Research Catalog

Title

World Architecture : an Illustrated History / introduction by H.R. Hitchcock ; Seton Lloyd, David Talbot Rice, Norbert Lynton, Andrw Boyd, Andrew Carden, Philip Rawson, John Jacobus ; editor: Trewin Copplestone.

Publication

[New York] : McGraw-Hill, [1963]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987
• Lloyd, Seton
• Copplestone, Trewin

Description

348 pages : illustrations (some color) maps, plans; 35 cm

Subject

• Architecture > History
• Architecture
• Arquitetura (Historia)
• Architecture > History

Genre/Form

History

Contents

• [Table of Contents] -- Introduction / Henry-Russell Hitchcock -- Ancient & Classical Architecture / Seton Lloyd -- Prehistoric and Mesopotamian -- Egypt -- Crete and the Aegean -- Greek and Hellenistic -- Roman -- Primitive Dwellings Today -- Chinese Architecture / Andrew Boyd -- The Chinese Building, 1500-221 B.C. -- The Unification of China -- The Introduction of Buddhism -- The Mongol Invasion -- The Manchus -- The Last Feudal Dynasty -- The House and Family -- The Chinese Garden and Artificial Landscape -- Japanese Architecture / Andrew Carden -- Race -- Geography and Climate -- Materials -- The Pre-Buddhist Period -- Asuka Period -- Nara Period -- Kamakura Period -- Muramachi Period -- Monoyama Period -- Yedo Period -- Indian Architecture / Philip Rawson -- The Cities of the Indus Valley -- Early Forms of Architecture -- The Hindu Temple -- Islamic Architecture / Philip Rawson -- The Types of Building -- Egypt -- North Africa and Spain -- Mesopotamia and Persia -- Turkey -- India -- Medieval Architecture / David Talbot Rice -- Early Christian -- Byzantine -- Russia -- Art in the West -- Romanesque in France -- Romanesque in Spain -- Romanesque in Britain -- Romanesque in Italy -- Romanesque in Germany -- Problems of Vaulting -- Gothic on the Continent -- Gothic in Britain -- Renaissance Architecture / Norbert Lynton -- Italy in the Fifteenth Century -- The Early Renaissance -- Italy in the Sixteenth Century -- High Renaissance and Mannerism -- The Sixteenth Century Outside Italy -- Italy in the Seventeenth Century -- France in the Seventeenth Century -- Spain in the Seventeenth Century -- Palladianism in Northern Europe -- English Architecture from the Restoration to George I -- The Netherlands -- Later Seventeenth Century -- France from 1715 to about 1760 -- Rococo in Central Europe -- Early Eighteenth Century -- England 1715-1760 -- Disintegration of the Renaissance -- Pre-Columbian -- Modern Architecture / John Jacobus Jr. -- Introduction -- Romantic Classicism: the Style of 1800 -- Nationalism and Imperialism -- Towards a New Architecture -- The Classic Moment in Modern Architecture -- The Expansion of Modern Architecture.
• [List of Colour Plates] -- Megalithic Monument, Stonehenge, Wiltshire, c. 1500 B.C. -- Colossus, erected by Amenhotep III, Thebes, c. 1400 B.C. -- Pylons of the temple of Horus, Edfu, 140-124 B.C. -- Temple of Horus, Edfu, Portico with screen between columns, c. 250-57 B.C. -- Palace of Minos at Cnossos, c. 1800-1600 B.C. North Porch -- Parthenon by night, Athens, 438 B.C. -- Roman theatre, Aspendos, c. 160-70 -- The Forum, Pompeii, c. 200 B.C. -- House of Vettii, Pompeii, c. A.D. 50 -- Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon, A.D. 10-249 -- Propylaea at Jerash (Gerasa) Jordan, c. A.D. 150 -- Temple of Heaven, Peking -- Bronze lion at Peking, seventeenth century -- Summer Palace, Peking, Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911) -- Great Wall of China, 221-210 B.C. -- Kasuga shrine, Nara. Founded in A.D. 768 -- Palace of the Shoguns, Kyoto, Yedo period (1615-1867 -- One of the five detached buildings which form the Nijo Palace, Kyoto, early seventeenth century -- Kandariya Mahadevo temple, Khajuraho, c. 1000 -- Mamallapuram Shore temple, Shore dynasty (623-74) -- Detail of sculptural decoration, Somnathpur, Mysore (1050-1300) -- Pillar top carving Chidambaram, thirteenth century -- Sta Maria la Blanca, Toledo, Spain, thirteenth century -- The Bab Zuwella, Cairo -- Cupola of tomb of Imman Zadeh -- Mosque of Sheik Lutfulla, Isfahan, Persia -- Court of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, fourteenth century -- St Sophia, Constantinople, A.D. 532-27 -- St Demetrius, Salonika, Greece, A.D. 500-50 -- St Mark's, Venice, 1042-85 -- Baptistry and cathedral, Pisa, 1153-1278 and 1063-92 -- Mosaic from San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, c. 540 -- Notre-Dame, Paris, 1163-c. 1250 -- Amiens Cathedral, 1218-88 -- Peterborough Cathedral, 1118-94, East end, choir -- Henry VII chapel, Westminster Abbey, London, c. 1512 -- Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain, 1075-1128 -- Palazzo del Senatore, the Capitol, Rome, 1592. Begun by Michelangelo, completed by Girolamo Rainaldi -- The Escorial, near Madrid, 1563-84. Built for Philip II by Juan Bautista de Toledo, completed by Juan de Herrera -- Sta Maria della Salute, Venice. Built by Baldassare Longhena, 1631-82 -- Church at Wies, Bavaria, 1746-54. Zimmermann -- Church of St Peter in Vienna, 1702-13 -- Grand Trianon, Versailles, France, 1687. Jules Hardouin-Mansad -- Chiswick House, London, 1725. Built by Lord Burlington and William Kent -- Carlton House Terrace, London, 1827. John Nash -- Paris Opera House, 1861-74. Charles Garnier -- Guaranty Building, Buffalo, N.Y., 1894-94. Louis H. Sullivan and Dankmar Adler -- Walter Gale House, Oak Park, Illinois, 1893. Frank Lloyd Wright -- Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois, 1908. Frank Lloyd Wright -- Brasilia. Twin office skyscraper and saucer-shaped House of Deputies, c. 1950. Niemeyer -- Mexico City, University Library, 1915-53. Juan O'Gorman, Gustavo Saavedra and Juan Martinez de Velasco -- Seagram Building, New York, 1956-58 Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson -- Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Mies van der Rohe, Entrance to Crown Hall, completed 1956 -- Säynätsalo Civic Centre, Finland, 1949-53. Alvar Aalto -- Interior, Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1950-55. Le Corbusier -- Woodland Crematorium, Stockholm South Cemetery, 1935-40. Erik Gunnar Asplund -- Exterior, Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, France.

LCCN

63015582

OCLC

• ocm01242161
• 1242161
• SCSB-300897

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library