Architecture: From PreHistory to Post-Modernism - Hardcover

TRACHTENBERG,Marvin & HYMAN,Isabelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810910772 ISBN 13: 9780810910775

Publisher: See notes, 1986

Synopsis

This chronological survey is organized into four parts: Part One: The Ancient World -- Architecture Before Greece, Greece, and Rome; Part Two: The Middle Ages -- Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture, Islam and the West, and Gothic Architecture; Part Three: The Renaissance and the Baroque; Part Four: The Modern World -- The Eighteenth Century, The Nineteenth Century, Modern Architecture, and Second Modernism (Post-Modernism). With more than 1,000 illustrations, including 74 plates in full color.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In his design for the Brooklyn Bridge, John Roebling fused Egyptian and Gothic detail into his personal version of the Roman triumphal arch. Michelangelo conceived his muscular, expressive architecture as if it were sculpture. These engaging insights are typical of the fresh approach taken by two New York University professors in this heavily illustrated, 600-page survey of Western architecture. The authors focus on monumental structures within each epoch, and give stylistic detail priority over social or political context. Even so, they often make broad connections between buildings and people. For example, a comparison of Greek freestanding temples and Rome's imposing facades suggests a difference between the freedom-loving Athenians and a Roman society dominated by state power and state religion. From Etruscan ruins to Robert Venturi's juxtaposing of low vernacular with high art, this detailed, rewarding study measures innovation against continuity.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: See notes
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0810910772
• ISBN 13: 9780810910775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 606