Main entry:
Watkin, David, 1941-2018, author.
Title & Author:
A history of Western architecture / David Watkin.
Publication:
London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1986.
Description:
591 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-584) and index.
1. The classical foundation, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman: The Bronze Age heritage ; The rise of Ionic ; The classic phase, 480-400 B.C. ; The Hellenistic background ; The rise of Rome ; Republican architecture ; Fora, basilicas and temples, the Roman synthesis ; Triumphal arches ; Palaces, villas, and the new architecture of concrete -- 2. Early Christian and Byzantine: Rome ; Constantinople, Salonica and Ravenna ; Hagia Sophia ; Later Byzantine architecture -- 3. Carolingian and Romanesque: The rise of Romanticism ; The Carolingian Renaissance ; Britain and Spain from the ninth to the early eleventh centuries ; Ottonian architecture and its influence ; France in the tenth and early eleventh centuries ; Normandy and England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; The pilgrimage churches of France and Spain ; Cluny III and the provincial schools of French Romanesque ; Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; Italy -- 4. The Gothic experiment: "The new light", Abbot Suger and the origins of Gothic ; High Gothic, Reims, Amiens, Beauvais and Bourges ; The Court style and Rayonnant Gothic ; The Flamboyant style ; secular buildings in medieval France ; Canterbury and its impact ; Lincoln and its impact ; Westminster Abbey ; The impact of Westminster and the origins of the Decorated style ; St. Stephen's Chapel and the origins of Perpendicular ; Parish churches and secular architecture ; Oxford and Cambridge colleges ; Cologne, Prague, and the Parler dynasty ; German late Gothic ; Secular architecture in Germany and Bohemia ; Belgium ; Early Gothic in Italy ; Gothic in Spain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; Juan Guas and the Isabelline style ; Gothic in Portugal.
Ch. 5. Renaissance harmony: The birth of Renaissance ; Florence and Brunelleschi ; Alberti ; Palaces and town planning in Pienza, Urbino and Florence ; Filarete and Leonardo ; High Renaissance ; St. Peter's from Bramante to Maderno ; Raphael, Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger ; Divergencies in Mantua, Giulio Romano ; Michaelangelo ; Sanmicheli and Sansovino ; Vignola and the origins of Baroque ; Palladio and High Renaissance harmony ; The Renaissance outside of Italy ; The establishment of French classicism, Lescot, de l'Orme and Bullant ; The development of classicism by de Brosse, Lemercier and Mansart ; England and the growth of the "prodigy house" ; Inigo Jones and high Renaissance clarity -- 6. Baroque expansion: The creation of Baroque, Bernini ; An individual voice, Borromini ; Pietro da Cortona ; Contrasting currents in late-Barique Rome ; Piedmont, Guarini, Juvarra, and Vittone ; Baroque outside Italy -- 7. Eighteenth-century classicism: Piranesi ; The origins of the Picturesque ; Lord Burlington and William Kent ; Robert Adam ; Chambers and Wyatt ; Dance and Soane ; Town planning ; The rise of Neo-Classicism in France ; Soufflot and Ste-Genevieve ; Peyre and de Wailly ; Ledoux and the Picturesque ; The classical tradition elsewhere in Europe ; The rise of Classicism in the USA -- 8. The nineteenth century: The rational tradition from Percier and Fontaine to Viollet-le-Duc ; From the Second Empire to the Paris Exposition of 1900 ; Regency and early Victorian ; Gothic revival ; Shaw and the late Victorians ; Schinkel and Klenze ; Gartnerand Semper in Munich and Vienna ; Greek and Gothic to the mid-century ; New theories and new directions from Hunt to Richardson ; Sullivan and the origin of skyscraper ; McKim, Mead and White and the return to classicism -- 9. Art Nouveau -- 10. The twentieth century: Frank Lloyd Wright ; Early-twentieth-century Berlin, Messel and Behrens ; The rise of Expressionism and the work of Poelzig ; Gropius and the Bauhaus ; From Adolf Loos to the International Modern style ; Early-twentieth-century France and the Louis Seize Revival ; Perret, Garnier and Sauvage ; Le Corbusier ; Futurism, classicism and Rationalism in Italy ; Lutyens, the conservative genius ; Traditionalism and modernism in Britain ; Modernism and traditionalism in the USSR ; Modernism after 1945 ; Post-modernism.
ISBN:
0712612793
9780712612791
Subject:
Architecture History.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.
Architektur
Geschichte
Western world Architecture, to 1985
Holdings:
Location: Library main 14988
Call No.: NA200.W412 (ID:87-B4402)
Status: Available
