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Architecture : From Prehistory to Post Modernity by Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman (2019, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100131830651

ISBN-139780131830653

eBay Product ID (ePID)51265319

Product Key Features

Number of Pages624 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameArchitecture : from Prehistory to Post Modernity

SubjectConstruction / General, History / General

Publication Year2019

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

AuthorMarvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Architecture

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight97 Oz

Item Length11.5 in

Item Width9.4 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2001-022388

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal720.9

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of ContentI. THE ANCIENT WORLD. 1. Architecture Before Greece. 2. Greece. 3. Rome. II. THE MIDDLE AGES. 4. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. 5. Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture. 6. Islam and West. 7. Gothic Architecture. III. THE RENAISSANCE AND THE BAROQUE. 8. The Renaissance. 9. The Baroque. IV. THE MODERN WORLD. 10. The Eighteenth Century. 11. The Nineteenth Century. 12. Modern Architecture. 13. Second Modernism (through Post-Modernism). 14. Modernisms: Renewal and Hyper-Diversity in Recent Decades.

SynopsisMoving back and forth between the long view of historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this lavishly-illustrated survey explains specific qualities of periods in depth and the complex illuminating differences between them in social, intellectual, and aesthetic terms., For History of Architecture courses in departments of Art, Design, Art History and Architecture. Moving back and forth between the long view of historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this insightful, lively and original modern survey reinvigorates conventional period and thematic structures of architectural history and revitalizes the canon of great buildings. Designed to help students understand and appreciate great architecture and its history, the lavishly illustrated text explains specific qualities of periods in depth and the complex illuminating differences between them in social, intellectual, and aesthetic terms. Exceptionally detailed coverage of the modern age (18th century to the present).