Architectural details : a visual guide to 5000 years of building styles / Emily Cole, general editor.
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TextLanguage: English Lewes, East Sussex : Ivy Press, 2017©2017 Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782401698q(paperback)Other title: Visual guide to five thousand years of building styles | Architectural Details : a visual guide to 2000 years of building styles [Cover title]Subject(s): Architecture -- Details -- History | Architecture -- DetailsLOC classification: NA2840 .A73 2017Summary: Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Of course. But what about an entablature, a hypostyle, a pylon, or a pagoda? Architecture Styles uses beautifully engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-and-tell journey round the architecture of civilisations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Most of the drawings and engravings have been taken from early sources, unparalleled for their elegance and delicacy of line, as well as for the amount of fine detail they offer. Extended captions and annotation supply you with a complete naming of parts which, as well as identifying and defining the correct terminology, will help you to understand how architects have planned and made the buildings of the past, from Amenhotep to Palladio, and Vitruvius to Wren. https://www.murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/art-design-architecture/the-arts/Architectural-Details-Emily-Cole-9781782401698
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| Books | MEF Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi | Genel Koleksiyon | NA 2840 .A73 2017 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0014267 |
"First published in 2002 as The Grammar of Architecture."--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-245) and index.
Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Of course. But what about an entablature, a hypostyle, a pylon, or a pagoda? Architecture Styles uses beautifully engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-and-tell journey round the architecture of civilisations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Most of the drawings and engravings have been taken from early sources, unparalleled for their elegance and delicacy of line, as well as for the amount of fine detail they offer. Extended captions and annotation supply you with a complete naming of parts which, as well as identifying and defining the correct terminology, will help you to understand how architects have planned and made the buildings of the past, from Amenhotep to Palladio, and Vitruvius to Wren.