文档介绍：ARTS • ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 29
PALMER HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF
Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of
enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the
Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over
time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs, aesthetic
interests, materials, and techniques. Architecture
The Historical Dictionary of Architecture provides information on architects
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such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo DICTIONARY
Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, as well as OF
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on famous structures such as the Acropolis, the Colosseum, the Forbidden
City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the
World Trade Center. The dictionary examines the development of architecture
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over the centuries through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography,
and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the major architects,
well-known buildings, time periods, styles, building types, and materials in
world architecture.
Allison Lee Palmer is professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma.
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