World architecture : a cross-cultural history /

Title:

World architecture : a cross-cultural history /

Author:

Ingersoll, Richard.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Prehistory -- 1.1.Architecture As A Second Nature: Sacred Caves and Primitive Huts -- 1.2.Vernacular Architecture: A Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, and Stones -- 1.3.Megaliths And Stone Circles: Building as Memory -- ch. 2 3000-1500 BCE -- 2.1.Cities Of Mesopotamia: Mud, Gods, and Urbanism -- 2.2.Old Kingdom Egypt: Architecture for the Afterlife -- 2.3.The Indus Valley: Cities without Monuments -- ch. 3 1500--750 BCE -- 3.1.The Aegean In The Bronze Age: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls -- 3.2.New Kingdom Egypt: Axial Temples and Colossal Statues -- 3.3.Biblical Jerusalem: Architecture and Memory -- ch. 4 700---200 BCE -- 4.1.Southwest Asia and Achaemenid Persia: A Cycle of Empires -- 4.2.The Greek City-State: Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora -- 4.3.Mauryan India: Emblems of Peace in Stone -- ch. 5 200 BCE---300 CE -- 5.1.Ancient Rome: Governing through Architecture --

Online access:

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Library holdings:

Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
720.9 .I54 2013 – Available