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How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles / by Frank E. Wallis.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA2550 .W2 1910
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallis, Frank E. (Frank Edwin), 1862-1929.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Genre:
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- 326 pages : illustrations, plates ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1910.
- Contents:
- Ch. I. the human factors in architecture
- Ch. II. Trade and scientifc factors
- Ch. III. Greek factors
- Ch. IV. The first great transition
- Ch. V. The birth of Christian architecture
- Ch. VI. The second great transition
- Ch. VII. Preparation for the Gothic
- Ch. VIII. The Gothic
- Ch. IX. Flamboyant Gothic
- Ch. X. The third great transition
- Ch. XI. The Renaissance in France
- Ch. XII. Francis I. to Louis XVI.
- Ch. XIII. From Louis XVI. to modern France
- Ch. XIV. Parallel developments in England
- Ch. XV. The Georgian period of England
- Ch. XVI. The Georgian in America
- Ch. XVII. The American decadence
- Ch. XVIII. Progress in other countries
- Ch. XIX. The architect and the future.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum's copy bears inscription on upper flyleaf: "Frederick William Bohlmeyer."
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Frederick Cowan.
- OCLC:
- 1045672
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