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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Knowing and Appreciating Architecture | |
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| Knowing When a Building Is Just a Building and When It's Architecture | |
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| The Beauty of Form Meets Function | |
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| Why Is Architecture Important? | |
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| What Makes Architecture Good? | |
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| How to Spot Good Architecture | |
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| Where Can You See Architecture? | |
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| If You Do Go ... | |
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| How to Look at a Building | |
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| Space: Solids and Voids | |
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| Scale and Proportion: Size Matters | |
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| Weight and Mass: It Ain't Heavy, It Just Looks That Way | |
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| The Elements of Design | |
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| Building Your Architectural Vocabulary | |
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| Defining Architectural Style | |
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| Essential Elements of Architecture | |
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| Nuts and Bolts: Looking at How Architecture Is Designed and Built | |
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| How Buildings Are Born | |
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| In the Beginning: The Program | |
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| Different Building Types and the Evolution of Style | |
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| Using the Past to Design the Future | |
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| Just What Do Architects Do, Anyway? | |
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| The Roles They Are A-Changin' | |
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| How Architects Get to Be Architects | |
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| What Architects Really Do from 9 to 5 | |
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| Okay, Now Do It Like I Drew It | |
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| A Simple Structure: How Buildings Stand Up | |
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| May the Force Be with It: Carrying the Loads | |
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| Structural Forces: How a Building Gets Stressed | |
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| Posts and Lintels: Trabeated Systems | |
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| Watch Those Curves: Arcuated Systems | |
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| New Shapes for Modern Structures | |
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| Western Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures | |
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| Gimme Shelter: Prehistoric Structures and the Ancient World | |
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| From Tipis to Tombs: Prehistoric Architecture | |
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| Ancient Pyramids: Stairways to Heaven | |
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| Mythology Comes to Life: The Aegean | |
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| Acropolis Now: Classical Greece and Rome | |
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| The Greeks: Pursuit of Perfection | |
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| The Etruscans: Prelude to Rome | |
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| The Romans: Structural Revolution | |
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| Domes, Arches, and Vaults, Oh My: Byzantine and Medieval Architecture | |
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| Early Christian Churches | |
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| Aspiring to New Heights: Byzantine Churches | |
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| The Middle Ages: Not as Dark as You Think | |
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| Roman Glory Lives On: Romanesque Churches | |
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| The Super Church: Gothic Cathedrals | |
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| Beauty Meets Mathematics and Drama: From Renaissance to Rococo | |
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| The Renaissance: A Classical Revival with Some Mathematical Stuff | |
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| Bridges to the Baroque: Mannerism | |
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| Here Come the Drama Kings: The Baroque | |
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| Early Funhouses: The Rococo | |
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| Revivals Everywhere: The Classical and Gothic Are New Again | |
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| Rage Against the Baroque: Classical Revivals | |
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| Playing on Your Emotions: Romanticism | |
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| Coming Full Circle: Beaux-Arts Eclecticism | |
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| Here Comes the Industrial Age: Perfab Is Here to Stay | |
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| Mass Production Begins: Materials Get a Revamp | |
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| Managing the Forces: Enter the Engineer | |
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| Flying High and Close to the Sun: Skyscrapers! | |
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| Buildings Go Up, the Sky Falls Down: The First Skyscrapers | |
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| Chicago's Steel Skeletons | |
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| A Skyscraper State of Mind: Rise of the New York Skyline | |
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| More Recent Skyscapers | |
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| Mother Nature versus the Machines: Modern Styles | |
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| All You Need Is Art: Arts and Crafts for Everyday People | |
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| A Modern Style Takes Root: Art Nouveau and Its Architects | |
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| Mother Nature's Out the Door: More "isms" and Other Styles | |
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| Modernism Gets Real: The International Style | |
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| The Only Constant Is Change: From Modern Purism to Postmodern Pluralism | |
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| Modernism Gets a Makeover by Late Modern Masters | |
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| Lotsa Concrete, Folks: The New Brutalism Branch of Modernism | |
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| The Modernism Backlash: Postmodernism and the Past to the Rescue | |
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| Modernism with a Postmodernist Twist | |
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| New Directions for a New Millennium | |
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| Eastern Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures | |
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| China and Japan: Traditions in Wood | |
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| Chinese Architecture: The Basics | |
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| Japanese Architecture: Chinese Refinements | |
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| More Than the Taj Mahal: Architecture in India | |
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| Early Temples and Shrines | |
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| India's Influence on Southeast Asia | |
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| The Islamic Golden Age, Mughal Style | |
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| Spoils of the British Empire: West Meets East | |
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| Contemporary Architecture in India | |
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| The Islamic World | |
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| Bow and Pray to Mecca | |
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| Royal Calling Cards: Middle Eastern Mosques | |
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| Mosques for All Seasons: African Mosques | |
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| The Moors Create Their Own Style in Spain | |
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| Arranging the Present and Saving the Past | |
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| Understanding Urban Design | |
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| The First Cities of Humankind | |
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| Ancient Greek and Roman Town Order: Hooked on a Classic | |
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| Medieval Towns: Defense and Commerce | |
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| The Ideal Cities of the Renaissance | |
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| Royal Bombast and Power: Baroque Grand Plans | |
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| Cities in the Age of Enlightenment | |
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| American Cities: Growing on the Grid | |
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| Staying Connected: Urban Growth Explosion | |
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| Modern Cities of Tomorrow: The 'Burbs | |
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| Postwar Plans: From Sprawl to Smart Growth | |
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| Historic Preservation: Saving the Past for the Future | |
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| Just How Far Should It Go? | |
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| The Gold Standards of Architectural Rescue | |
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| The Upside of Preservation | |
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| Patriotism Saves the Day (And a Few Buildings, Too!) | |
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| The Face of Preservation Today | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| The Ten Most Fascinating Architects Working Today | |
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| Tadao Ando | |
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| Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio | |
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| Frank Gehry | |
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| Zaha Hadid | |
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| Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron | |
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| Rem Koolhaas | |
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| Daniel Libeskind | |
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| Jean Nouvel | |
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| Renzo Piano | |
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| Antoine Predock | |
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| Ten Architectural Masterpieces | |
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| The Parthenon | |
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| The Pantheon | |
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| Chartres Cathedral | |
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| Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio | |
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| Katsura Palace | |
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| San Ivo della Sapienza | |
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| Altes Museum | |
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| Thomas Crane Library | |
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| Villa Savoye | |
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| Seagram Building | |
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| Ten Amazing Items of Trivia That'll Impress All Your Friends! | |
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| One of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World Is Still Around! | |
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| French Gothic Cathedral Collapses! | |
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| World's Largest Art Gallery Is Russian! | |
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| Disney Steals Design from Bavarian Castle! | |
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| Women Join All-Male Architecture Profession! | |
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| Architect Murdered by Jealous Husband! | |
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| Hotel Survives Worst Japanese Earthquake of the Twentieth Century! | |
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| New York City Home to the World's Largest Gothic Cathedral! | |
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| Famous Architect Disqualified for Using the Wrong Ink! | |
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| Skyscraper Resembles Chippendale Furniture! | |
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| The Top Ten Skyscrapers | |
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| Chrysler Building: Art Deco Fantasy | |
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| Empire State Building: New York's Highest | |
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| Lever House: Cleaning Up the Avenue | |
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| John Hancock Center: "Big John" | |
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| Sears Tower: Office in a Tube | |
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| Boston's Hancock Tower: Blowing in the Wind | |
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| Hong Kong Shanghai Bank: High-Tech Beauty | |
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| Petronas Towers: The World's Tallest | |
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| World Trade Towers: An Icon Destroyed | |
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| Index | |