A history of architecture on the disparative method

with apologies to Sir Banister Fletcher (all eighteen editions)

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A history of architecture on the disparative method

with apologies to Sir Banister Fletcher (all eighteen editions)

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80

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First Sentence

"This guide to the technique of reading between the lines of nonsensical texts is dedicated to lively young minds oppressed by dead scholarship."

Table of Contents

Preface
Page 6
Survival Through Desing
Page 8
Prehistoric Architecture
Page 12
The Egyptians
Page 17
Memphite Period or Old Kingdom
Page 18
Rock-Cut Tombs
Page 19
The Architect
Page 20
Later Forms
Page 21
The Peristyle
Page 21
The Obelisk
Page 23
Dwellings
Page 23
The Romans
Page 24
The House
Page 25
The Temple
Page 25
Arched Construction
Page 25
The Architect
Page 26
Columnar Systems
Page 26
The Vault
Page 26
Early Christian Architecture
Page 28
Renaissance
Page 34
Modern Architecture
Page 42
The Nodule on the Module
Page 44
The Art of War
Page 50
Richard the Lionhearted Architect as a Knight of the Garter
Page 56
Some Modest Proposals for the Redesign of Man
Page 64
Contaminated Man
Page 68
Modular Man
Page 70
Titillating Evolution
Page 71
Plastic, or Silly Putty, Man
Page 73
Ugliness Makes America Great
Page 74

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Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720/.9
Library of Congress
NA2599 .W54, NA2599

The Physical Object

Pagination
80 p.
Number of pages
80
Dimensions
23.5 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5050428M
ISBN 10
0442295448
LCCN
74011594
OCLC/WorldCat
980219
Goodreads
1466299

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