Empire Building - Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

List of contents

Introduction; Part I: Orientalism and Architecture; 1: Useful Knowledge; 2: South-Savage; 3: Oriental Byzantium; Part II: Architecture and the Orient; Preface; 4: Architecture in Captivity; 5: The Spectacle of Alliance; 6: Dignified Progress; 7: New Jerusalems; Conclusion

About the author

Mark Crinson

Summary

Empire Building is a study of how and why western architecture was exported to the East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Crinson, Crinson Mark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.1996
• EAN: 9780415139403
• ISBN: 978-0-415-13940-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 280 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 720 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Cultural Studies, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / General, Middle East, Social groups, The environment, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Regional / International studies, Human Geography, Social groups, communities and identities