An edition of The story of architecture
(1983)
The story of architecture
by Patrick Nuttgens
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Table of Contents
1 Orgins
2 Barbaric Splendour: the first civilization, 4000 BC to fourth century AD
3 The Geometry of Immortality: Ancient Egypt, 3200 BC to first century AD
4 The Holy Mountain and the Sacred Womb: Southern Asia, 2500 BC to eighteenth century AD
5 Puzzles and Modules: China and Japan, third century BC to twentieth century AD
6 Ritual of Blood: Pre-Hispanic America, 1200 BC to sixteenth century AD
7 The Landscape of the Gods, Ancient Greece, fifth century BC to the first century AD
8 The Authority of Competence: Rome, fourth century BC to fifth century AD
9 The Worshipping Community: early Christian and Byzantine, fourth to fifteenth century
10 The Order and the Sanctuary: Romanesque, ninth to twelfth century
11 The Flowering of the Desert: Islam, seventh to twentieth century
12 The Metaphysics of Light: Gothic, twelfth to sixteenth century
13 The Scale of Human Perfection: Renaissance Italy, fifteenth to sixteenth century
14 Urbanity crosses the Alps: spread of the Renaissance, fifteenth to seventeenth century
15 Drama: Baroque and Rococo, seventeenth to eighteenth century
16 The Prophets of Elegance: Romantic Classicism, eighteenth to nineteenth century
17 How the Pioneers became self-reliant: Americas and beyond, seventeenth to eighteenth century
18 The Rise of the Iron Masters: the search for a style, nineteenth to 1914
19 Expectancy: the turn of the century, c.1870 to 1920
20 Function and Anonymity: the International Style, c.1918 to 1970
Many Directions
the pluralistic world of persionalism and technology, the present day.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.
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