Subject(s): Middle East -- History -- 1517-
Review: "For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement - the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of
Subject(s): Architecture -- History -- To 1868 -- Japan
Contents:Machine generated contents note: Horyuji Temple and its symbol, The Pagoda -- The great eighth-Century temples -- Architecture of the pure land sect -- New medieval forms: The Great Buddha style -- New medieval forms: The Zen style -- Details of the Great Buddha style -- Deta
Subject(s): Environmental psychology -- History
Contents:The pursuit of understanding : an intellectual history / Harold M. Proshansky -- A fish who studies water / Robert Sommer -- Settings of a professional lifetime / Roger G. Barker -- Science and the failure of architecture : an intellectual history / Amos Rapoport -- From the pragmati
Summary: Traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes that "traditional architecture has re-established itself as a solution to the many problems presented by new needs and new materials ... the classical language of arc
