Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture

Cruickshank, Dan (Ed)

ISBN 10: 0750622679 / ISBN 13: 9780750622677

Published by Architectural Press, London, 1996

About this Item

Twentieth Edition. This book is covered in neat, clear, removable plastic protecting the dust jacket. The DJ shows some light shelf wear but is clean and uncreased. The hardcover is in very good condition. A previous owner has written their name in blue pen on the top of the first title page. The binding is sound. The pages are clean, clear and crisp. Contains a bound-in ribbon bookmark. This book is large and heavy and may require additional postage costs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
• Publisher: Architectural Press, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750622679
• ISBN 13: 9780750622677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • RARE
  • ARCHITECTURE

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Synopsis

The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new. * There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both with new specially commissioned drawings * The architecture of the Americas before 1900 has been enlarged to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean * The book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from outside Europe * The bibliography has been expanded into a separate section and is a key source of information on every period of world architecture * The coverage of the 20th century architecture of North America has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller coverage of contemporary works * 20th century architecture of Western Europe has been radically recast * For the first time the architecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and assessed in an historical perspective * Coverage has been extended to include buildings completed during the last ten years * The coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and re-organised to form a self contained section This unique reference book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical settings to describe the main patterns of architectural development, from Prehistoric to the International Style. Again in the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that 'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and aspirations of the people, and without a knowledge of this art the history of any period lacks that human interest with which it should be invested.'

About the Author

Dan Cruickshank, Sir Banister Fletcher, Andrew Siant, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Blundell Jones