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020			_a1845110897
082			_a720.1 _bBUS
100			_aBussagli, Marco _940343
245			_aUnderstanding architecture _hBook
260			_aLondon & New York _bI. B. Tauris _c2005
300			_a383p.
500			_aCONTENTS : PART 1 What is Architecture? PEOPLE AND SPACE 10 Natural Environment and Human Environment 12 From Territory to City 16 A Brief History of Urban Planning 18 Building for Beauty 20 Music and Architecture 22 Architecture and the Theory of Proportions 26 Architecture and Anthropomorphism 30 Architecture and Industrial Design 32 Architecture and Decoration 36 Architecture and Nature 38 The Garden BUILDINGS AND TYPOLOGIES 42 Habitations 46 Religious Buildings 50 Public Buildings 52 Military Construction 54 Towers, Skyscrapers, and Lighthouses 56 Collective Architecture 64 Manufacturing Facilities 66 Service Facilities 68 Transportation Infrastructures 72 Commercial Buildings 74 Tombs and Cemeteries TECHNIQUES, MATERIALS, AND STRUCTURES 78 Building with Wood 80 Building with Stone 82 Building with Brick 84 Reinforced Concrete and Prefabricated Buildings 85 Building with Iron, Steel, and Glass 86 Columns and Other Vertical Elements 88 Capitals 9O The Architrave and Other Horizontal Elements 92 The Arch 94 Vaults and Ceilings 96 The Dome 98 Facades 100 Doors, Portals, and Porticoes 102 Windows and Stained Glass 104 Plans and Planimetry STYLES 108 Antiquity 114 The Architectural Orders 118 Christian and Byzantine Architecture 120 Barbarian Architecture 122 Islamic Architecture 124 Arab-Norman, Moorish, and Mozarabic Architecture 126 Romanesque Architecture 130 Gothic Architecture 136 Chinese Architecture 138 Renaissance Architecture 146 From Mannerism to Baroque 1SO From Late Baroque to Rococo 152 Early Indian Architecture 1S4 Pre-Columbian Architecture 1S6 Neoclassical Architecture 160 Neo-Gothic, or Gothic Revival Architecture 162 Eclecticism 164 Modernism and Art Nouveau 166 Japanese Architecture 17O Modern Classicism 172 Avant-garde Architecture 178 The Modern Movement 182 The International Style 188 Contemporary Architecture PART 2 Civilizations, Architectural Achievements, Outstanding Figures 200Neolithic Populations and Ethnographic Cultures 2O2 TheEgyptians 204The Pyramids 206The Civilization of the Indus Valley 2O8In the Land Between Two Rivers 210 The Peoples of the Iranian Plateau 212 Persepolis 214 Crete and Mycenae 216 The Etruscans 218 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 220 Greece and Rome: Architecture Compared 222 The Acropolis of Athens 224 The Roman Forums 226 Aqueducts 228 The Great Sanctuaries 230 Theaters and Amphitheaters 232 The Pantheon 234 The Mausoleum of Santa Costanza 236 Costantinople 238 Hagia Sophia 240 Theodoric's Mausoleum 242 The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem 244 Rock-Cut Architecture 246 The Palatine Chapel at Aquisgrana 248 The Umayyad Castles 250 Angkor 252 Borobudur 253 Khajuraho 254 Hildesheim 255 Cluny and Citeaux 256 Fontenay 257 Durham 258 Modena 259 Pisa 260 Arles 261 Conques 262 St. Mark's Basilica 263 Monreale 264 Santiago de Compostela 266 Chartres 268 Benedetto Antelami 270 Villard de Honnecourt 272 The Duomo of Siena and the Duomo of Orvieto 274 Todi 275 Bruges 276 Canterbury 277 Lubeck 278 Arnolfo di Cambio and Giotto 280 The Parler Family 282 The Alhambra 284 Peking and the Forbidden City 286 Filippo Brunelleschi 288 Palazzo Ducale in Urbino 290 Leon Battista Albert! 292 Donate Bramante 294 Raphael 296 Michelangelo Buonarroti 298 St. Peter's Basilica 300 Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas 302 Andrea Palladio 3O4 Gianlorenzo Bernini 306 Francesco Borromini 308 The Royal Palace of Versailles 310 The Taj Mahal 312 Christopher Wren 314 Johann Balthasar Neumann 316 Thomas Jefferson 318 Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 320 Giacomo Quarenghi 322 Giuseppe Valadier 324 John Nash 326 Giuseppe Sacconi and the Vittoriano 328 Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 330 The Houses of Parliament 332 Gustave Eiffel 334 Charles Rennie Mackintosh 336 Antoni Gaudi 338 Antonio Sant'Elia 34O Louis Henry Sullivan 342 Frank Lloyd Wright 344 The Katsura Imperial Villa 346 Marcello Piacentini 348 Le Corbusier 350 Walter Gropius 352 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 354 Alvar Aalto 356 Brasilia 358 The Sydney Opera House 36O Kenzo Tange 362 Arata Isozaki 364 The Louvre and leoh Ming Pei 366 Robert Venturi 368 Frank Owen Gehry 370 Renzo Piano 372 Santiago Calatrava 375 INDEX OF NAMES
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