TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fletcher, Banister,
AU  - Cruickshank, Dan.
TI  - Sir Banister Fletcher's a history of architecture
SN  - 750622679
AV  - NA200 .F63 1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford ;;Boston
PB  - Architectural Press
KW  - Architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 1671-1712) and index; Part 1 includes the architecture of Greece and its empire as well as that of Egypt and the Ancient Near East.Part 2 shows the the early European settlements before the beginnings of significant architectural development in Cnetral Italy ,the Roamn Ascendancy and the growth of the Roman empire throughout europe & The Mediterranean.Part 3 focuses on the architecture of Islam .Part 4 includes all the significant cultures which predated the earliest European settlements worldwide,including Africa and the Americas as well as feudal China and Japan.Part 5 covers Renaissance in Europe,includes also the post Renaissance period,industrial architecture ,the intorduction of new building techniques and the fin de siecle transitional style and links to the ModernMovement in architecture.Part 6 extends the Renaissance and post-Renaissance coverage during the period of European colonial dominance worldwide.Part 7 twentieth -century architecture is covered in anumber of separate chapters ,classified by country or region
N2  - Includes more coverage of architecture from non European regions and contains more information on the vernacular buildings and engineered steructures and work structures and works by architects/engineers such as bridges and fortifications.There is also an emphasis on the urban design
ER  -