De westerse architectuur

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Architecture

ISBN: 9789058750020
Third edition, 2008
SUN architecture
Hardcover, 704 pages
19,5 x 24,5 cm
illustrated
2001
€51,42 (excl. VAT)

De westerse architectuur

Een geschiedenis

David Watkin

Professor David Watkin of Cambridge University sees the history of architecture as a history of regeneration and renaissance. The past is not a graveyard of successive architectural styles. On the contrary, architectural history is a testament to the longevity, beauty and vitality of the classic architectural language. Watkin focuses on the aesthetic continuum in which antiquity and baroque, Palladio and Dudok, Gothic, Art Nouveau and the modernists all played a part in the realisation of beauty. Watkin’s history of Western architecture is a manual used widely by institutions of learning and a reference work for anyone interested in the subject.

"Watkin’s compelling descriptions and carefully chosen visual material make De westerse architectuur one of the most readable and enthralling histories of architecture published in decades."

- Caroline van Eck, Trouw

Please note: This is the Dutch edition of this book.