The idea of order : the circular archetype in prehistoric Europe /
"Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings - whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric Europe. Why did so many people build circular monuments? Why did they choose to live in circular houses...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Times and Spaces. The Circular Ruins ; Conceptions and Perceptions ; Life and Art.
- Part Two: Circular Structures in a Circular World. Houses into Tombs ; Turning to Stone ; The Enormous Room.
- Part Three: Circular Structures in a Rectilinear World. Significant Forms ; The Atrraction of Opposites ; The New Order.
- Summing Up. From Centre to Circumference.