The Story of Architecture: 0000 - Hardcover

Nuttgens, Patrick

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9780714822839: The Story of Architecture: 0000

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714822833 ISBN 13: 9780714822839

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1983

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Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story of Architecture is the account of how men and women of ingenuity and imagination have taken the most elementary of human needs and transformed them into some of the greatest manifestations of the human civilisation.

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"The Story of Architecture brings understanding and insight for those who have encountered the world's architectural heritage in their travels or through the media, and seek to explore it further."―Perspective

"Scholars and students of architecture should be grateful that such a compendium of knowledge is contained in one volume and one, too, which gives Asia and the Americas an acknowledged place in history."―James Macaulay, former Senior Lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow

About the Author:

Patrick Nuttgens (1930-2004), Professor of Architecture at the University of York and then Director of Leeds Polytechnic, was also a writer and broadcaster on architectural and educational subjects.

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