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008 150904s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng d
020 $a9781770855991$qhardcover
020 $a1770855998$qhardcover
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn920542390
035 $a(OCoLC)920542390
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040 $aERASA$beng$erda$cERASA$dNhCcYBP
050 4 $aNA200$b.C78 2015
082 04 $a720.9$223
100 1 $aCruickshank, Dan,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA history of architecture in 100 buildings /$cDan Cruickshank.
246 3 $aHistory of architecture in one hundred buildings
264 1 $aBuffalo, New York :$bFirefly Books$c[2015]
300 $a352 pages ;$bcolor illustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aArchitecture is an all-embracing adventure without end. It is a story that can never be completed - not as long as mankind continues to build, to invent, to discover; it is the story told in this book. The history of architecture is also a history of many other things - of politics, economy, religion, of science, ecology and of art and culture generally - and so is essentially a history of the world. For architecture - in its forms and functions - is a very direct mirror of mankind's desires, concerns and aspirations. Journeying across the world, from Syria to Shrewsbury, Sudan to Southern Spain, Dan Cruickshank explores man's most impressive creations. Not only the bastions of defence and aggression; homes for the gods and the dead; temples of commerce and the arts; palaces to express taste, power and wealth; and shrines of science, of learning, knowledge and politics - but also of mammon and of physical and spiritual oppression and incarceration. Can an ignoble cause create great architecture, can a prison be a thing of beauty as well as of power? These are perennial philosophical questions this book seeks to answer. Ingeniously structured by theme, this book surveys civilisation through the pioneers, visionaries, follies, ancients, rhetoric, scale, survivals and revivals of its greatest constructions. Together, the stories in this beautifully illustrated book offer a stupendous global cultural history - a history that is full of mystery and ripe for rediscovery.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xHistory.
650 0 $aBuildings.
650 0 $aHistoric buildings$vPictorial works.
852 00 $bavelcn$hNA200$i.C78 2015g