Architectural styles : a visual guide
Fletcher, Margaret, 1969-2020
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Total copies: 1
Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts -- from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting -- along with a detailed glossary and index.
Main title:
Architectural styles : a visual guide / Margaret Fletcher ; illustrations by Robbie Polley.
Author:
Fletcher, Margaret, 1969-, authorPolley, Robbie, illustrator
Imprint:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]©2020.
Collation:
287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Ancient and Classical -- Medieval and Renaissance -- Baroque to Art Nouveau -- Modern and Contemporary -- Elements.
ISBN:
9780691208077 (hardcover)9780691213781 (ebook)
Dewey class:
720
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
664229