A History of Western Architecture: Second Edition - Softcover

Watkin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856690822 ISBN 13: 9781856690829

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

Surveying Western architecture from its classical origins, the author aims to show architectural history as a living continuity rather than a museum of neatly labelled styles. The validity of the classical language of architecture as the connecting thread of the Western tradition is emphasized. This edition of the study includes a section entititled "Architecture for the Millennium" which discusses both hi-tech architecture, such as that by Foster and also Rogers with hybrid, postmodernist expressions such as the National Theatre in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill. The need for architectural scholarship to respond to a continuing historical legacy is discussed in the preface.

About this title

Review:

...an outstanding narrative history of architecture, the best currently available... -- Architectural Review

About the Author:

David Watkin is Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. He has written many books, among them: Morality and Architecture Revisited and Sir John Soane (1996), and is a leading authority on Classicism and its successive renewals in architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1856690822
• ISBN 13: 9781856690829
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 608