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Book Review: Architecture - A Synoptic Vision
archidose.blogspot.com - 12/14/2008
Book Review: Architecture - A Synoptic Vision
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Architecture - A Synoptic Vision: A Prospectus of Developments from 1900 to Today (2008) by Adrian Meyer, Susanne Kuhlbrodt & Beat Aeberhard Springer Paperback, 22 pages + poster syn·op·tic : affording a general view of a whole . pro·spec·tus : a preliminary printed statement that ...

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Architecture a Synoptic Vision: A Prospectus of Developments from 1900 to Today
Archinect.com Feed — Read John Hill's review of this book at Archidose. Book description... There are numerous reference works on the development of architecture in the twentieth century, but none of them presents the networklike connections and effects of those developments with the astonishing concision of Architecture in the 20th Century – A Synopsis. In an overview diagram, the various different movements, together with their associated major figures and structures, are visually situated in their historical and chronological context. World-historical events, technological developments, ...

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