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An edition of The Classical Language of Architecture (1963)

The Classical Language of Architecture

18th printing

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"Scripts of six talks, written for the B.B.C. and delivered in May-July 1963."

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The MIT Press, M.I.T. Press
Language
English
Pages
56

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Subjects
Architecture, Details, Terminology, Orders, Klassizismus, Kunst, Bouwkunst, Classicisme, Architecture, history, Roman Architecture, Renaissance Architecture, History, Greek Architecture, Architecture, details, Architecture, greek, Terminologie, Détails, Arquitetura (Historia)
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Vitruvius, Michaelangelo, Bramante

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1995, The MIT Press, M.I.T. Press
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1989, The M.I.T. Press
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Edition Notes

Drawings on endpapers.

Published in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Copyright Date
1963

Classifications

Library of Congress
NA31 .S86 1963, NA31 .S86 1966

Contributors

Copyright
John Summerson and the British Broadcasting Corporation

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
56p., [24]p. of plates :
Number of pages
56

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Open Library
OL15559386M
Internet Archive
classicallanguag0000summ
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0262690128
ISBN 13
9780262690126
LCCN
66024572
OCLC/WorldCat
12715771, 607728
Library Thing
97966
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1513898

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Sir John Summerson's short (roughly 80 page) classic is an informal yet trenchant explanation of the classical grammar that has shaped Western architecture from antiquity through the current age. Various architectural elements and styles are explained in a delightful prose that engages and informs.

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