Architecture: Crash Course Series

Books in this series make fine supplements to textbooks for students taking college humanities courses. They're also good guides for museum-goers & art lovers. Each Crash Course volume contains hundreds of photos & illustrations, most of them in color. This volume, with approximately 240 illustrations, is a historical survey of architectural achievements throughout history. It encompasses the pyramids & temples of ancient Egypt, Greek temples, the Roman development of the arch, Gothic cathedrals, the Italian Renaissance palazzo, Vertical Gothic masterpieces in England, great neo-classical architects including Christopher Wren, the Greek Revival in American design, English classicism & its impact on today's postmodern architecture, & twentieth-century innovators including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, & others.Hocker, Christopher is the author of 'Architecture: Crash Course Series' with ISBN 9780764109089 and ISBN 0764109081.