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TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Martin Conway
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Andrew Ballantyne
ARCHITECTURE
A Very Short Introduction
To Di Leitch
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
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ISBN 13: 978–0–19–280179–1
ISBN 10: 0–19–280179–1
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Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
1 Buildings have meaning
2 Growth of the Western tradition
3 How buildings become great
Timeline
Glossary
Further reading
Index
List of illustrations
1 AT&T Building, New York (1978–80); architect: Philip Johnson (born 1906)
© T. Brubaker/Edifice
2 Traditional cottage, uncertain date, but pre-20th century; no architect
Hulton Archive
3 Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England (1815–21); architect: John Nash (1752–1835)
© A. F. Kersting
4 Great Pyramid of Khufu, Giza, near Cairo, Egypt (2723–2563 BC); architect: unknown
© Richard T. Nowitz/Corbis
5 Palace of Westminster, London, England (1836–68); architect: Sir