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Architecture : the critics' choice : 150 masterpieces of western architecture selected and defined by the experts / edited by Dan Cruickshank.

Contributor(s): Cruickshank, Dan.
Publisher: London : Aurum Press, c2000Description: 352 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 1854107208.Subject(s): Architecture -- HistoryDDC classification: 720.9
Contents:
Introduction / Dan Cruickshank - Ch. 1: The classical world / Robin Francis Rhodes - Ch. 2: Early Christian, Romanesque and Gothic / Robert Harbison - Ch. 3: Renaissance and Palladianism / Steven Parissien - Ch. 4: The Baroque / Christian Norberg-Schulz - Ch. 5: Neoclassicism / Gillian Darley - Ch. 6: The machine age / Gavin Stamp - Ch. 7: Fin De Siecle / Richard Etlin - Ch. 8: Modernism before 1945 / Alan Powers - Ch. 9: Modernism after 1945 / Peter Blundell Jones - Ch. 10: The end of the Millennium / Diane Ghirardo - Endword / Dan Cruickshank - Glossary - Bibliography - Index - Acknowledgements
Summary: Architecture : The Critics' Choice is a refreshingly different architecture book: a chronological tour of the world's architectural masterpieces - from the Classical period to Modernism and beyond - led by ten of the liveliest and best-qualified tour guides in the field. Each contributor discusses 15 personal choices, offering the reader an enormously varied selection : buildings known throughout the world, such as the Parthenon and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, are found alongside architectural treasures that have, until now, been the private pleasures of experts. Each building is described in detail in an essay that gives the critic's personal reasons for his or her choice ; covers who built it and why ; discusses aspects of design, materials used and construction ; and supplies an overview of the broader social context in which the building was created. Vividly written and beautifully illustrated, this book brings 2,000 years of architectural history to life. - Cover.
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Introduction / Dan Cruickshank - Ch. 1: The classical world / Robin Francis Rhodes - Ch. 2: Early Christian, Romanesque and Gothic / Robert Harbison - Ch. 3: Renaissance and Palladianism / Steven Parissien - Ch. 4: The Baroque / Christian Norberg-Schulz - Ch. 5: Neoclassicism / Gillian Darley - Ch. 6: The machine age / Gavin Stamp - Ch. 7: Fin De Siecle / Richard Etlin - Ch. 8: Modernism before 1945 / Alan Powers - Ch. 9: Modernism after 1945 / Peter Blundell Jones - Ch. 10: The end of the Millennium / Diane Ghirardo - Endword / Dan Cruickshank - Glossary - Bibliography - Index - Acknowledgements

Architecture : The Critics' Choice is a refreshingly different architecture book: a chronological tour of the world's architectural masterpieces - from the Classical period to Modernism and beyond - led by ten of the liveliest and best-qualified tour guides in the field. Each contributor discusses 15 personal choices, offering the reader an enormously varied selection : buildings known throughout the world, such as the Parthenon and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, are found alongside architectural treasures that have, until now, been the private pleasures of experts. Each building is described in detail in an essay that gives the critic's personal reasons for his or her choice ; covers who built it and why ; discusses aspects of design, materials used and construction ; and supplies an overview of the broader social context in which the building was created. Vividly written and beautifully illustrated, this book brings 2,000 years of architectural history to life. - Cover.