Architecture: The Critics' Choice : 150 Masterpieces of Western Architecture Selected and Defined by the ExpertsDan Cruickshank Divided into ten chapters, each dedicated to an architectural period and style, this lively, compact history provides a guided tour of the world's greatest buildings. |
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... building was completed , the popular French periodical L'Illustration wondered whether it signalled a ' revolution in the art of building ? ' . Henri Sauvage certainly envisaged entire neighbourhoods of these terraced structures , which ...
... building was completed , the popular French periodical L'Illustration wondered whether it signalled a ' revolution in the art of building ? ' . Henri Sauvage certainly envisaged entire neighbourhoods of these terraced structures , which ...
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... building industry . This trend is bound to continue . As architecture becomes more complex and all - embracing - including issues of engineering , cost control , planning , communications technology , sustainability and the design of ...
... building industry . This trend is bound to continue . As architecture becomes more complex and all - embracing - including issues of engineering , cost control , planning , communications technology , sustainability and the design of ...
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... building A building equipped with integrated computer systems to regulate functions such as heating , lighting and security and to protect the building . lonic order See Classical Greek Architecture and the Orders , above . keep Also ...
... building A building equipped with integrated computer systems to regulate functions such as heating , lighting and security and to protect the building . lonic order See Classical Greek Architecture and the Orders , above . keep Also ...
Contents
THE CLASSICAL WORLD | 14 |
EARLY CHRISTIAN ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC | 46 |
RENAISSANCE AND PALLADIANISM | 78 |
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