Оглавление

PART I

Unit 1 Civil Engineering	3
Unit 2 Construction Works	7
Unit 3 Some Building Professions	10
Unit 4 Modern Building Materials	13
Unit 5 Silicate Industry	18
Unit 6 Asbestos	21
Unit 7 Air-conditioning	23
Unit 8 Architecture: Its Forms and Functions	26
Unit 9 Bioclimatic Architecture	28
Unit 10 From the History of Building	31

PART II

Egyptian Architecture	34
Great Sphinx	37
Ancient Greek Architecture. The Athenian Acropolis	38
Roman Achitecture	41
Early Cristiane and Bysantine Architecture	44
Hagia Sophia or the Chirch of Holy Withdom	47
Romanesque Architecture	48
Lancet Architecture. Gothic Cathedrals	49
Neo-Gothics	52
The Rebirth of Clasical Art. The Renaissance	53
The Renaissance Style in England	55
Baroque and Rococo. Baroque	57
Baroque and Rococo. Rococo	59
Neoclassicism	61
The Architecture of the Turn of the Century. Art Noveau	63
The Arcitecture of the 20^th Century. Charles Edouard (Jeanneret) Le Corbusier	67
British Architecture	69

PART III

Amsterdam	72
Athen	79
Berlin	93
Bern	99
Budapest	105
Helsinki	114
London	124
Moscow	131
Wien	141

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