Understanding Modern Architecture

Arts & Photography

Nuttgens, Patrick

Architecture

Unwin Hyman

Fully updated, here is the classic comprehensive pocket guide to global architectural styles throughout history, from the first civilizations to today.
Organized chronologically, The Complete Architecture Handbook covers all established historical styles and explores regional developments throughout the centuries. Illustrated with clear, detailed plans, sections, and drawings, it is a remarkably useful and portable resource for students, architects, and tourists.

The Complete Architecture Handbook: From the First Civilizations to the Present Day

Weston, Richard

Reference

Harper

Traces the history of world architecture from temples in ancient Egypt and Peru to skyscrapers in modern New York, and explains architectural terms

The Story of Architecture

PRENTICE/HALL

Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story of Architecture is the account of how men and women of ingenuity and imagination have taken the most elementary of human needs and transformed them into some of the greatest manifestations of the human civilisation.

The story of architecture

York: The continuing city

FABER

Describes and illustrates architectural styles around the world from ancient times to the present

Simon and Schuster's Pocket Guide to Architecture

Simon&Schuster

Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story of Architecture is the account of how men and women of ingenuity and imagination have taken the most elementary of human needs and transformed them into some of the greatest manifestations of the human civilisation.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Phaidon Press

This work is a general introduction to architecture told through a narrative sequence of 21 chapters, each charting a stage in the devlopment of architecture. These chapters divide the text into natural study units covering the entire world and the whole of human architectural history. Without using technical language, Patrick Nuttgens draws on his own architectural experience to enable the reader to enter the mind of the architects - trying always to answer the simple question such as: "Why is it like that ?"

This work is a general introduction to architecture told through a narrative sequence of 21 chapters, each charting a stage in the devlopment of architecture. These chapters divide the text into natural study units covering the entire world and the whole of human architectural history.

Histoire de l'architecture

PHAIDON FRANCE

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Books by Nuttgens, Patrick

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Understanding Modern Architecture

The Complete Architecture Handbook: From the First Civilizations to the Present Day

The Story of Architecture

The story of architecture

York: The continuing city

Simon and Schuster's Pocket Guide to Architecture

The Story of Architecture

The Story of Architecture

The Story of Architecture

Histoire de l'architecture