Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms - Softcover

Curl, James Stevens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393731197 ISBN 13: 9780393731194

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2003

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Book by Curl James Stevens

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One of the definitive works on architectural thought and practice.--Nicole V. Gagne

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Professor James Stevens Curl discusses in clear, straightforward language the origins of classical architecture in Greek and Roman antiquity and outlines its continuous development, through its various manifestations during the Renaissance, its transformations in Baroque and Rococo phases, its reemergence in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Neoclassicism, and its survival into the modern era. The text and illustrations celebrate the richness of the classical architectural vocabulary, grammar, and language, and demonstrate the enormous range of themes and motifs found in the subject.All those who wish to look at buildings old and new with an informed eye will find in this book a rich fund of material, and the basis for an understanding of a fecund source of architectural design that has been at the heart of western culture for over two and a half millennia.

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393731197
• ISBN 13: 9780393731194
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232