The architectural interpretation of history / John Gloag
1975, First Edition. London : A. & C. Black. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #449006
ISBN: 0713615591
Physical description; xvii, 348 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; The interpretive quality of architecture -- The tyranny of eternal repetition -- Lost empires -- The classical phase: Persia and Greece -- The classical phase: Roman power -- The death of the gods and the age of faith -- The successor states and the Muslim world -- Prelude to Gothic -- Mediaeval civilisation -- Renaissance and revolution -- The golden age of taste and reason -- Looking backwards -- Shadows of the future. Subjects; Architecture and history. Architecture History.
Price: €28.00