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　　In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces

the history of western architecture from the earliest times in

Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first

century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the

Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity

between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and

that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York.

Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth

edition has been expanded to bring the story of western

architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter

on twenty-first century developments, including computers and

architecture, and sustainability and the environment.

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　　David Watkin is Emeritus Professor of the History of

Architecture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of

Peterhouse. He has written many books, among them: Morality and

Architecture Revisited and Sir John Soane (1996), and is a leading

authority on Classicism and its successive renewals in

architecture.

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In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. Authoritative, comprehensive and highly illustrated, this fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments, including computers and architecture, and sustainability and the environment.