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This seventh edition serves as a comprehensive reference for classic architecture, offering updated insights and illustrations. It explores key architectural styles, principles, and historical significance, making it an essential resource for students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike. Enhanced features and contemporary examples enrich the understanding of timeless design elements, ensuring relevance in today's architectural discourse.

The ruins of the Forum in Rome, the centre of its ancient Empire, are one of the best known wonders of antiquity and a highpoint of the tourist route round the Eternal City, but the Forum remains for many visitors a baffling and unwelcoming place. This book helps us to rediscover its rich history.

Preface p. 6 1 Mesopotamia and Egypt p. 9 Mesopotamia p. 9 Egypt p. 13 2 The Classical Foundation: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman p. 19 The Bronze Age Heritage p. 19 The Hellenistic Background p. 41 The Rise of Rome p. 57 3 Early Christian and Byzantine p. 89 4 Carolingian and Romanesque p. 107 5 The Gothic Experiment p. 149 France p. 150 England p. 168 Germany and Central Europe, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal p. 185 Town Planning p. 207 6 Renaissance Harmony p. 211 The Birth of the Renaissance p. 211 High Renaissance p. 223 The Renaissance Outside Italy p. 251 Town Planning p. 279 7 Baroque Expansion p. 283 Italy p. 283 Baroque Outside Italy p. 314 Town Planning p. 362 8 Eighteenth-Century Classicism p. 369 The Impact of Rome p. 369 The Rise of Neo-Classicism in France p. 391 The Classical Tradition Elsewhere in Europe p. 410 The Rise of Classicism in the USA p. 424 Town Planning p. 434 9 The Nineteenth Century p. 439 France p. 439 Britain p. 459 Germany, Austria and Italy p. 477 Scandinavia, Russia and Greece p. 497 Belgium and Holland p. 509 USA p. 512 Town Planning p. 530 10 Art Nouveau p. 537 Belgium and France p. 537 Scotland and England p. 543 Germany, Austria and Italy p. 546 Spain p. 556 11 The Twentieth Century p. 565 USA Up to 1939 p. 565 Europe Up to 1939 p. 582 Modernism After 1945 p. 648 Post-Modernism p. 660 Town Planning p. 668 Architecture for the Millennium p. 670 Glossary p. 685 Further Reading p. 688 Acknowledgements p. 693 Index p. 694

Traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. This book emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between the work of Ictinus in fifth- century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and more.

A broad survey of English architecture, from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the 20th century. Concentrating on buildings still visible today, Watkin emphasizes the historic high points of English creative genius. He also provides an expanded chapter on the Modern Movement and more recent styles. schovat popis

Focusing on the principles of new classicism, the book showcases the work of a prominent London architect renowned for his residential and institutional designs. John Simpson emphasizes architecture as a public art form, aiming for durability, functionality, and beauty that resonates with cultural heritage. His diverse portfolio includes projects like the new academic quadrangle at Eton College, the architecture school at Notre Dame, and renovations at Kensington Palace, illustrating his commitment to creating spaces that enhance public life and endure through time.

'See one, do one, teach one' was the basis of David Watkin's training as a surgeon in the 1960s - a hands-off approach that was typical of the time. He would witness an operation and be expected to replicate it.