Main entry:

Strickland, Carol.

Title & Author:

The annotated arch : a crash course in the history of architecture / Carol Strickland ; book designer, Barbara Cohen Aronica ; photographic researcher, Toby Greenberg ; managing editor, Patty Brown ; editor, Amy Handy.

Publication:

Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel Pub., ©2001.

Description:

xiv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"A John Boswell Associates book."
Includes index.
Introduction: the Elements of Architecture ix -- Ancient World: the Building Blocks 2 -- Prehistoric Architecture: Rock of Ages 4 -- Mesopotamia: the Dawn of Civilization 6 -- Egypt: Architecture to Die for 8 -- Greece: the Classics 12 -- Rome: Concrete Achievements 20 -- The Middle Ages: Church and State 30 -- Byzantine Splendor 32 -- Romanesque: a Mighty Fortress 38 -- Gothic: Building Lite 44 -- Renaissance and Baroque: all Roads Lead from Rome 54 -- The Renaissance: Age of Rediscovery 56 -- High Renaissance: Rome 61 -- Late Renaissance 63 -- The Renaissance in France 66 -- England and Inigo Jones 67 -- Baroque Architecture: Twirls and Swirls 68 -- Baroque Classicism: France 72 -- English Baroque: Solid and Severe 75 -- Austria and Germany: Rococo Reigns 77 -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: a Passion for the Past 80 -- The Eighteenth Century: Reason and Romance 82 -- England: Battle of the Styles 83 -- France: Vision and Revision 89 -- Colonial Architecture: Building the New World 92 -- The Nineteenth Century: Deja Vu All Over Again 96 -- The Cast-Iron Age 97 -- England's Neoclassic Revival: Remembrance of Things Past 100 -- Germany: Prussia Embraces the Past 103 -- France: Napoleonic Splendor 104 -- United States: New Nation, Old Styles 106 -- The Twentieth Century: From Hope to Irony 118 -- 1900-1965: Modernism, Spare and Square 120 -- Frank Lloyd Wright: Breaking the Box 126 -- California Dreamin' 130 -- The Bauhaus: Industrial Strength 132 -- International Style: The Art of Subtraction 133 -- Modern Rebels 138 -- Contemporary Architecture: Pluralism Replaces Purism 142 -- Post-Modernism: At Play in the Fields of History 143 -- High-Tech: Inside-out Architecture 149 -- Neo-Modernism: Keeping the Faith 151 -- New Directions: Deconstructivism 155 -- New Formalism: Architecture as Sculpture 158 -- New Urbanism: Miles of Smiles 163 -- Cherchez la Femme: the Invisible Female Architect 165 -- New Blood 101: The Shape of Things to Come 166.

Summary:

The Annotated Arch takes architectural history out of the realm of dreary textbooks into a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays and instructive sidebars. These graphic devices heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief run-through of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in the history of architecture. Incorporating more than 250 illustrations, The Annotated Arch draws on the very elements of architecture to craft a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary textbook could match. From Stonehenge to the Eiffel Tower, from Flippo Brunelleschi to Frank Lloyd Wright, the language of architecture is clarified in five sections. Everything you always wanted to know about architecture is all right here in The Annotated Arch, which covers architectural wonders from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Presented in a reader-friendly format, this new book enlightens, entertains, and informs with its lively look at architecture. What's the difference between Doric, Corinthian, and Ionic? Within the 192 illustrated pages of The Annotated Arch, readers will learn all about these distinctive styles--and more. From engineering breakthroughs to cultural history, from biographical anecdotes to analyses of corresponding and clashing styles The Annotated Arch covers all the architectural bases. The book breaks new ground with excerpts from interviews conducted by the author with leading contemporary architects. This new Annotated book follows Carol Strickland's first volume on art history, The Annotated Mona Lisa. Peppered with sidebars, The Annotated Arch will appeal to anyone who loves architecture or who simply wants to learn more about it in a painless, enjoyable way. It's a great, educational read.

ISBN:

0740715232 (hd.)
9780740715235 (hd.)
0740710249 (pbk.)
9780740710247 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture History.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Handy, Amy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221760
Call No.: NA200 .S77 2001
Status: Available