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How did the pyramid evolve during its journey from Luxor to the Louvre? Why can the Parthenon be compared to a Greek fighting ship? What connects Hadrian's Villa to the Getty Center Los Angeles? In this inspiring and innovative overview Jonathan Glancey brings a fresh approach and unique personal insights into the continuing story of 5 000 years of architecture. From the ziggurat of Ur to the Buddhist temples of Southeast Asia via Romanesque arcades Gothic steeples Baroque palaces and Modernist appartment blocks this accessible and lively narrative reveals the geographical historical and cultural influences that permeated these structures.
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Jonathan Glancey lives in London and is Architecture and Design Editor of The Guardian, author of several architecture books and a regular TV and radio broadcaster who has written and presented programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. He has been assistant editor of the Architectural Review, editor of The Architect, and has contributed to a number of architectural and design magazines in Europe and the US.
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Photographs supported by architectural plans and diagrams combine with text in this book to tell the story of the history of architecture.
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- PublisherDorling Kindersley
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0751308102
- ISBN 13 9780751308105
- BindingHardcover
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