Classical Architecture : a Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style / Robert Adam ; Illustrations by Derek Brentnall

by Robert Adam

Hardcover, cloth cover with dust jacket. Fully illustrated, great reference book, comprehensive over view of classical architecture.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Reference

Hardcover

First published November 12, 1990

About the author

Robert Adam is an architect and author, a major figure in traditional and classical architecture.

Not to be confused with the earlier Robert Adam, a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer of the 1700s.

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Reviews

[Sula]

This book gives a really good overview of classical architecture, and is presented in a way that makes it approachable even if you are not a student or an architect yourself. Each double page spread covers a subsection: one a page of text, the other with drawings and diagrams relating to the text.

[Elham]

this book is a general review on classicism. each page has a discrete subject with picture. but its not very rich in theories.