Patrick Nuttgens Livres

This single volume history of York is written by the nine leading experts in their field and traces the story of this historic town from it beginnings as a Roman garisson to the thriving modern town of the year 2000. Many maps and monochrome pictures make this an attractive book for both the general reader and the more advanced local historian while a full bibliography allows for further study. "As a single volume history of York, it could not be bettered". (York Evening Press).

Throughout history the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story of Architecture is the rigorous account of how men and women of ingenuity and imagination have taken the most elementary of human needs and transformed them into some of the greatest manifestations of the human civilization. Each chapter charts a stage in the development of architecture, dividing the book into natural study units, and the illustrations and plans are closely keyed to the text. For this new edition, the author has revised and updated the entire text and bibliography, and extensively expanded the volume's treatment of the modern and contemporary periods. The book has been completely redesigned with more than 400 illustrations - half of them in colour - and a series of valuable new features including maps, time charts and architects' biographies.

Die einzelnen Phasen der historischen Entwicklung der Architektur von ihren Anfängen in vorchristlicher Zeit bis in die Gegenwart; reich illustriert.