Customer Review: This book tells the story of important buildings built since a long time ago, even bridges! Lots of nice pictures and drawings, especially of the real important artsy buildings built after WWII. You can learn alot about the history of world culture and architecture just by looking at the pictures!... more info
Customer Review: From back cover: "With 'The Beginnings of Architecture,' Giedion ...relates the great monuments that greet us at the outset with the great spaces of the Aurignacian caves and with the ancient cult of the animal treated as a sacred object. One of his most original institutions is that 'the... more info
Customer Review: Everything you need to know about Walter Gropius and his architecture on 250 pages, and in 235 photos and 88 linear drawings - all in black-and-white. It is a reprint of 1954 book by the Reinhold Publishing Corp. - very meticulous and detailed - but very accessible for all fans of architecture. A... more info
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