Eyewitness Companions: Architecture
- ISBN-10
- 0756644828
- ISBN-13
- 9780756644826
- Series
- Eyewitness Companions
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-17
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Jonathan Glancey
Description
Explore the world''s greatest buildings! Architecture is filled with amazing illustrations and photographs that take you to the heart of the world''s landmark buildings. Get the opportunity to look beyond the facade. Examine materials and technology that shape buildings, and identify thekey elements and decorative features of each architectural style. This is the best definitive visual guide on architecture; it covers 5,000 years of architectural design, style, and construction from airports to ziggurats. Dissects architectural wonders inside and out Includes palaces, great temples, cathedrals and towering modern skyscrapers
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