Publisher's Synopsis
A guide to the architecture of the late-19th and the 20th century. It features a dictionary of names and concepts; 23 double pages of architectural styles, schools and movements from 1870 to the end of the 20th century; 50 key architectural projects illustrated with photographs and drawings and accompanied by commentary; parallel chronologies which place architectural developments in the context of world events; and an overview of architectural history from antiquity to the present.