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內容簡介: |
In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces
the history of western architecture from the earliest times in
Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first
century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the
Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity
between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and
that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York.
Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth
edition has been expanded to bring the story of western
architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter
on twenty-first century developments, including computers and
architecture, and sustainability and the environment.
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關於作者: |
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.
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