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by: Vincent Scully  List Price: $24.95 Price: $14.76 You Save: $10.19 (41%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780312097424 ISBN: 0312097425 Label: St Martins Pr Manufacturer: St Martins Pr Number Of Pages: 388 Publication Date: 1993-08 Publisher: St Martins Pr Studio: St Martins Pr Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Architecture and its MeaningThis book is an obvious labor of love. Exapnding on his thesis that man attempts to recreate the nature's forms - particularly mountains - we are given a tour of the ages. Starting with earlier (rather than primitive) civilizations, he shows how Mayans, Greeks, Egyptians and Aztecs attempted to replicate the mountains. This almost obsessive need to reach to the heavens is evident in our city skyscrapers. Of course there was a religious, animist aspect to all this and indeed, one can ... Read More Rating: - dazzling essays on meanings of architecture thru the agesThis is an absolutely fascinating book on what architecture meant and what its builders were trying to accomplish from the beginnings of advanced civilisations (in Mesopotamia and pre-Columbian America) through the innovations of the Greeks, into the symbolism of the Middle Ages and finally modern industrial societies. Throughout, the approach is eclectic and ranges over an unusually wide range of subjects, including anthropology and psychology, history, technical engineering, and political science. ... Read More Rating:  - Not natural and not man madeAnother chronological review of construction starting with Greece, Rome, heavily slanted towards the French and Italian Renaissance, the text deals very little or nothing with architecture, and drags around on a grandiose egocentric and anthropocentric style and view of the "world" that we mere mortals are supposed to regard as marvelous, the text is dull, boring, pretentious and selserving, with very few architectonic layouts and sections, more of an historical account of construction, forts, wars, churches, ... Read More 
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