Architecture: The World's Greatest Buildings Explored and Explained (1997)

by Neil Stevenson

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Explains and illustrates the structure of fifty of the world's greatest buildings through floor plans and cross sections, with each architect's philosophy and the stylistic context of each building.

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Typically arresting visual design from Dorling Kindersley but the subject is rather too big for the approach and the annotations are too succinct to be fully satisfying. (

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Guía visual de pintura y arquitectura by Juan Fernández

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