Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture |
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Architecture in the Ancient Near East | 47 |
Architecture in India and Pakistan | 86 |
Architecture in Sri Lanka | 109 |
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A. F. Kersting Abbey aisles ancient apse arcades arches architect architecture Baroque barrel vaults Basilica brick building built buttresses Byzantine capital carved castles Cathedral central centre century B.C. chamber chapels choir church circular clear-storey cloisters colonnades columns construction Corinthian court decoration dome doorway Doric Dynasty early east eastern Egypt Empire entablature entrance examples exterior façade flanked Florence France frieze galleries Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hall influence interior Ionic Ionic Order Islamic Italy kings later London marble masonry mastaba Mediaeval monuments mosaics Moslem mosque mouldings MTRS narthex nave Norman octagonal ornament palace Palazzo Paris period peristyle piers pilasters porch portico pyramid rectangular Renaissance RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE restored ribs Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Romanesque Architecture Rome roof sanctuary sculptured SECTION side square stone storeys structure stupa style temple Thermae timber tomb towers transepts triforium upper vaults Venice walls western