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Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings in The Architecture Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Architecture in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Architecture Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.
This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Architecture, with:
- A global scope, covering architecture from all over the world
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding
The Architecture Book is a captivating introduction to buildings and the ideas, and principles that make them key to the history and evolution of our built environment - aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll discover the most important ideas, technologies, and movements in the history of architecture and structural engineering, through exciting text and bold graphics.
Your Architecture Questions, Simply Explained
Learn about the evolution of construction, from ancient and classical architecture through Medieval, Gothic, and Renaissance buildings, Baroque and Rococo, to 19th-century emerging modernism and postmodernism and glittering skyscrapers. If you thought it was difficult to learn about buildings and the ideas behind them, The Architecture Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Explore architectural movements, styles and celebrated buildings from all over the world, and stunning religious structures from mosques to churches, stupas to pagodas and temples.
The Big Ideas Series
With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Architecture Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
Author Notes
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From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books.
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Table of Contents
| Introduction | 10 |
| The Advent of Architecture Before 650 CE | |
| Sustaining life itself | 18 |
| Shelter | |
| The bond between heaven and earth | 20 |
| The ziggurat | |
| Greater than words can tell | 22 |
| The pyramid | |
| Proportion, strength, and beauty | 26 |
| The column | |
| Increasing the power of the voice | 34 |
| The theater | |
| Far and wide, stupas may rise | 36 |
| The stupa | |
| I broke the earth's veins | 37 |
| The Great Wall | |
| Two weaknesses combine to form one strength | 38 |
| The arch | |
| Building new houses, one after another | 42 |
| Dwellings | |
| The temple of the whole world | 46 |
| The dome | |
| A place for the people to gather | 48 |
| The basilica | |
| A tower that touched the moon | 50 |
| Early imperial China | |
| A golden dome suspended from heaven | 52 |
| Byzantine | |
| The Middle Ages 650-1420 | |
| The haven where man's spirit, soul, and body find refuge | 58 |
| Islamic inspiration | |
| The ornament of the world | 64 |
| Moorish architecture | |
| The oneness of humans with the land and sky | 66 |
| The pueblo | |
| The physical form of God | 68 |
| Indian temples | |
| The rebirth of golden Rome | 70 |
| Romanesque | |
| Monumental pillars in the stream of time | 72 |
| The castle | |
| Infinity made imaginable | 74 |
| Gothic | |
| Architecture without architects | 82 |
| Timber-frame building | |
| An act of piety | 86 |
| Southeast Asian temples | |
| From the rock as if by magic grown | 88 |
| Rock-cut buildings | |
| Heaven-sent material | 90 |
| Mud | |
| Civic life inscribed indelibly | 94 |
| Secular Gothic | |
| An entirely new sense of proportion | 96 |
| Late imperial China | |
| Nothing can possibly be more graceful | 98 |
| Late-flowering Gothic | |
| Palaces in the clouds | 100 |
| Mountain cities | |
| The Renaissance to Revivals 15th-18th Century | |
| Man is the measure of all things | 106 |
| The Renaissance | |
| A microcosm of cosmic harmony | 114 |
| Italian hill towns | |
| Crystalline sharpness, symmetrical complexity | 115 |
| The ideal city | |
| Extravagant inventions | 116 |
| Mannerism | |
| Nobility without arrogance | 118 |
| French and Spanish Renaissance | |
| A sweet harmony | 122 |
| Palladianism | |
| Splendid buildings and remarkable domes | 124 |
| The Ottoman Empire | |
| For the comfort of God's creatures | 126 |
| The caravanserai | |
| A universal symbol of the heavenly archetype | 127 |
| The Islamic garden | |
| The great peace under heaven | 128 |
| Edo-period Japan | |
| Isfahan is half the world | 132 |
| Safavid Empire | |
| A mind inclined entirely toward building | 134 |
| Mughal India | |
| Those who never dare to break the rules never surpass them | 138 |
| Baroque | |
| Emotion, grief, ecstasy, and faith | 146 |
| Latin American Baroque | |
| Gloriously spontaneous decorations | 148 |
| Rococo | |
| A beautiful and proportional simplicity | 150 |
| Classicism | |
| This monument must remain for an eternity | 154 |
| Russian Empire | |
| The Industrial Age 1800-1903 | |
| The Age of Machinery | 160 |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| I strive to revive | 164 |
| Gothic Revival | |
| Fitting together like a puzzle | 168 |
| Prefabrication | |
| The authentic style of the old knights' castles | 172 |
| Eclecticism | |
| The straight line cannot be found in nature | 174 |
| Organic forms | |
| There is an attraction in the colossal | 176 |
| Wrought iron | |
| The desire to produce beautiful things | 178 |
| Arts and Crafts | |
| Do not the branches of the trees furnish us with models? | 180 |
| Art Nouveau | |
| Town and country must be made one | 182 |
| The garden city | |
| Modernism and the Alternatives 1903-1970 | |
| Every particle is doing structural duty | 188 |
| The concrete frame | |
| Ornament is wasted labor | 190 |
| Pioneering Modernism | |
| One entered the city like a god | 196 |
| Reviving the past | |
| An exhibition of force, of resolution, of brains | 198 |
| The skyscraper | |
| Visible symbol of power | 204 |
| Imperial legacy | |
| A structural artist | 206 |
| Industrial aesthetics | |
| We will remember them | 208 |
| War memorials | |
| Everything must be revolutionized | 210 |
| Futurism | |
| Function without sensibility remains mere construction | 212 |
| Expressionism | |
| The atmosphere of old Spain | 216 |
| Spanish Colonial revisited | |
| Creating a new world | 218 |
| Architecture of the Russian Revolution | |
| A house is a machine for living in | 220 |
| Functionalism | |
| The very best possible homes for workers | 226 |
| Expressive mass housing | |
| Every part had to speak | 228 |
| Elemental architecture | |
| Less is more | 230 |
| Building Minimalism | |
| Hot jazz in stone and steel | 232 |
| Art Deco | |
| The chairs are architecture | 234 |
| Architectural design | |
| A palace for the people | 236 |
| Metro style | |
| The urge to demonstrate one's strength | 238 |
| Statement architecture | |
| The new Rome will emerge | 242 |
| Italian Empire | |
| A building should appear to grow easily from its site | 246 |
| American Modern | |
| The humanizing of architecture | 248 |
| Humane Functionalism | |
| The truthfulness of materials of construction | 250 |
| Late Le Corbusier | |
| A mosaic of glass | 252 |
| Postwar skyscrapers | |
| An architecture of elegant omission | 254 |
| Mid-century Modern | |
| Modernism's angry underside | 256 |
| Brutalism | |
| Sensory stimulation | 260 |
| Sensual modernity | |
| Not simply designed but choreographed | 262 |
| A new city | |
| Overflowing fantasy | 264 |
| Free spirits | |
| Postmodern and Contemporary 1970 Onward | |
| On the edge of the possible | 270 |
| Pure form | |
| Material as spent light | 272 |
| Modern monumentalism | |
| A completely new world of forms | 274 |
| Gridshells and webs | |
| I put the structure outside | 276 |
| High-tech | |
| The past is transformed to become part of the present | 278 |
| The new vernacular | |
| Less is a bore | 280 |
| Postmodernism | |
| Daily life should be exalted | 286 |
| Postmodern Classical | |
| The spiritualization of nature | 288 |
| Connecting heaven and earth | |
| The form is interrogated | 290 |
| Deconstructivism | |
| Harmony with nature | 292 |
| Green architecture | |
| I work from the inside out | 300 |
| Sensationalism | |
| The house will define my world | 304 |
| Accessibility | |
| A living tradition | 305 |
| Classical Revival | |
| A beautiful silence | 306 |
| Soulful modern | |
| There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? | 308 |
| New forms | |
| Understanding architecture by understanding the environment | 312 |
| West African architecture | |
| A deal between architecture and nature | 314 |
| Modernism in Sri Lanka | |
| A mechanism for healing the planet | 316 |
| Response to the earth | |
| Directory | 318 |
| Glossary | 326 |
| Index | 328 |
| Quote Attributions | 335 |
| Acknowledgments | 336 |
