The A to Z of Architecture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810868953)

Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs, aesthetic interests, materials, and techniques.

The A to Z 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.

Author: Allison Lee Palmer
ISBN-10: 0810868954
ISBN-13: 9780810868953
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2009
Pages: 402
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.63h x 6.51w x 0.99d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 237