Les styles en architecture - Guide visuel: Guide visuel

by Owen Hopkins

Si vous vous etes deja demande comment reconnaitre au premier coup d'oeil le style d'un batiment ou ce qui distingue le gothique rayonnant du gothique flamboyant, ce guide visuel est fait pour vous.
Avec pres de 300 photos, il dresse un panorama des grandes periodes de l'architecture et de leurs styles. Chacun d'eux est defini en fonction de specificites communes (formelles, geographiques, culturelles ou ideologiques) puis identifie grace a six caracteristiques cles (un certain type de fenetre ou de moulure decorative, un choix specifique de materiaux...), toutes illustrees par un edifice emblematique.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Art, Reference

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Erin Myler · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wild hair that I actually followed through on for once! This was way more enjoyable than expected for a random pick for architecture info. I’ve never seen the word “sumptuous” used more in a single body of work. I enjoyed how this hit on the symbiosis between architecture and history, philosophy, economy, religion, culture, art movements, etc. Everything influences everything else, even if it’s anti. This covered almost exclusively Western/European styles, but that’s almost everything historical I guess. HERE ARE MY FAVORITE ARCHITECTURAL STYLES RANKED:

1) High Gothic. It had to be at the top of the list. Ultimate aura. (You know it’s iconic if it had a revival.)
2) Ancient/Visionary Sublime. Didn’t know this existed, and I appreciate the fact that it’s a wholly unrealistic/unbuildable concept.
3) Art Deco. They were absolutely cooking during this time period.
4) High-Tech. Putting the insides of the building on the outside??! Incredible. I never knew of this. More on the list for the concept rather than the aesthetics.
5) Eco-architecture. Sustainability!! :D

Honorable mention: Brutalism, as it’s the movement that had me check this out from the library in the first place. Also historically interesting.

“Capitalism's continual process of creative destruction ensures some buildings die so others may be born.”

[Mebarka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Totally helpful ,a variety of architectural styles from classical to modern architecture with their characteritics point by point and the best is that every characteristic is accompannied with an illustration ,exactly what i've been looking for.

I think the french version's cover is much better .

[Berna Labourdette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es una guía excelente para poder tener a mano las distintas características de los estilos arquitectónicos y los edificios principales o más representativos de cada uno. Está escrito para alguien que no sabe mucho de arquitectura, es fácil de entender y lo mejor es que dan ganas de aprender mucho más.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid, general introduction to Architecture. I would agree with some other reviewers on here that it would have benefitted with more images and with language that is less obtuse - some sentences simply did not mean anything to me. Perhaps that speaks more about my own ignorance.

[Tracee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the complexity of the book, LOVE the pictures and styles chosen. My huge complaint is the pictures are only thumbnail size. I would love to see these buildings on a larger scale

[P · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books starts with classical architecture, and ends with Modernism and After Modernism.

The Hellenistic style, with its vertical columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and horizontal beams on top of those columns (trabeated system), was easy enough to understand. The Roman style largely adopted elements from the Hellenistic style, but with important changes such as pseudoperipetal arrangement, round arches and domes. Romanesque, Byzantine, Renaissance & Mannerism (R&M) and Gothic styles were slightly difficult and I understood only vault styles (barrel, rib, sexpartite) and elements of three-storey and four-storey bays (arcade, gallery, triforium and clerestory). R&M seemed particularly complex to me because it is classical architecture with deviations and those deviations may be subtle in some cases (see Hardwick Hall). Things got even more complicated because the same style developed differently in different countries and on top of that, individual architects added their own style to it. So, it is easy to identify Italian and Spanish Baroque - look for heavy, ornamental designs and curving facades (see Pietro da Cortona) - but if the building has a dome and classical Greek or Roman-style columns, then it's French Baroque. English Baroque, characterised by large keystones (look at the windows of Chatsworth House), again developed differently and is quite plain (see Blenheim House) by comparison. Neoclassicism followed Baroque and some of the styles (Sublime and Picturesque) are, well, odd. After Neoclassicism came Eclecticism, which is also odd. It seemed like a mish-mash of all preceding styles. I skipped Modernism and After Modernism because those styles don't appeal to me.

This is a good book for a beginner but it has one major flaw - there are no arrows to show the various elements of a style. Also, some sentences made very little sense to me, for example: "...Upper Belvedere in Vienna is a stunning example, had long ranges articulated with the giant order and a recessed frontispiece..." Nevertheless, I learnt a lot.

On an unrelated note, I noticed that the Ashton Memorial in Lancaster, England exceedingly resembles St. Louis des Invalides in Paris, France.

[Kelly K · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's no way I'm gonna remember all of this but at least I feel more familiar with different styles of architecture in general. Cleveland is basically an art deco haven. I really wish we had more variety.

[David Bisset · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good summary of the history of architecture. Pictures are rather small, and the classification of more recent stylistic developments is somewhat arcane. Earlier styles are, however, are dealt with cogently.

[Martina_H · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vypadá to jako přehledná publikace zahrnující světovou arch. od starého řecka po současnost, včetně moderny. Fotka, krátký popis, spousta hesel. Super před spaním.

Fotky by mohly být lepší.

[Ali Shwan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with small important brief for every architectural styles all over the world and liked the pictures with paragraphs talking about the style

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[Rares Cozma · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a friend.

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reference book