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Buildings across Time

by: Moffett, Marian

Buildings across Time

by: Moffett, Marian

ISBN 13:
9780767405119
ISBN 10:
0767405110
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/21/2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This heavily illustrated survey has been expanded in its second edition to provide students of both art history and of architecture with a worldwide introduction to the history of architecture.

Author Biography

Marian Moffett is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Tennessee.

A Word about Drawings and Images

The Beginnings of Architecture

Prehistoric Settlements andMegalith Constructions

The Early Dynastic Period and OldKingdom (First through Eight Dynasties, CA. 2920-2134 BCE)

The Middle Kingdom (Elevenththrough Thirteenth Dynasties, CA. 2040-1640 BCE)

The New Kingdom (Eighteenththrough Twentieth Dynasties, CA. 1550-1070 BCE)

The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia

The Spread of Buddhist Influence

Traditional Architecture of China and Japan

Chinese Architectural Principles

Japanese Cities, Castles, andHouses

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Martyria, Baptistries, andMausolea

Byzantine Basilicas and DomedBasilicas

Centrally Planned ByzantineChurches

Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture

Anglo-Saxon and VikingArchitecture

Romanesque Architecture of theHoly Roman Empire

Churches of the Pilgrimage Roads

Romanesque Architecture ofAquitaine and Provence

Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Tribes of the Great Plains and theGreat Lakes

Tribes of the Mississippi RiverBasin

Tribes of the Northwest andNorthern California

The Olmecs of the Eastern MexicanCoast

Teotihuacan in the Valley ofMexico

The Zapotecs and Mixtecs at MonteAlban in Oaxaca

Tikal and Oter Maya Sites inGuatemala and the Yucatan

The Toltecs in the Valley ofMexico

Nineteenth Century Developments

Progress in Iron and SteelFabrication

Architectural Applications of Ironand Steel Construction

Skeletal Construction in Concreteand Wood

Henry Hobson Richardson and LouisSullivan in America

The Twentieth Century and Modernism

The Idea of a Modern Architecture

Peter Behrens and the DeutscherWerkbund

Dutch and German Expressionism

Architects and Engineers whoExploited the Potential of Concrete

Tony Garnier and the IndustrialCity

Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus

The Weissenhof Siedlung and theInternational Style

Later Work of Mies Van der Rohe

Later Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century

Robert Venturi’s RadicalCounter-Proposal to Modernism

Intellectual Inspirations forPost-Modernism

The Exploitation of Technology byJames Stirling and Others

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