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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... hall , the solar , or living room , a chapel and a kitchen . More than a century after the first stage of building , the two parts were joined to form a more or less regular quadrangle . This introduced to the building the sense of ...
... hall , the solar , or living room , a chapel and a kitchen . More than a century after the first stage of building , the two parts were joined to form a more or less regular quadrangle . This introduced to the building the sense of ...
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... hall for receptions , where a large ceiling fresco by Martino Altomonte glorifies Prince Eugene as hero , personality and victor . The rest of the single - storey building comprises rooms for his collections of exotic plants and animals ...
... hall for receptions , where a large ceiling fresco by Martino Altomonte glorifies Prince Eugene as hero , personality and victor . The rest of the single - storey building comprises rooms for his collections of exotic plants and animals ...
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... Hall BERLIN , GERMANY 1956-63 H The departure from geometrical conventions in these interiors , particularly the use of acute and obtuse angles in the plan , was unprecedented and later proved influential , particularly on 1990s ...
... Hall BERLIN , GERMANY 1956-63 H The departure from geometrical conventions in these interiors , particularly the use of acute and obtuse angles in the plan , was unprecedented and later proved influential , particularly on 1990s ...
Contents
THE CLASSICAL WORLD | 14 |
EARLY CHRISTIAN ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC | 46 |
RENAISSANCE AND PALLADIANISM | 78 |
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