xvi, 608 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Beginnings Of Architecture -- Prehistoric Settlements and Megalith Constructions -- Eastern Europe -- Western Europe -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Sumerians, Akkadians, and Neo-Sumerians -- Essay: The Sumerian View of the World -- Babylonians, Hittites, and Ass...

Contents note continued: ch. 3 The Architecture Of Ancient India And Southeast Asia -- Religions of India -- Early Buddhist Shrines -- Essay: Bamiyan and the Colossal Buddha -- Hindu Temples -- Early Buildings -- Later Temples -- Angkor Wat -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 4 The Tradi...

Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 6 Early Christian And Byzantine Architecture -- Early Christian Basilicas -- Martyria, Baptisteries, and Mausolea -- Essay: Eusebius and Constantine -- Byzantine Basilicas and Domed Basilicas -- Centrally Planned Byzantine Churche...

Contents note continued: Essay: The Mystic Mill from Vezelay -- Aquitaine and Provence -- Cistercian Monasteries -- Norman Architecture -- Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 9 Gothic Architecture -- Early Gothic -- The Abbey Church of St. Denis -- Early Gothic Cathedrals -- High Gothic --...

Contents note continued: Tribes of the Southwest -- Mexico and Central America -- The Olmecs of the Eastern Mexican Coast -- Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico -- The Zapotecs and Mixtecs at Monte Alban, Oaxaca -- The Maya -- Tikal -- Copan and Palenque -- Uxmal and Chichen-Itza -- The Toltecs in t...

Contents note continued: The Palazzo Rucellai, Florence -- Churches in Rimini, Florence, and Mantua -- The Ideal City -- Essay: Pius's Resolutions -- The Spread of the Renaissance -- Urbino -- Milan -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Donato Bramante -- The Tempietto, Rome -- St. Peter's, Rome -- The Belvedere...

Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 12 Baroque Architecture -- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Il Gesu, Rome -- Pope Sixtus V and the Replanning of Rome -- St. Peter's -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- The Completion of St. Peter's -- S. Andrea al Quirinale, Rome...

Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 13 Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, And The Rococo -- The Rococo -- The English Neo-Palladians -- Essay: The Enlightenment and the Abbe Laugier's Primitive Hut -- The Return to Antiquity -- The Style Created by Robert Adam -- William...

Contents note continued: The Challenge of the Industrial Revolution -- Developments in Steel -- Iron and Glass Greenhouse Designs -- Joseph Paxton and the Crystal Palace -- Essay: The Coming of the Railroad -- Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Rational Design -- Henri Labrouste and His Library Desi...

Contents note continued: Conclusions About Architectural Ideas -- ch. 15 The Twentieth Century And Modernism -- The Idea of a Modern Architecture -- The War of Words -- Adolf Loos -- Influence of Loos's Lectures and Publications -- The Raumplan and Loos's Buildings -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Developin...

Contents note continued: Later Work of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Broadacre City -- Fallingwater -- The Guggenheim Museum and Taliesin West -- Wrightian Connections -- Later Work of Le Corbusier -- Ronchamp and Ste. Marie-de-la-Tourette -- Chandigarh -- Diaspora and the Later Work of Mies Van der Rohe --...

Contents note continued: Jørn Utzon -- Ove Arup -- The Boston City Hall -- Justus Dahinden -- Frank Gehry -- Richard Meier -- Antoine Predock -- Rafael Moneo -- Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture -- Zaha Hadid -- Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Modern Materials a...