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Synopsis
Taking history rather than aesthetics as a starting point, Bill Risebero to leads us through the development of the western world, looking at architecture as an expression of social and economic conditions and discussing not only what was built but how, why and by whom.
This revised edition contains new material on Ancient Greece an Egypt and the more recent years of Postmodernism and urbanism, the New Right ideology of the Eighties and the rising environmental concerns of the Nineties.
The author's many hundreds of lively and informative drawings and diagrams provide an attractive, informal and approachable illustration of The Story of Western Architecture.
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About the Author
Bill Risebero is an architect and town planner in London. He teaches at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and in the London Program of Syracuse University.
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"One of the most remarkable books on the subject that I have ever come across ... a tremendous achievement of Pevsnerian dimensions."
- Sherban Cantacuzino, former Executive Editor, The Architectural Review
"An excellent, very readable survey full of unconventional judgments, imbued with a town planner's humanist values."
- Publishers Weekly
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