Hellenistic architecture;: An introductory study,

by Fyfe

Hardcover, FIRST EDITION, published 1936 by Cambridge University Press. The author Theodore Fyfe was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture, Lecturer and sometime Director of the School of Architecture in the University of Cambridge. One page (contents section) is on a stub. xxxi, 247pp. Numerous b/w drawings, 39 photo plates, 4 fold-out plates (one of which is loose but present.) Includes Glossary, Index. Chapters on The Rise and Development of Hellenistic The Greek Background; The Centres (Asia Minor, Egypt, Cyrene, Syria, Palestine, the Further East, Greece, Sicily). The The Greek Ideal; Bassae and Tagea; Archaic Temples in Asia Minor (The Columnar principle, Processional Way, Sculpture). Hellenistic Asia Minor; Syria; Transjordan; Greece. Tombs and Monuments. The Orders, Scenic and Barock Tendencies; Detail and Decoration; Materials and Construction Technique. The House. Civic Design. Aftermath of Hellenism

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1936