History of the Built Environment I (ID 108)

Includes plans, color photographs, and black-and-white line drawings. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Color photographs of the art and architecture of Spanish missions in Baja California. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the history of the plaza in Mexican cities, from the Mesoamerican concept of space and types of open spaces through Spanish colonial towns to the present day. Color photographs and plans. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Includes color photographs and black-and-white line drawings. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Color photographs of art, decorative arts, and architecture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Features Spanish art and architecture from 1492 to 1659, with color photographs

Features architecture and architectural ornamentation, with color photographs, floor plans and line drawings

Surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations―Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec―as well as those of their less-well-known contemporaries, including pyramids and palaces, jades, brightly colored paintings, and more.

Provides an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then surveys the historical development of the builder's art in each of the region's cultural areas.

Covers Romanesque art and architecture throughout Europe, with color photographs and floor plans