Architecture in Context

Antiquity - 9781138038837 The first in this series of seven books, it describes the origins of the Classical tradition in the mountain temples of Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. The East - 9781138038981 The East describes and illustrates the seminal architectural traditions of the world, is a survey of unparalleled range and depth and also provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts. Islam - 9781138038899 The architecture of Islam comprises a high proportion of the world's most beautiful buildings, from perhaps the most perfect images of the lost Eden in the gardens of the Alhambra, to the built expression of the boundless expansion of the faith to be seen in the mosques of Ottoman Istanbul. The West - 9781138038929 This volume tells the story of European architecture in the 'middle ages' - from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society it had fostered to the rediscovery of Classical values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy. Reformations - 9781138038912 This fifth volume traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late-15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak characterized as the High Renaissance. Transformations - 9781138038950 Like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism - this sixth volume traces the development of architecture and decoration in the 17th and early 18th centuries - particularly the transformation of rationalist Classical ideals into the emotive, highly theatrical style known as Baroque. Modernity - 9781138038820 Modernity is a comprehensive survey of European architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England; to the triumph of Brutalism in the seventh decade of the twentieth century; on to a sketch of major trends building up to the turn of the millennium.