I am overall very satisfied with the book, I have used other text books before and found them either too encyclopedic or too summarized. This book exhibits a great balance of in-depth information and overview. I would and have highly recommended it to colleagues.

Anne-Catrin Schultz, Wentworth Institute of Technology

This book offers a rigorous and multicultural understanding of the chronological time frame. It has a great value, especially in the way it historically addresses the importance of both vernacular and indigenous architectural production."

Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University

World Architecture, Second Edition, is the first text to offer both the required global coverage and the rigor that I apply in the classroom. It allows me to teach the class along roughly chronological lines without imposing a western narrative on the entire history of architecture."

Julia Walker, Binghamton University

Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comparative maps, a glossary, and text boxes devoted to social factors and specific issues in technology and philosophy. The result is a compendious method for understanding and appreciating the history, cultural significance, beauty, and diversity of architecture from around the world.
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PrefaceChapter 1 Prehistory1.1 ARCHITECTURE as a SECOND NATURE: Sacred Caves and Primitive Huts 1.2 VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: A Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, and Stones 1.3 MEGALITHS and STONE CIRCLES: Building as MemoryChapter 2 3000-1500 bce2.1 CITIES of MESOPOTAMIA: Mud, Gods, and Urbanism 2.2 OLD KINGDOM EGYPT: Architecture for the Afterlife 2.3 THE INDUS VALLEY: Cities without MonumentsChapter 3 1500-750 bce3.1 THE AEGEAN in the BRONZE AGE: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls 3.2 NEW KINGDOM EGYPT: Axial Temples and Colossal Statues 3.3 BIBLICAL JERUSALEM: Architecture and MemoryChapter 4 700-200 bce4.1 SOUTHWEST ASIA and ACHAEMENID PERSIA: A Cycle of Empires 4.2 THE GREEK CITY-STATE: Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora 4.3 MAURYAN INDIA: Emblems of Peace in StoneChapter 5 200 bce-300 ce5.1 ANCIENT ROME: Governing through Architecture 5.2 ANCIENT CHINA: The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood 5.3 ANCIENT MEXICO: Pyramids and SacrificeChapter 6 300-6006.1 EARLY CHRISTIAN ITALY: The Inward Orientation of the Church 6.2 BYZANTIUM: The Dome as an Act of Faith 6.3 GUPTA INDIA: Rock-Cut Architecture and the Art of SubtractionChapter 7 600-8007.1 THE SPREAD of ISLAM: Hypostyle Mosques and Soaring Minarets 7.2 TANG CHINA and EAST ASIA: Gridded Capitals and Lofty Pagodas 7.3 THE MAYA of CENTRAL AMERICA: Reproducing the Mountain of CreationChapter 8 800-12008.1 SOUTHEAST ASIA and SOUTHERN INDIA: Lived-in Models of Cosmic Order 8.2 ISLAMIC SPAIN and MOROCCO: Interlacing Forms in al-Andalus and the Maghreb 8.3 WESTERN EUROPE after the ROMAN EMPIRE: Monks, Knights, and PilgrimsChapter 9 1200-13509.1 THE MERCANTILE MEDITERRANEAN: New Facades for Old Cities 9.2 GOTHIC EUROPE: The Fabric of the Great Cathedrals 9.3 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Living ArchitectureChapter 10 1350-150010.1 HUMANIST ITALY: Public Spaces and Private Palaces of the Renaissance 10.2 EASTERN EUROPE: From the Spirit of Wood to the Conventions of Masonry 10.3 PRE-CONTACT AMERICA: Empires of the SunChapter 11 1500-160011.1 CHINA after 1000: The Mandate of Heaven Made to Last 11.2 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A Culture of Local Symmetries 11.3 PAPAL ROME: The Fountainhead of Renaissance ClassicismChapter 12 1600-170012.1 ISLAMIC REALMS in CENTRAL ASIA: The Dome of Power, the Garden of Paradise 12.2 CATHOLIC EUROPE: The Settings of Absolutism 12.3 EDO JAPAN: Isolation from the World, Integration with NatureChapter 13 1700-175013.1 PROTESTANT EUROPE: An Architecture of Essentials 13.2 THE DIFFUSION of the BAROQUE: Life as Theater 13.3 THE AMERICAN COLONIES: Domination and Liberty on the GridChapter 14 1750-180014.1 THE PICTURESQUE: Landscapes of the Informal, the Exotic, and the Sublime 14.2 ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE: Theory, Revolution, and Architecture 14.3 INDUSTRY AND PUNISHMENT: Factories and Warehouses, Prisons and WorkhousesChapter 15 1800-185015.1 AFTER the REVOLUTION: The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism 15.2 THE GOTHIC REVIVAL: Antimodern and Proto-Nationalist 15.3 THE NEW IRON AGE: The Spread of Metal and Glass TechnologiesChapter 16 1850-189016.1 THE RISE of the METROPOLIS: Urbanism and the New Scale of Architecture 16.2 LIFESTYLES and HOUSE FORM: Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, and Utopias 16.3 THE BEAUX-ARTS: Eclecticism and ProfessionalismChapter 17 1890-192017.1 ARTS and CRAFTS: Design and the Dignity of Labor 17.2 THE TWILIGHT of WESTERN IMPERIALISM: Monuments to the White Man's Burden 17.3 ART NOUVEAU and the SEARCH for MODERN FORM: Architecture without PrecedentsChapter 18 1920-194018.1 AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS and AUTOMOBILES: Mass Production Meets Individualism 18.2 EUROPEAN MODERNISMS: A Dialogue between Form and Function 18.3 TOTALITARIAN SETTINGS in MODERN EUROPE: Architecture as PropagandaChapter 19 1940-197019.1 THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE and the ADVENT of the WELFARE STATE: Modernism Becomes Conventional 19.2 THE BIRTH of the THIRD WORLD: Experiments in Postcolonial Architecture 19.3 THE EXPRESSIONIST RESURGENCE: Hybrids amid Mass CultureChapter 20 After 197020.1 POSTMODERN MOVEMENTS: Populism, Radicalism, and Irony 20.2 MULTINATIONAL PRATICE: Globalization, High Tech, and Hypertecture 20.3 TOWARD an ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW: Architecture and the AnthropoceneGlossary Credits Index
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"This book offers a rigorous and multicultural understanding of the chronological time frame. It has a great value, especially in the way it historically addresses the importance of both vernacular and indigenous architectural production." -- Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University"World Architecture, Second Edition, is the first text to offer both the required global coverage and the rigor that I apply in the classroom. It allows me to teach the class along roughly chronological lines without imposing a western narrative on the entire history of architecture." -- Julia Walker, Binghamton University
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Stunning full-color visuals: More than 800 color photographs, hundreds of original graphics, architectural drawings, and maps, and meticulous diagrams demonstrate how classic buildings were createdHelpful learning and study tools: New timelines, chapter introductions, text boxes with fascinating case studies, bibliographies, review questions, and a glossary help students identify key information and better prepare them for exams and class assignments
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Richard Ingersoll teaches courses in Renaissance and contemporary art, architecture, and urbanism at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.
Stunning full-color visuals: More than 800 color photographs, hundreds of original graphics, architectural drawings, and maps, and meticulous diagrams demonstrate how classic buildings were createdHelpful learning and study tools: New timelines, chapter introductions, text boxes with fascinating case studies, bibliographies, review questions, and a glossary help students identify key information and better prepare them for exams and class assignments
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190646455
Publisert
2018
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
1996 gr
Høyde
277 mm
Bredde
213 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
1008

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Biografisk notat

Richard Ingersoll teaches courses in Renaissance and contemporary art, architecture, and urbanism at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.