Historical Dictionary Of Architecture

Klappentext The Historical Dictionary of Architecture provides information on architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, as well as on famous structures like the Acropolis, the Colosseum, the Forbidden City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the World Trade Center. The dictionary examines the development of architecture over the centuries through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the major architects, well-known buildings, time periods, styles, building types, and materials in world architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Lee Palmer
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9780810858213
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-5821-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Lit
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture