Architecture [antikvár]

Technical Hoxe Here you will find innovations, new techniques, and new materials; all the things that allow the architect to defy the constraints of gravity, finance and, occasionally, sanity. Introduction Many hislories ofarclutecliire have atteinpled /() explain !vhy bnildings look the way they do. Sonie are frorks of detection^ unravelhng the secrets of the past. Many are written as 'stories' with a begifming^ a niiddle and an end somewhere in Iwenlielh-centnn' /nodernism. This hook is less like an explanation and more like a description - a snrvey of the past - with no plot and no storyline, it uses conventional categories and slylistic classifications that can be found in histories of art lo sort the architects and various buildings roughly chronological order. Rather them including vernacular or traditional buildings., it is The stepped pyramid of Zoser at Saqqara in Eygpt. The Erectheion, (421-406 BC), on the Acropolis in Athens