Entrée principale:

Tadgell, Christopher, 1939-

Titre et auteur:

Antiquity : origins, classicism and the new Rome / Christopher Tadgell.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

viii, 867 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 22 cm.

Série(s):

Architecture in context ; 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : origins -- pt. 1. West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 1.1. The fertile crescent and the Nile Valley -- 1. Sumer -- 2. The old kingdom of Egypt -- 3. Mesopotamian empires -- 4. Theban kingdoms of the Nile -- 1.2. The Aegean, Anatolia and the Aryans -- 5. Minoans and Achaeans -- 1.3. Issues from a dark age -- 6. Levant -- 7. Sabea -- 8. World empire -- pt. 2. Pre-Columbian America -- 2.1. Mesoamerica -- 1. The pre-Classic era of the Olmecs -- 2. Classic achievement -- 3. The post-classic world of the Toltecs and Aztecs -- 2.2. The Andean littoral -- pt. 3. The classical world -- 3.1. Hellenic order -- 1. The ordering of architecture -- 2. Doric from archaic to classical -- 3. Periklean apogee -- 4. Planning and technology -- 5. Polis in crisis -- 3.2. Macedonians and the east -- 6. Late-classical planning and defence -- 3.3. Republican Rome and its mentors -- 7. Etruscan legacy -- 8. Hellenization and engineering -- 3.4. Augustan Rome and its empire -- 9. Augustan Rome and vitruvius -- 10. Form and imperial style -- 11. Mass and imperial space -- pt. 4. Christianity and empire -- 4.1. Rome and new Romes -- 1. Constantinian building -- 2. Division and late-imperial Rome -- 3. Early imperial Byzantium and diversity -- 4. Beyond the pale : Ethiopia -- 4.2. Justinian and the apotheosis of Byzantium -- 5. Consolidation and standardization in the east -- Epilogue : the last half millennium of Byzantium.

Résumé:

Describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, this title traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape environments began to flourish.

Ressources:
Related Electronic Resource: Web page with scanned depiction of table of contents:

ISBN:

9780415407502 (hbk.)
0415407508 (hbk.)

Sujet:

Architecture, Ancient.
Architecture, Classical.
Architecture antique.
building construction.
history.
Antike
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Arkitektur historia.
Klassisk arkeologi.
Griechenland
Mittelmeerraum
Römisches Reich

Vedettes secondaires:

Tadgell, Christopher, 1939- Architecture in context ; 1.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 261109
Cote: BIB 192090
Statut: Disponible