Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome

by Christopher Tadgell

This is the first in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world. It describes the origins of the Classical tradition in the mountain temples of Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. The story continues with the temples, theatres, palaces and council chambers of ancient Greece and Rome, and finishes with the adoption of Classical models to house the new institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138038830
• ISBN13: 9781138038837
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 858 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.1" x 8.2"