Architecture Through the Ages |
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Як CONTENTS Foreword | xxxv |
INTRODUCTORY | 1 |
PRIMITIVE ARCHITECTURE | 3 |
Copyright | |
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arcades arch architect architecture Asia Assyrian Baroque beams beauty became brick builders building built Byzantine carved CATHEDRAL central century chapel characteristic church classic clerestory colonnaded columns construction cornice court Cretan culture curved decorative detail developed dome earlier early Egypt Egyptian elaborate elements Empire engaged columns England English enormous entablature entrance Ernest Nash Etruscan exterior floor forms French front garden Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hall Hittite houses ideals influence interior Ionic orders Italian Italy Knossos later lavish luxury magnificent masonry Mediterranean moldings monumental Mycenae nave neolithic ornament painted palace pediment perhaps period Persian Pompeii porch primitive pyramid rectangular Renaissance rich Rococo Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Rome roof rooms sculpture shrines side simple skill sometimes space square stone structural style Tel el Amarna temples tombs towers town tradition tremendous usually valley vault walls whole wooden