Description
Everything you wish to have to understand in regards to the historical past of Structure is integrated on this complete guided excursion. Creator Carol Strickland brings us architectural wonders of layout from the Stone Age to the Area Age – together with Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower and extra. With 192 illustrated pages peppered with informative sidebars and biographical anecdotes from Brunelleschi to Frank Lloyd Wright, this interesting crash route covers the whole thing you wish to have to understand – from cultural historical past to architectural breakthroughs—in a snappy-to-evaluation, simple-to-maintain layout.
Overlaying all bases, The Annotated Arch explores the traditional global, the Center A while, 18th and nineteenth centuries, and twentieth century and modernism.
“Structure is a lot more than the sum of those singular portions. It’s an artwork of interdependence, the place separate components have interaction with the time, position, fabrics, generation, financial system, and particular person genius. Goethe referred to as Structure ‘frozen song.’ Sounding the entire notes from top to low at the scale of human invention, Structure preserves the most efficient-beloved tunes of civilization.” —Creator Carol Strickland
