legacy ; Western Europe: darkness before dawn -- ch. 3. Beginning again: Carolingian and Romanesque: The Carolingian Renaissance to c.1000 ; Germany: the imperial lands ; France: diversity in unity ; The Normans in Britain ; Romanesque in the south: Italy and Spain -- ch. 4. The Gothic centuries: How Gothic began ; The first Gothic century: France, 1150-1250 ; Gothic England ; How Gothic ended ; Secular and domestic -- ch. 5. The Renaissance: ancient Rome "reborn": Florence: the early Renaissance ; Rome: the high Renaissance ; The problem of mannerism ; A developing Renaissance ; The Renaissance outside Italy: Eastern and Central Europe ;".
- catalog title "Western architecture : from ancient Greece to the present / Ian Sutton.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".