Synopses & Reviews
The expanded second edition of this heavily illustrated survey provides students of both art history and architecture with a worldwide introduction to the history of architecture.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 572-575).
About the Author
Marian Moffett earned a B.Arch. at North Carolina State University (1971) and the M.Arch. and PhD. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973 and 1975, respectively). Since 1975, she has taught architectural history at he University of Tennessee, where she has collaborated with Lawrence Wodehouse in producing exhibitions and catalogs on the architecture of the Tennessee Valley Authority and cantilever barns, as well as co-authoring A History of Western Architecture and East Tennessee Cantilever Barns. Her research includes work on wooden architecture in eastern Europe and town planning in Tennessee. She is active with the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and has served as President of the UT Faculty Senate and as an academic administrator in the Office of the Provost. Michael Fazio is an architect and architectural historian. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Auburn University, a Master of Architecture Degree from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University. He practices architecture in the southeast region, most often as a preservation consultant preparing historic structures reports. He teaches architectural design studios and architectural history in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He is also an actively publishing scholar whose articles have appeared in the Society of Architectural Historians Journal, Arris (the journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians), and the Journal of Architectural Education. His book (with co-author Patrick Snadon of the University of Cincinnati), Inventing the American House: the Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, will be published in 2003 by The Johns Hopkins University Press and will be accompanied by an exhibition at The Octagon and Decatur House in Washington, D.C.Lawrence Wodehouse, a native of Norwich, England, received a Diploma in Architecture from the University of Durham (1959), a diploma in Town Planning from London University (1962), an M.Arch degree from Cornell University (1963), and a Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of St. Andrews (1980). He taught architectural history at Texas Technological University, North Carolina State University, Pratt Institute, the University of Dundee, and the University of Tennessee until his retirement in 1993. Known for his research on nineteenth and twentieth American architecture, he is the author of many books, Including East Tennessee Cantilever Barns (1993), The Roots of International Style Architecture (1991), A History of Western Architecture (1989), White of McKim, Mead and White (1988), Ada Louise Huxtable: A Bibliography (1981), and British Architects, 1841-1976 (1980), and numerous scholarly articles. He is a registered architect in the United Kingdom and a founding member of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Word about Drawings and Images
Using the CD
The Beginnings of Architecture
Prehistoric Settlements andMegalith Constructions
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
The Early Dynastic Period and OldKingdom (First through Eight Dynasties, CA. 2920-2134 BCE)
The Middle Kingdom (Elevenththrough Thirteenth Dynasties, CA. 2040-1640 BCE)
The New Kingdom (Eighteenththrough Twentieth Dynasties, CA. 1550-1070 BCE)
The Greek World
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Greece: The Archaic Period
Greece: The Classical Period
Greece: The Hellenistic Period
Greek City Planning
The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia
Early Buddhist Shrines
The Spread of Buddhist Influence
Early Hindu Shrines
Traditional Architecture of China and Japan
Chinese Architectural Principles
Principles of City Planning
Houses and Gardens
Japanese Temple Architecture
Japanese Cities, Castles, andHouses
Zen Buddhist Architecture
The Roman World
Roman Architecture
Building Techniques and Materials
City Planning
Temples
Public Buildings
Residences
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Early Christian Basilicas
Martyria, Baptistries, andMausolea
Byzantine Basilicas and DomedBasilicas
Centrally Planned ByzantineChurches
Byzantine Churches in Russia
Islamic Architecture
Early Shrines and Palaces
Development of the Mosque
Regional Variations in MosqueDesign
Houses, Palaces, and UrbanPatterns
Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture
Carolingian Architecture
Anglo-Saxon and VikingArchitecture
Early Romanesque Architecture
Romanesque Architecture of theHoly Roman Empire
Churches of the Pilgrimage Roads
The Order of Cluny
Romanesque Architecture ofAquitaine and Provence
Cistercian Monasteries
Norman Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Early Gothic
High Gothic
Gothic Architecture in England
Italian and German Gothic
Medieval Construction
Medieval Housing and Castles
Medieval Cities
Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Tribes of the Great Plains and theGreat Lakes
Tribes of the Northeast
Tribes of the Mississippi RiverBasin
Arctic and Subarctic Tribes
Tribes of the Northwest andNorthern California
Tribes of the Southwest
The Olmecs of the Eastern MexicanCoast
Teotihuacan in the Valley ofMexico
The Zapotecs and Mixtecs at MonteAlban in Oaxaca
Tikal and Oter Maya Sites inGuatemala and the Yucatan
The Toltecs in the Valley ofMexico
The Aztecs at Tenochlitlan
The Incas in the Andes
Renaissance Architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leone Battista Alberti
Other Renaissance City Plans
The Spread of the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Donato Bramante
The Late Renaissance or Mannerism
Michelangelo
Andrea Palladio
Palladios Venice
Garden Design
The Renaissance in France
The Renaissance in England
Baroque Architecture
The Catholic reformation andCounter Reformation
Pope Sixtus V and the Replanningof Rome
The Completion of St. Peters andthe Work of Gianlorenzo Bernini
The Small Roman Churches byFrancesco Borromini
Urban Open Spaces in Baroque Rome
The Spread of Baroque Architectureto Northern Italy
The Baroque in Central Europe
The Baroque in France
Christopher Wren and the Baroquein England
Hawksmoor, VanBrugh, and Gibbs
The Eighteenth Century
The English Neo-Palladians
The Return to Antiquity
Robert Adam and William Chambers
Étienne-Louis Boullée andClaude-Nicholas Ledoux
French Architects and theAggrandizement of the State
French Architectural Education andthe Ecole de Beaux Arts
The Challenge of the IndustrialRevolution
Romanticism and the Picturesque
The Romantic Landscape
Picturesque Buildings
Nineteenth Century Developments
Neo-Classicism
The Gothic Revival
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Progress in Iron and SteelFabrication
Architectural Applications of Ironand Steel Construction
Skeletal Construction in Concreteand Wood
The Arts and Crafts Movement
The Art Nouveau
The Vienna Secession
Henry Hobson Richardson and LouisSullivan in America
The Twentieth Century and Modernism
The Idea of a Modern Architecture
Adolf Loos
The Modern Masters
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Behrens and the DeutscherWerkbund
Futurism and Constructivism
Dutch and German Expressionism
The Art Deco
De Stijl
Architects and Engineers whoExploited the Potential of Concrete
Tony Garnier and the IndustrialCity
Le Corbusier
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
The Weissenhof Siedlung and theInternational Style
Later Work of Mies Van der Rohe
Later Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
Later Work of Le Corbusier
Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century
Alvar Aalto
Eero Saarinen
Louis I. Kahn
Robert Venturis RadicalCounter-Proposal to Modernism
Intellectual Inspirations forPost-Modernism
Philip Johnson
Charles Moore
Michael Graves
Robert A.M. Stern
Richard Meier
The Exploitation of Technology byJames Stirling and Others
Deconstruction
Peter Eisenman
Frank Gehry
Glenn Murcutt