| Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome Contributor(s): Tadgell, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415407508 ISBN-13: 9780415407502 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Lavishly illustrated, this book is a comprehensive reference to the history of architecture and is the first in a series of five titles describing the architectural traditions of the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome - Architecture | History - General - Architecture | Reference |
| Dewey: 722 |
| Physical Information: 2.4" H x 7.2" W x 8.4" (4.70 lbs) 866 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish. More than a catalogue of buildings, in this work Tadgell provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts and explores architecture, not only as the development of form and space but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolves. The buildings are analyzed and illustrated with over 1200 colour photographs and 400 drawings while the societies that produced them are brought to life through a broad selection of their artefacts. |