Quick Read: Architecture

Author: Hillary French (translator: Liu Songtao)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This book categorizes architectural styles and types using the common methods found in art history, organizing architects and different types of buildings chronologically. Rather than focusing on local or ethnically traditional architecture, it emphasizes the works of master architects, including their architectural concepts expressed in text and drawings, or "unbuilt" works. This book categorizes architectural styles and types using the common methods found in art history, organizing architects and different types of buildings chronologically. Rather than focusing on local or ethnically traditional architecture, it emphasizes the works of master architects, including their architectural concepts expressed in text and drawings, or "unbuilt" works.