Architecture. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Glancey.
• Other Names: Glancey, Jonathan
• Contents: Introducing architecture. What is architecture? -- The building blocks of architecture -- From village to city. Ancient Middle East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Americas. Central & North America -- South America -- The classical world. Ancient Greece -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian & Byzantine architecture -- India & Southeast Asia. Indian architecture -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia. China -- Japan & Korea -- The Islamic world. The first mosques -- Persia & Mughal India -- Medieval Europe. Romanesque -- Gothic -- The Renaissance. Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance beyond Italy -- Baroque & Rococo. Baroque -- Rococo -- Classical revival. Neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- The industrial world. The machine age -- Gothic revival -- Nostalgia & whimsy -- The modern world. Modernism -- Traditionalism -- The contemporary world.
• Publisher Details: London New York : DK
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (512 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 720.9; Encyclopaedias & Reference Works; Architecture -- History; Arquitectura -- Historia; Diseño arquitectónico; Diseño arquitectónico -- Historia; ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism; ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General; ARCHITECTURE -- Regional; Architecture; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781405338011; 1405338016; 9780756644826; 0756644828; 1282066374; 9781282066373
• Related ISBNs: 0756617324; 9780756617325; 9781405310291; 1405310294
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.