1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 8
... monumental undertak- ings and decorative notions . As for ancient Rome , the multiformity of its building programmes , the monumental scale of so many of its public buildings , the technical expertise in the use of the arch and the ...
... monumental undertak- ings and decorative notions . As for ancient Rome , the multiformity of its building programmes , the monumental scale of so many of its public buildings , the technical expertise in the use of the arch and the ...
Page 78
... monumental appearance full of bal- ance and harmony among the parts and the whole . These aspirations , pursued through the use of simple , musical relationships not unlike the thinking in the con- temporary culture of the church's ...
... monumental appearance full of bal- ance and harmony among the parts and the whole . These aspirations , pursued through the use of simple , musical relationships not unlike the thinking in the con- temporary culture of the church's ...
Page 268
... monumental structures present themselves as ref- erences to past historical epochs and thus constitute a sort of museum that unites the obsession with the past with an awareness of the originality of the current reality . Ludwig Förster ...
... monumental structures present themselves as ref- erences to past historical epochs and thus constitute a sort of museum that unites the obsession with the past with an awareness of the originality of the current reality . Ludwig Förster ...
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