Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
by Vincent Scully
A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (32)
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A comprehensive study of architecture through the ages and it's relationship to the natural world.Tags
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Scully’s work is a great trip through history which explores the social situations of buildings and their architects. It is a great read and goes quickly while still being very informative.
Natural and man-made architecture
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31+ Works 1,945 Members
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Abbot Suger; Louis XIV, 1638-1715; Nicolas Fouquet; Andre Le Notre; Thomas Jefferson; Andrea Palladio (show all 11); Sebastien Vauban; Le Corbusier; Jules Hardouin-Mansart; Eugene Viollet-le-Duc; Louis Le Vau
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- Giza, Egypt; Thebes, Egypt; Mycenae, Argolis, Greece; Knossos, Crete, Greece; Paestum, Campania, Italy; Delphi, Greece (show all 25); Athens, Greece; Olympia, Greece; Constantinople, Turkey; Rome, Italy; Paris, Île-de-France, France; Vézelay, Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; Reims, Marne, Grand-Est, France; Noyon, Hauts-de-France, France; Florence, Tuscany, Italy; Assisi, Umbria, Italy; Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France; Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France; Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France; Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; Washington, D.C., USA; Chantillly, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France; Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; New York, New York, USA; Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
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