Full title: A world history of architecture / Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett [and] Lawrence Wodehouse.

Author/creator: Moffett, Marian, Wodehouse, Lawrence, Fazio, Michael W.

Date: 2013..

Call Numbers: NQ720.9/63

Record Identifier: 74Vv507Ebj6y

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xvi, 608 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm., Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Beginnings Of Architecture -- Prehistoric Settlements and Megalith Constructions -- Eastern Europe -- Western Europe -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Sumerians, Akkadians, and Neo-Sumerians -- Essay: The Sumerian View of the World -- Babylonians, Hittites, and Assyrians -- The Persians -- Ancient Egypt -- The Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom -- Essay: "Hydraulic" Civilizations -- The First Pyramids -- Fourth-Dynasty Pyramids at Giza -- The Middle Kingdom -- The New Kingdom -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 2 The Greek World -- The Aegean Cultures -- The Minoans -- The Mycenaeans -- Greece: The Archaic Period -- Greece: The Classical Period -- The Parthenon, Athens -- Essay: Celebrating Athena's Birthday -- Other Buildings on the Acropolis -- Greece: The Hellenistic Period -- Greek City Planning -- The Athenian Agora -- Hellenistic Cities -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas --, Contents note continued: ch. 3 The Architecture Of Ancient India And Southeast Asia -- Religions of India -- Early Buddhist Shrines -- Essay: Bamiyan and the Colossal Buddha -- Hindu Temples -- Early Buildings -- Later Temples -- Angkor Wat -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 4 The Traditional Architecture Of China And Japan -- Chinese Architectural Principles -- Principles of City Planning -- Houses and Gardens -- Essay: Elder Brother Rock -- Japanese Temple Architecture -- Buddhist Temples -- Shinto Shrines -- Japanese Houses and Castles -- Zen Buddhist Architecture and Its Derivatives -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 5 The Roman World -- Etruscan Imprints -- The Romans -- Building Techniques and Materials -- City Planning -- Essay: The Engineering Might of the Romans -- Temples -- Public Buildings -- Basilicas -- Public Baths -- Theaters and Amphitheaters -- Residences -- Urban Housing -- Rural Villas and Urban Palaces --, Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 6 Early Christian And Byzantine Architecture -- Early Christian Basilicas -- Martyria, Baptisteries, and Mausolea -- Essay: Eusebius and Constantine -- Byzantine Basilicas and Domed Basilicas -- Centrally Planned Byzantine Churches -- Churches in Russia -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 7 Islamic Architecture -- Early Shrines -- Conception of the Mosque -- Regional Variations in Mosque Design -- Columned Hall or Hypostyle Mosques -- Iwan Mosques -- Multi-Domed Mosques -- Tombs -- Houses and Urban Patterns -- The Palace and the Garden -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 8 Early Medieval And Romanesque Architecture -- Carolingian Architecture -- The Revival of Masonry Construction -- Monasteries -- Viking Architecture -- Early Romanesque Architecture -- Romanesque Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire -- Pilgrimage Road Churches -- The Order of Cluny --, Contents note continued: Essay: The Mystic Mill from Vezelay -- Aquitaine and Provence -- Cistercian Monasteries -- Norman Architecture -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 9 Gothic Architecture -- Early Gothic -- The Abbey Church of St. Denis -- Early Gothic Cathedrals -- High Gothic -- Chartres and Bourges -- The Sainte-Chapelle -- English Gothic -- Early English -- Essay: A Wool Church -- Decorated and Perpendicular -- German, Czech, and Italian Gothic -- Hall Churches -- Italian Gothic Variations -- Medieval Construction -- Medieval Houses and Castles -- Housing -- Castles -- Medieval Cities -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 10 Indigenous Architecture In The Americas And Africa -- North America -- Tribes of the Great Plains and the Great Lakes -- Tribes of the Northeast -- Tribes of the Mississippi River Basin -- Essay: The Birthplace of the Choctaws -- Arctic and Subarctic Tribes -- Tribes of the Northwest and Northern California --, Contents note continued: Tribes of the Southwest -- Mexico and Central America -- The Olmecs of the Eastern Mexican Coast -- Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico -- The Zapotecs and Mixtecs at Monte Alban, Oaxaca -- The Maya -- Tikal -- Copan and Palenque -- Uxmal and Chichen-Itza -- The Toltecs in the Valley of Mexico -- The Aztecs at Tenochtitlan -- South America: The Andean World -- Early cities on the North Coast of Peru -- Early Development in the Northern Peruvian Andes -- The Nazca on the Peruvian South Coast -- An Empire in the Western Bolivian Highlands -- The Chimor Kingdom -- The Inca -- Africa -- Portable Fabric Structures -- Permanent Dwellings -- Urbanization and Fortification -- Palaces -- Churches and Mosques -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 11 Renaissance Architecture -- Filippo Brunelleschi -- Florence Cathedral -- Other Florentine Buildings -- Michelozzo Bartolomeo and the Palazzo Medici -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Writings --, Contents note continued: The Palazzo Rucellai, Florence -- Churches in Rimini, Florence, and Mantua -- The Ideal City -- Essay: Pius's Resolutions -- The Spread of the Renaissance -- Urbino -- Milan -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Donato Bramante -- The Tempietto, Rome -- St. Peter's, Rome -- The Belvedere Court and the House of Raphael, Rome -- The Late Renaissance and Mannerism -- The Villa Madama, Rome -- The Uffizi, Florence -- The Palazzo del Te, Mantua -- Michelangelo -- S. Lorenzo, Florence -- The Campidoglio, Rome -- The Palazzo Farnese, Rome -- St. Peter's, Rome -- Porta Pia, Rome -- Sforza Chapel, Rome -- Andrea Palladio -- Buildings in Vicenza -- Villa Designs in the Veneto -- Churches in Venice -- The Teatro Olimpico -- Palladio's Venice -- Garden Design -- The Renaissance in France -- Chateaux in the Loire Valley -- Sebastiano Serlio and Philibert de l'Orme -- The Louvre and the Place Royale -- The Renaissance in England -- Elizabethan Country Houses -- Inigo Jones --, Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 12 Baroque Architecture -- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Il Gesu, Rome -- Pope Sixtus V and the Replanning of Rome -- St. Peter's -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- The Completion of St. Peter's -- S. Andrea al Quirinale, Rome -- Francesco Borromini -- S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome -- S. Ivo della Sapienza -- Urban Open Spaces in Baroque Rome -- The Piazza Navona -- The Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps -- Essay: Piazza Navona---A Space for Spectacle -- The Spread of Baroque Architecture to Northern Italy -- Guarino Guarini -- The Baroque in Central Europe -- Die Wies, Bavaria -- The Baroque in France -- The Louvre, Paris -- Francois Mansart -- The Chateau of Versailles -- Jules-Hardouin Mansart -- Christopher Wren and the Baroque in England -- The City Churches -- St. Paul's -- Housing in the Manner of Wren -- Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John Vanbrugh, and James Gibbs --, Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 13 Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, And The Rococo -- The Rococo -- The English Neo-Palladians -- Essay: The Enlightenment and the Abbe Laugier's Primitive Hut -- The Return to Antiquity -- The Style Created by Robert Adam -- William Chambers, an English Neo-Classicist Trained in France -- Architectural Education and Architectural Theory in France -- The Inventive Neo-Classicism of Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux -- Other Neo-Classical Architects in France -- The Distinctive Style of Sir John Soane in England -- The German Neo-Classicism of Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and Neo-Classicism in the United States -- Essay: Piranesi's View of Rome -- Romanticism and the Picturesque -- The Romantic Landscape -- Picturesque Buildings -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 14 Eclecticism, Industrialization, And Newness --, Contents note continued: The Challenge of the Industrial Revolution -- Developments in Steel -- Iron and Glass Greenhouse Designs -- Joseph Paxton and the Crystal Palace -- Essay: The Coming of the Railroad -- Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Rational Design -- Henri Labrouste and His Library Designs -- Gustave Eiffel and His Tower -- Skeletal Construction in Concrete and Wood -- A.W.N. Pugin, the Gothic Revival, and Opposition to Industrialization -- John Ruskin and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- William Morris -- Richard Norman Shaw, C.F.A. Voysey, and Herman Muthesius -- The Art Nouveau -- Victor Horta and Hector Guimard -- Antonio Gaudi -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- The Viennese Secession -- The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Richard Morris Hunt, and Frank Furness -- Henry Hobson Richardson and the Search for an American Style -- McKim, Mead, and White -- The First Skyscrapers -- Louis Sullivan and the Tall Building "Artistically Considered" -- The World's Columbian Exposition --, Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 15 The Twentieth Century And Modernism -- The Idea of a Modern Architecture -- The War of Words -- Adolf Loos -- Influence of Loos's Lectures and Publications -- The Raumplan and Loos's Buildings -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Developing the Prairie House -- Wright's Early Public Buildings -- The Flight from America -- H.P. Berlage and Wendingen -- German Expressionism -- The Deutscher Werkbund and Peter Behrens -- Exploiting the Potential of Concrete -- Le Corbusier -- The Dom-ino and Citrohan Houses -- The Villa Stein and the Villa Savoye -- Le Corbusier's "Five Points" -- Essay: Futurism and Constructivism -- Walter Gropius -- The Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau -- De Stijl -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- The Barcelona Pavilion and the Tugendhat House -- Mies, the Weissenhof Siedlung, and the International Style -- The Continuation of Traditional Design -- Art Deco or Style Moderne -- The Ongoing Modernist Program --, Contents note continued: Later Work of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Broadacre City -- Fallingwater -- The Guggenheim Museum and Taliesin West -- Wrightian Connections -- Later Work of Le Corbusier -- Ronchamp and Ste. Marie-de-la-Tourette -- Chandigarh -- Diaspora and the Later Work of Mies Van der Rohe -- Planning and Building at IIT -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 16 Modernisms In The Mid- And Late Twentieth Century And Beyond -- Modern Regionalism -- Alvar Aalto -- Luis Barragan -- Alvaro Siza -- Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio -- A Regional Modernism in Japan -- Kenzo Tange -- Fumihiko Maki -- Arata Isozaki -- Tadao Ando -- Counterproposals to Modernism -- Robert Venturi -- Philip Johnson -- Charles Moore -- Michael Graves -- Modem Classicism and Ongoing Traditionalism -- Aldo Rossi -- Quinlan Terry -- Allan Greenberg -- Robert A.M. Stern -- Leon Krier -- Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk -- Deconstruction -- Modem Form-Makers -- Louis I. Kahn --, Contents note continued: Jørn Utzon -- Ove Arup -- The Boston City Hall -- Justus Dahinden -- Frank Gehry -- Richard Meier -- Antoine Predock -- Rafael Moneo -- Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture -- Zaha Hadid -- Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Modern Materials and Technologies -- Eero Saarinen and His Office -- Carlo Scarpa -- James Stirling -- Norman Foster -- Renzo Piano -- Eric Owen Moss -- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam -- Daniel Libeskind -- Steven Holl -- Jean Nouvel -- Santiago Calatrava -- Herzog and de Meuron -- Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio -- Sustainable Design -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Glenn Murcutt -- Thom Mayne and Morphosis -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas.

Publishers: London : Laurence King, 2013.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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