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Architectural Styles : A Visual Guide / Margaret Fletcher, Robbie Polley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 600 b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691213781
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720 23
LOC classification:
  • NA204 .F54 2020eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Ancient and Classical -- 2 Medieval and Renaissance -- 3 Baroque to Art Nouveau -- 4 Modern and Contemporary -- 5 Elements -- Glossary -- Index
Summary: A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout historyArchitectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts—from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting—along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.Comprehensive and authoritative, Architectural Styles is an essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Ancient and Classical -- 2 Medieval and Renaissance -- 3 Baroque to Art Nouveau -- 4 Modern and Contemporary -- 5 Elements -- Glossary -- Index

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A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout historyArchitectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts—from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting—along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.Comprehensive and authoritative, Architectural Styles is an essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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