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Architecture : the critics' choice : 150 masterpieces of western architecture

Title
Architecture : the critics' choice : 150 masterpieces of western architecture / edited by Dan Cruickshank.
Publication
New York, NY : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Cruickshank, Dan.
Description
352 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
"Ten prominent architecture experts take a greatest-hits approach to defining the major movements in western architectural styles, technologies and philosophies."--Booklist.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Dan Cruickshank -- The classical world / Robin Francis Rhodes -- Early Christian, Romanesque, and Gothic / Robert Harbison -- Renaissance and Palladianism / Steven Parissien -- The Baroque / Christian Norberg-Schulz -- Neoclassicism / Gillian Darley -- The Machine Age / Gavin Stamp -- Fin de Siecle / Richard A. Etlin -- Modernism before 1945 / Alan Powers -- Modernism after 1945 / Peter Blundell Jones -- The end of the Millennium / Diane Ghirardo.
ISBN
  • 0823002896
  • 9780823002894
LCCN
00100635
OCLC
  • ocm45187827
  • 45187827
  • SCSB-1139208
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library