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Classical Architecture:
An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select
Glossary of Terms
This beautifully illustrated book is concerned with the fundamental
principles and various aspects of Classical Architecture, including
a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary in
itself. The author describes in clear, straightforward, jargon-free
language the origins of Classical Architecture in Greek and Roman
Antiquity, and outlines its continuous development, through its
various manifestations during the Renaissance, its transformations
in Baroque and Rococo phases, its re-emergence in eighteenth-,
nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Neo-Classicism, and its survival
into modern times. The text and illustrations celebrate the richness
of the Classical architectural vocabulary, grammar, and language,
and demonstrate the enormous range of themes and motifs embraced
by the subject.
UK & Europe: Classical Architecture. An Introduction
to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms
(London: Batsford, an imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd 2001).
ISBN -13: 9780713486841 (pbk.)
North America: Classical Architecture. An Introduction to
its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms
(New York: W.W Norton & Company Inc., 2003).
ISBN: 9780393731194 (pbk.)
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Reviews 'Enjoyable and well-written, Curl's
book provides the reader with...an inclusive perspective'
The Classicist
' The clearest account of the history and use of the language
which has produced most of the great masterpieces of Western Architecture.
It should be in every architect's library'
The Architectural Review
'an invaluable companion to the study of the subject...illustrated...in
a most informative manner...The author's passion for his subject
is evident'
The Literary Review
'...well-illustrated and thorough'
The Architects' Journal
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