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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... lonic temples , made famous by a treatise written by its builders Chersiphron and Metagenes ( a work known only from a reference to it by Vitruvius ) , and by its association with King Croesus ( of ' rich as Croesus ' fame ) of Lydia ...
... lonic temples , made famous by a treatise written by its builders Chersiphron and Metagenes ( a work known only from a reference to it by Vitruvius ) , and by its association with King Croesus ( of ' rich as Croesus ' fame ) of Lydia ...
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... lonic ; but most useful in analysing its meaning is its position at the end of the extended evolution of Sicilian temples . In the spirit of competition with the Sicilian city of Selinus , which had recently begun constructing a ...
... lonic ; but most useful in analysing its meaning is its position at the end of the extended evolution of Sicilian temples . In the spirit of competition with the Sicilian city of Selinus , which had recently begun constructing a ...
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... lonic spirit . First , the eight columns across the façade reflected lonic tradition ( as compared to the typical Doric six ) . Similarly , the second row of columns within the peristyle at each end gave the impression of an lonic ...
... lonic spirit . First , the eight columns across the façade reflected lonic tradition ( as compared to the typical Doric six ) . Similarly , the second row of columns within the peristyle at each end gave the impression of an lonic ...
Contents
THE CLASSICAL WORLD | 14 |
EARLY CHRISTIAN ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC | 46 |
RENAISSANCE AND PALLADIANISM | 78 |
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