文档介绍：Tr avels in the History of
Architecture
ROBERT HARBISON
travels in the history of architecture
by the same author
Eccentric Spaces
Deliberate Regression
Pharaoh’s Dream
The Italian Garden
The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable
The Shell Guide to English Parish Churches
Thirteen Ways
Reflections on Baroque
Tr avels in the History of
Architecture
ROBERT HARBISON
reaktion books
For Kelly and Livia
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First published 2009
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Harbison, Robert
Travels in the history of architecture
1. Architecture – History
I. Title
isbn: 978 1 86189 435 9
Contents
Preface 7
1 Egyptian 13
2 Greek 34
3 Roman 59
4 Byzantine 80
5 Romanesque 95
6 Gothic 112
7 Renaissance 135
8 Mannerism 159
9 Baroque 173
10 Historicism 199
11 Modernism I: Functionalism 217
12 Modernism II: Expressionism, Constructivism
and Deconstruction 236
Afterword 264
Further Reading 269
Acknowledgements 277
Photo Acknowledgements 279
Index 281
Preface
At times I have wanted to write a history with none of the expected examples
in it, containing in fact nothing recognizable at all, but feared this might
lead to something like a garden I remember from childhood, whose maker
allowed into it only plants that everyone else regarded as weeds. This
would bear the true mark of the autodidact (a title I have little right to,
but claim anyway) or the outsider who aspires to overturn every single
convention, just for the sake of motion it makes.
Like many others I h