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008			160104s2015 nyua g b 001 0 eng
010			_a2015487438
020			_a9781770855991 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1770855998 _q(hardcover)
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100	1		_aCruickshank, Dan, _eauthor _9416
245	1	2	_aA history of architecture in 100 buildings / _cDan Cruickshank
246	3		_aHistory of architecture in one hundred buildings
246	3	0	_a100 buildings
264		1	_aBuffalo, New York ; _aRichmond Hill, Ontario : _bFirefly Books, _c2015
300			_a352 pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c26 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 339-340) and index
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Pioneers -- Rhetoric (building with a message) -- Sacred -- Urban visions -- Big and beautiful -- Material matters -- Lost and found -- Glossary -- References -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements
520			_aArchitecture is an all-embracing adventure without end. It is a story that can never be completed - not as long as mankind continues to build, to invent, to discover; it is the story told in this book. The history of architecture is also a history of many other things - of politics, economy, religion, of science, ecology and of art and culture generally - and so is essentially a history of the world. For architecture - in its forms and functions - is a very direct mirror of mankind's desires, concerns and aspirations. Journeying across the world, from Syria to Shrewsbury, Sudan to Southern Spain, Dan Cruickshank explores man's most impressive creations. Not only the bastions of defense and aggression; homes for the gods and the dead; temples of commerce and the arts; palaces to express taste, power and wealth; and shrines of science, of learning, knowledge and politics - but also of mammon and of physical and spiritual oppression and incarceration. Can an ignoble cause create great architecture, can a prison be a thing of beauty as well as of power? These are perennial philosophical questions this book seeks to answer. Ingeniously structured by theme, this book surveys civilization through the pioneers, visionaries, follies, ancients, rhetoric, scale, survivals and revivals of its greatest constructions. Together, the stories in this beautifully illustrated book offer a stupendous global cultural history - a history that is full of mystery and ripe for rediscovery
650		0	_aArchitecture _xHistory _9417
650		0	_aBuildings _9418
650		0	_aHistoric buildings _9419
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _9400
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