Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

by: Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

by: Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle

ISBN 13:
9780810906075
ISBN 10:
0810906074
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Newer Edition

Rent

Sorry, this item is currently unavailable.

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

This Acclaimed History Of architecture, which has set the standard in the field, is now fully updated & extensively illustrated, & features a new section on exciting & diverse contemporary works from 1980 to 2000.

Color Portfolio

(40)

Introduction Trachtenberg

(7)

PART ONE The Ancient World

Architecture Before Greece Trachtenberg and Hyman

(34)

Prehistory

(5)

Egypt

(14)

Ancient Near East

(8)

Crete and Mycenae

(6)

Greece Trachtenberg

(26)

The Doric Order

(7)

The Ionic Order

(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

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

9780810906075

0810906074

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmoderism (Trade Version)

9780810906075

0810906074

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Related Products