Travels in the History of Architecture

by Robert Harbison

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In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison provides an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. The book begins its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the present day. Each chapter of this dynamic and approachable volume focuses on a movement in show more architectural history, including Byzantine, Baroque, Mannerism, Historicism, Functionali show less

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This is perhaps the best book on the history of architecture I have read. Contrary to the sole but double posted review, Harbison's text is concise and insightful. The pictures are indeed small and B&W but they clearly illustrate the points he makes in the text. If the pictures had been large and in color, this would be a coffee table book that people might leaf through, but few would read.

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Robert Harbison is Professor of architecture at London Metropolitan University. His many books include Eccentric Spaces, The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable, and Reflections on Baroque.

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Genres
Art & Design, Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
720.9Arts & recreationArchitectureArchitectureHistory, geographic treatment, biography
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NA200 .H37Fine Arts2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticismArchitectureHistory
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English
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