A World History of Architecture

A magnificently illustrated guide to the global history of architecture-updated to include the non-western world and works from women

The Second Edition of this historical architectural guide gives you a deeper knowledge and wider perspective of traditions in architecture throughout the world-from prehistoric through modern structures. Extensively and beautifully illustrated, the book includes photos, plans, scales for world-famous structures such as the Parthenon, Versailles, the Brooklyn Bridge, and many others. 608 pp.

• Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Architecture
• Chapter 3. The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia
• Chapter 4. Traditional Architecture of China and Japan
• Chapter 5. The Roman World
• Chapter 6. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
• Chapter 7. Islamic Architecture
• Chapter 8. Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture
• Chapter 9. Gothic Architecture
• Chapter 10. Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas
• Chapter 11. Renaissance Architecture
• Chapter 12. Baroque Architecture
• Chapter 13. The Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 14. Nineteenth Century Developments
• Chapter 15. The Twentieth Century and Modernism
• Chapter 16. Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century