Architecture history, theory and preservation : prehistory to the middle ages

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    • Pabón-Charneco, Arleen

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Architecture history, theory and preservation : prehistory to the middle ages

Arleen Pabón-Charneco

Routledge, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of architecture. Complete with 170 full color images, this volume presents architectural and urban examples, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, chronologically and thematically examining contextual issues that provide each period with distinctive expressions. The special features, structural systems, materials and construction technologies are analyzed, as well as how the international community deals with the task of interpreting and preserving certain historic properties. This publication provides professors and students of architecture, art history, historic preservation and related fields with an integrated view of architecture using historical, theoretical and conservation perspectives. As an architect, architectural historian and preservationist herself, Dr Pabon-Charneco weaves a field of relationships regarding each building, creating a silent yet empowering bridge between past and present.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. A Fixed Place Under the Sky: The Invention of Architecture 2. Out of The Cave: Neolithic Architecture 3. Rivers of Cultures: Mesopotamian and Egyptian Architecture 4. When the Gods Were Human: Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture 5. Frogs Around a Pond: Architecture in Ancient Greece 6. In the Tuscan Manner: Etruscan Architecture 7. As Many Stars As In The Sky: Roman Architecture 8. One True Faith: Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Shinto Architecture 9. The Ages in the Middle: Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture 10. A Strange Region of the Universe: Gothic Architecture 11. Where Freedom Dwells: The City Revisited

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  • NCID
    BC0281736X
  • ISBN
    • 9781138326774
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 381 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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