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Isms : understanding architectural styles / Jeremy Melvin.

By: Melvin, Jeremy, 1964-.
Publisher: New York, NY : Universe, 2006Description: 159 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0789313804 (pbk.).Subject(s): Architecture -- Themes, motives -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 720
Contents:
Ancient & pre-Renaissance. Pre-classicism -- Indism -- Proto-classicism -- Hellenic classicism -- Confucianism -- Roman classicism -- Pre-Columbianism -- Shintoism -- Christian classicism -- Islamicism -- Indo-Khmerism -- Gothic scholasticism -- Gothic commercialism -- Renaissance. Inventionism -- Humanism -- Idealism -- Mannerism -- Pietism -- Regional classicism -- Baroque -- Absolutism -- Anglican empiricism -- Rococo -- Palladianism ; Georgian urbanism -- Early modern. Neoclassicism -- Exoticism -- Sublimism -- Structural rationalism -- Materialism -- Medievalism -- Victorianism -- Monumental urbanism -- Anti-urbanism -- Decorative industrialism -- Imperialism -- Modernism. Expressionism -- Usonianism -- Constuctivism -- Purism -- Rationalism -- Functionalism -- Skyscraperism -- Totalitarianism -- Corporatism -- Brutialism -- Beyond modernism. Structuralism -- Regionalism -- Metabolism -- Postmodernism -- Technoism -- Neo-Rationalism -- Deconstructivism -- Ecoism -- Metarationalism -- Reference section. Introduction -- How to use this book -- Glossary of buildings -- Glossary of architects -- Glossary of useful terms -- Chronology of isms -- Places to visit -- Credits.
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Ancient & pre-Renaissance. Pre-classicism -- Indism -- Proto-classicism -- Hellenic classicism -- Confucianism -- Roman classicism -- Pre-Columbianism -- Shintoism -- Christian classicism -- Islamicism -- Indo-Khmerism -- Gothic scholasticism -- Gothic commercialism -- Renaissance. Inventionism -- Humanism -- Idealism -- Mannerism -- Pietism -- Regional classicism -- Baroque -- Absolutism -- Anglican empiricism -- Rococo -- Palladianism ; Georgian urbanism -- Early modern. Neoclassicism -- Exoticism -- Sublimism -- Structural rationalism -- Materialism -- Medievalism -- Victorianism -- Monumental urbanism -- Anti-urbanism -- Decorative industrialism -- Imperialism -- Modernism. Expressionism -- Usonianism -- Constuctivism -- Purism -- Rationalism -- Functionalism -- Skyscraperism -- Totalitarianism -- Corporatism -- Brutialism -- Beyond modernism. Structuralism -- Regionalism -- Metabolism -- Postmodernism -- Technoism -- Neo-Rationalism -- Deconstructivism -- Ecoism -- Metarationalism -- Reference section. Introduction -- How to use this book -- Glossary of buildings -- Glossary of architects -- Glossary of useful terms -- Chronology of isms -- Places to visit -- Credits.