Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and

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Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms

This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of classical architecture in itself.
Professor James Stevens Curl discusses in clear, straightforward language the origins of classical architecture in Greek and Roman antiquity and outlines its continuous development, through its various manifestations during the Renaissance, its transformations in Baroque and Rococo phases, its reemergence in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Neoclassicism, and its survival into the modern era. The text and illustrations celebrate the richness of the classical architectural vocabulary, grammar, and language, and demonstrate the enormous range of themes and motifs found in the subject.

All those who wish to look at buildings old and new with an informed eye will find in this book a rich fund of material, and the basis for an understanding of a fecund source of architectural design that has been at the heart of western culture for over two and a half millennia.
333 b&w illustrations
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 333 illustrations
ReleaseDate 2003-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393731194

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	333 illustrations
ReleaseDate	2003-05-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393731194

Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms

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