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

Curl, James Stevens

ISBN 10: 0393731197 / ISBN 13: 9780393731194

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2003

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2003 first American paperback edition. In excellent clean condition appears unused as spine is uncreased, covers shiny and unscuffed. Seller Inventory # 010233

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Title: Classical Architecture: An Introduction to ...

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of classical architecture in itself.

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-,...

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