Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

by Fletcher, Margaret
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ISBN: 9780691208077
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A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history

Handbook of Architectural Styles is an incomparable historical and visual guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robert Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes you from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of architectural styles, from historical to the present day, ranging from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts--from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting--along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.

Comprehensive and authoritative, Handbook of Architectural Styles is an essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Fletcher, Margaret
  • ISBN: 9780691208077
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.20 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English

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