The Story of Architecture: 0000 - Softcover

Nuttgens, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714836168 ISBN 13: 9780714836164

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1997

Synopsis

An illustrated history of world architecture, an ideal background reader for anyone wanting to understand the world's architectural heritage, from the earliest cities of the ancient Middle East to contemporary developments.

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Review:

"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

Synopsis:

This work is a general introduction to architecture told through a narrative sequence of 21 chapters, each charting a stage in the devlopment of architecture. These chapters divide the text into natural study units covering the entire world and the whole of human architectural history. Without using technical language, Patrick Nuttgens draws on his own architectural experience to enable the reader to enter the mind of the architects - trying always to answer the simple question such as: "Why is it like that ?"

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0714836168
• ISBN 13: 9780714836164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352