Buildings that changed history / written by Philip Wilkinson.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025Edition: American edition; Revised editionDescription: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593966761
  • 0593966767
Uniform titles:
  • Great buildings
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.9 B78 2025 23/eng/20250714
Partial contents:
2500 BCE-1100 -- 1100-1500 -- 1500-1700 -- 1700-1900 -- 1900 to present.
Summary: Buildings That Changed History gives you an overview of the history of architecture from the ancient world to the present day. It takes you on guided tours of more than 50 masterpieces of every architectural style, from the Great Pyramid of Giza to Chartres Cathedral, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Each building is analyzed visually. CGI cutaway artwork peels away roofs and walls to reveal the bones of the building, and close-up photographs home in on details of style.
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"Previously published as Great Buildings."

Includes index.

2500 BCE-1100 -- 1100-1500 -- 1500-1700 -- 1700-1900 -- 1900 to present.

Buildings That Changed History gives you an overview of the history of architecture from the ancient world to the present day. It takes you on guided tours of more than 50 masterpieces of every architectural style, from the Great Pyramid of Giza to Chartres Cathedral, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Each building is analyzed visually. CGI cutaway artwork peels away roofs and walls to reveal the bones of the building, and close-up photographs home in on details of style.

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