Architecture 101

A crash course in designing and constructing buildings

Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore the world's greatest structures.

Featuring only the most important ...

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A crash course in designing and constructing buildings

Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore the world's greatest structures.

Featuring only the most important facts, building styles, and architects, you'll enjoy uncovering the remarkable world of architecture with this book. Inside, you'll also find fascinating elements like:

Illustrations of popular building styles, such as Georgian and Greek RevivalDrawings of the essential parts of different buildingsUnique profiles of the most inspirational figures in architectureFrom Norman Foster and Frank Lloyd Wright to the Beauvais Cathedral and the Empire State Building, Architecture 101 is packed with hundreds of entertaining architecture tidbits that you can't get anywhere else!

The Stone Age --
Megalithic construction --
Mesopotamia --
Babylon --
Ancient Egypt --
Mycenaean civilization --
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The Stone Age --
Megalithic construction --
Mesopotamia --
Babylon --
Ancient Egypt --
Mycenaean civilization --
Classical Greece --
The Hellenistic Age --
Hindu temples --
Ancient Rome --
The Roman Empire --
Byzantine churches --
Romanesque --
Islam --
China --
Japanese architecture --
Russian architecture --
Monasteries --
Native people of North America --
Early Gothic --
High Gothic --
The early Renaissance --
The high Renaissance --
Andrea Palladio --
Pre-Colombian America --
Baroque style --
Sir Christopher Wren --
Rococo --
Romanticism and Picturesque --
Neoclassicism --
Neoclassicism in Russia --
Benjamin Henry Latrobe --
Henry Hobson Richardson --
Arts and Crafts --
Art Nouveau --
Beaux Arts --
Gothic revival --
Frank Lloyd Wright --
Louis Henry Sullivan --
Skyscrapers --
Art Deco --
The Bauhaus --
Toward a new architecture --
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
Deconstruction --
Frank Gehry --
Aldo Rossi --
Bridges --
Mid-century modern --
Norman Foster --
Green architecture.
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