Architecture / by David Jacobs.

Main entry:

Jacobs, David, 1939-

Title & Author:

Architecture / by David Jacobs.

Publication:

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

World of culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index.
Who's in charge here? -- Mountains in the river valleys -- Civicism and classicism -- New Rome, and new Romans -- The cathedral crusade -- Houses of the soul -- Princes and other patrons -- Looking back and looking forward -- Architects on architecture -- A chronology of architecture.

Summary:

Reveals the way in which the buildings and monuments created by different civilizations throughout history provide insight into the culture, customs, values, and lifestyle of various peoples. The story of building, writes the author of this penetrating study, starts the way stories of so many of mankind's enterprises start - "speculatively, and in the almost immeasurably distant past." But it would be an exasperating experience to trace the evolution of mud huts into pyramids, Greek temples, and Gothic cathedrals. Instead he invites the reader to separate buildings for shelter from buildings as artistic statements. In an instant, we see architecture as a badge of civilization, "the requisite sign, the certain credential without which a society cannot be called civilized."

ISBN:

0882251074
9780882251073
0882251082 (de luxe)
9780882251080

Subject:

Architecture History.
Architecture Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE--HISTORY.
Architecture

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

World of culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13242
Call No.: PO13985; ID:87-B3676
Status: Available

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