A Global History of Architecture

by Francis D. Ching; Mark M. Jarzombek; Vikramaditya Prakash

• ISBN13: 9780471268925
• ISBN10: 0471268925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

From ancient Chinese civilization to the postmodern world Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by rich drawings from the renowned Frank Ching as well as brilliant photographs. Architecture and art history enthusiasts will find A Global History of Architecture perpetually at their fingertips.

Author Biography

FRANCIS D.K. CHING is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; Architectural Graphics; Interior Design Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley.

MARK M. JARZOMBEK is Director of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, Professor of the History of Architecture at MIT, and author of several books with university presses.

VIKRAMADITYA PRAKASH is Chair and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and the author of several academic publications.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Color Portfolio	xvii
Early Cultures	1	(4)
3500 BCE	5	(20)
Beginnings of China's Civilization	8	(2)
Niuheliang Ritual Center	10	(1)
Early Indus Settlements	11	(2)
Predynastic Egypt	13	(2)
Mesopotamia	15	(2)
Catal Huyuk	17	(2)
Eridu and Uruk	19	(3)
European Megalithic Tombs	22	(1)
Stone Circles	23	(2)
2500 BCE	25	(28)
Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization	28	(2)
Mohenjo-Daro	30	(2)
Early Empires of Mesopotamia	32	(1)
Ur	33	(1)
Ziggurat at Ur	34	(3)
Egypt: The Old Kingdom	37	(4)
Pyramids at Giza	41	(3)
Architecture and Food	44	(1)
Megalithic Temples of Malta	45	(2)
Stonehenge	47	(3)
First Civilizations of the Americas	50	(1)
Caral	51	(1)
El Paraiso	52	(1)
1500 BCE	53	(28)
Egypt: The New Kingdom	56	(4)
Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut	60	(1)
Sun Temple at Amarna	61	(1)
Abu Simbel	62	(1)
Egyptian Design Methods	63	(1)
Hittite Empire	64	(1)
Hattusas	65	(2)
Minoan Civilization	67	(1)
Knossos	68	(3)
Mycenaean Civilization	71	(2)
Treasury of Atreus	73	(1)
Sardinia	74	(1)
Civilization of the High Andes	75	(2)
Salinas de Chao	77	(1)
Poverty Point	78	(1)
Shang Dynasty China	79	(2)
800 BCE	81	(28)
Olmecs	84	(1)
San Lorenzo	85	(1)
La Venta	86	(2)
Chavin de Huantar	88	(2)
Zhou Dynasty China	90	(1)
Ritual Complex at Fengchu	91	(1)
Wangcheng Plan	92	(1)
Varanasi: The Aryan Conquest	93	(2)
Etruscan Civilization	95	(2)
Etruscan Religion	97	(2)
Etruscan Temples	99	(1)
Greece: Geometric Period	100	(2)
Emergence of the Greek Temple Form	102	(2)
Temple of Solomon	104	(1)
Kingdom of Kush	105	(1)
Sun Temple at Meroe	106	(1)
Neo-Assyrian Empire	107	(1)
Babylon	108	(1)
400 BCE	109	(36)
Achaemenid Dynasty	112	(2)
Persepolis	114	(2)
Classical Greece	116	(1)
Magna Graecia Temples	117	(1)
Greek Architecture and Language	118	(2)
Telesterion at Eleusis	120	(1)
Delphi	121	(1)
Temple of Apollo at Delphi	122	(1)
Ionic Order	123	(2)
Athenian Propylaea	125	(1)
Erectheum	126	(2)
Parthenon	128	(2)
Early Hellenic Age	130	(1)
Delos	131	(1)
Priene	132	(1)
Temple of Apollo at Didyma	133	(1)
Pergamon	134	(1)
Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos	135	(1)
Ptolemies	136	(1)
Temple of Horus	137	(1)
Advent of Buddhism	138	(1)
Asokan Pillars	139	(1)
China: The Warring States Period	140	(1)
Xianyang Palace	141	(1)
Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi	142	(1)
Late Olmec Centers	143	(1)
Kaminaljuyu	144	(1)
O	145	(40)
Republican Rome	148	(1)
Pompeii	149	(1)
Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste	150	(1)
Roman Urban Villa	151	(1)
Republican Tombs	152	(1)
Tholoi Tombs	153	(1)
Augustan Rome	154	(1)
Forum of Augustus	155	(1)
Corinthian Capitols	156	(1)
Post-Augustan Rome	157	(1)
Northern Palace at Masada	158	(1)
Domus Aurea	158	(1)
Palace of Domitian	159	(2)
Colosseum	161	(1)
Imperial Rome	162	(2)
Rock-Cut Tombs	164	(1)
Petra	165	(2)
Development of Mahayana Buddhism	167	(2)
Sanchi Complex	169	(2)
Junnar Caves	171	(1)
Caitya Hall at Kondivte	172	(1)
Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis	173	(1)
Qin Dynasty China	174	(1)
Mingtang-Biyong Ritual Complex	175	(1)
Zhao Gong	176	(1)
Great Wall of China	177	(1)
Tomb of the First Emperor	178	(2)
Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlan	180	(3)
Nakbe	183	(1)
El Mirador	184	(1)
200 CE	185	(38)
Roman Empire	188	(4)
Pantheon	192	(3)
Hadrian's Villa	195	(2)
Roman Vertical Surface	197	(2)
Roman Bath	199	(2)
Diocletian's Palace	201	(2)
Baalbek	203	(1)
Ctesiphon	204	(2)
Zoroastrian Fire Temples	206	(3)
Buddhism of the Satavahanas	209	(1)
Caitya Hall at Karli	210	(1)
Kushan	211	(1)
Takht-i-Bahi	212	(1)
Han China	213	(1)
Han Tombs	214	(1)
Moche and Nazca Civilizations	215	(2)
Nazca Lines	217	(1)
Teotihuacan	218	(3)
Temple of the Feathered Serpent	221	(1)
Ohio's Hopewell Mounds	222	(1)
400 CE	223	(30)
Hindu Renaissance	226	(1)
Gupta Period Temples	227	(1)
Ajanta Caves	228	(3)
Mahabodhi Temple	231	(1)
Kushans of Bamiyan	232	(1)
Establishment of Chinese Buddhism	233	(1)
Mogao Caves	234	(2)
Yungang Caves	236	(1)
Emergence of Christianity	237	(2)
St. John Lateran	239	(1)
Martyria	240	(1)
St. Peter's in Rome	241	(1)
First Baptisteries	242	(1)
Post-Constantian Age	243	(2)
Alahan Monastery	245	(2)
Tomb of King Theodoric	247	(1)
Zapotecs of Oaxaca	248	(1)
Monte Alban	249	(3)
Kofun Period: Japan	252	(1)
600 CE	253	(30)
Maya of the Yucatan	256	(1)
Tikal	256	(3)
Tiwanaku	259	(1)
Age of Justinian	260	(1)
SS. Sergius and Bacchus	261	(2)
St. Vitale, Ravenna	263	(1)
Hagia Sophia	264	(3)
Byzantine Capitals	267	(1)
Armenian Architecture	268	(1)
Church of the Vigilant Powers	269	(1)
St. Hripsime	270	(1)
Rise of the Temple Kingdoms	271	(1)
Shiva Temple at Elephanta	272	(1)
Durga Temple and the Five Rathas	273	(1)
Shore Temple at Mamallapuram	274	(1)
Songyue Temple Ta (Pagoda)	275	(1)
Sui and T'ang Dynasties	276	(1)
Daming Palace	276	(2)
Nara Period: Japan	278	(1)
Ise Jingu	278	(3)
Buddhism's Arrival in Japan	281	(1)
Horyu-ji	282	(1)
800 CE	283	(40)
Chang'an, the T'ang Capitol	286	(2)
Nanchan and Foguang Monasteries	288	(2)
Korean Buddhism	290	(1)
South Asian Hindu-Buddhism	291	(1)
Kailasnath at Ellora	292	(2)
Step Well at Abaneri	294	(1)
Mahavihara at Nalanda	295	(1)
Somapura Vihara	296	(1)
Indonesia at a Crossroads	297	(2)
Candi Prambanam	299	(1)
Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia	300	(1)
Phnom Bakheng	301	(1)
Construction in Southeast Asia	302	(1)
Rise of Islam	303	(1)
Dome of the Rock	304	(1)
Umayyad Mosque	305	(1)
Baghdad	306	(1)
Great Mosque of Samarra	307	(1)
Great Mosque of Cordoba	308	(2)
St. Maria de Naranco	310	(1)
Carolingian Empire	311	(2)
Plan of St. Gall	313	(1)
Royal Palace at Aachen	314	(1)
Byzantine Empire	315	(1)
Theotokos Tou Libos	316	(1)
Germigny-des-Pres	317	(1)
Pueblo Bonito	318	(2)
Maya City-States	320	(1)
Copan	321	(1)
Quirigua	322	(1)
1000 CE	323	(52)
Rise of the Rajput Kingdoms	326	(1)
Solankis	327	(1)
Sun Temple at Modhera	328	(1)
Tantrism	329	(1)
Chandellas	330	(1)
Khandariya Mahadeva Temple	331	(1)
Vastu-Shastras	332	(2)
Lingaraja Temple	334	(1)
Jains	335	(1)
Jain Temples at Mt. Abu	336	(1)
Cholamandalam	337	(1)
Vijayalaya Cholisvaram Temple	338	(2)
Song Dynasty China	340	(1)
Mu-Ta	341	(1)
Liao Dynasty	342	(2)
Pure Land Buddhism	344	(1)
Seljuk Turks	345	(1)
Sultan Han	346	(1)
Great Mosque of Isfahan	347	(2)
First Madrasas	349	(1)
Mosque at Qayrawan	350	(1)
Muqarnas	351	(1)
Fatimids	352	(1)
Almoravid Dynasty	353	(1)
Byzantine Revival	354	(2)
Ottonian Germany	356	(2)
Speyer Cathedral	358	(1)
Normans	359	(1)
Canterbury Cathedral	360	(1)
Durham Cathedral	361	(1)
Cefalu Cathedral	362	(1)
Dover Castle	363	(1)
Pilgrimage Churches	364	(2)
Italian City-States	366	(1)
Cathedral of Pisa	367	(1)
Baptistery of Parma	368	(1)
Medieval Scandinavia	369	(1)
Kievan Russia	370	(1)
Cappadocia	371	(1)
Mayan Uxmal	372	(2)
Cahokia	374	(1)
1200 CE	375	(40)
Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat)	378	(3)
Lokesvara Temple (Preah Khan)	381	(1)
Kingdom of Pagan	382	(2)
Kamakura Japan	384	(1)
Itsukushima Shrine	385	(1)
Southern Song Dynasty	386	(1)
Yingzhao Fashi	387	(1)
Yuan Dynasty	388	(2)
Delhi Sultanate	390	(1)
Quwwat-ul-Islam	390	(1)
Tomb of Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq	391	(1)
Sun Temple at Konarak	392	(1)
Hoysalas	393	(1)
Vadakkunnathan Temple	394	(1)
African Kingdoms	395	(1)
Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela	396	(1)
Europe: The High Middle Ages	397	(1)
Chartres Cathedral	398	(1)
Amiens Cathedral	399	(1)
Notre-Dame of Reims	400	(1)
Cistercian Monasteries	401	(1)
Castel del Monte	402	(2)
Mendicant Orders	404	(1)
Exeter Cathedral	405	(1)
Italian Town Halls	406	(1)
Siena	407	(1)
Republic of Novgorod	408	(1)
Nasrid Sultanate	409	(3)
Toltec Empire	412	(1)
Tula	412	(1)
Chichen Itza	413	(2)
1400 CE	415	(48)
Tenochtitlan	418	(2)
Chimu: Chan Chan	420	(1)
Incas	421	(1)
Machu Picchu	422	(2)
Nomadic Invaders	424	(1)
Ming Dynasty China	425	(1)
Mount Wudang	425	(1)
Forbidden City	426	(2)
Temple of Heaven	428	(1)
Joseon Dynasty	429	(1)
Muromachi Japan	430	(1)
Kinkakuji	430	(1)
Ginkakuji	431	(1)
Timurid Dynasty	432	(2)
Deccan Sultanates	434	(1)
Mandu	435	(1)
Pandua	435	(1)
Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad	436	(1)
Ottoman Empire	437	(1)
Beyazit Medical Complex	438	(1)
Topkapi Palace	439	(2)
Mamluk Sultanate	441	(1)
Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Qaitbay	442	(1)
Republic of Venice	443	(1)
Cathedral of Florence	444	(2)
Florentine Loggias	446	(1)
Medici Palace	447	(1)
Italian Renaissance	448	(1)
St. Lorenzo	449	(1)
Santo Spirito	450	(1)
Rucellai Palace	451	(1)
Pienza	452	(2)
St. Andrea at Mantua	454	(1)
Villa Medici	455	(1)
Miracle Churches	456	(1)
St. Maria dela Consolazione	457	(1)
St. Peter's Basilica	458	(1)
Vatican Belvedere	459	(1)
Piazza San Marco	460	(1)
French Chateaus	461	(1)
Liebfrauenmunster at Ingolstadt	462	(1)
1600 CE	463	(72)
Tokugawa Shogunate	466	(1)
Nijo-jo	467	(2)
Nikko Toshogu	469	(1)
Ryoanji Temple	470	(1)
Voyages of Zheng He	471	(1)
Moghuls	472	(1)
Humanyun's Tomb	472	(1)
Fatehpur Sikri	473	(2)
Diwan-i-Khas	475	(1)
Vijayanagar	476	(1)
Bijapur	477	(1)
Ibrahim Rauza	478	(1)
Sheikh Safi Tomb-Mosque	479	(1)
Shabanids of Bukhara	480	(1)
Spanish Conquest of America	481	(1)
Atrio	482	(2)
Escorial	484	(1)
Italian High Renaissance	485	(1)
Campidogilo	486	(1)
II Gesu	487	(1)
Villa Farnese	488	(2)
II Redentore	490	(1)
Palladian Villas	491	(1)
Villa Rotonda	492	(1)
Uffizi	493	(1)
Amsterdam	494	(1)
Amsterdam Town Hall	495	(1)
Place Royale	496	(1)
Elizabethan England	497	(1)
Hardwick Hall	498	(1)
Banqueting House	499	(1)
Kremlin's New Churches	500	(1)
Church of the Ascension	501	(1)
Baroque Italy	502	(2)
St. Andrea al Quirinale	504	(1)
St. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane	505	(1)
St. Ivo alla Sapienza	506	(1)
San Filippo Neri	507	(1)
Church of the Visitation	508	(1)
Dogon of Mali	509	(2)
Architecture of the Eurasian Power Bloc	511	(2)
Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Imperial Villa)	513	(4)
Ming Tombs	517	(4)
Potala Palace	521	(3)
Rauza-I-Munavvara (Taj Mahal)	524	(3)
Isfahan	527	(2)
Suleymaniye Complex	529	(2)
St. Peter's Basilica	531	(4)
1700 CE	535	(48)
Colonialism	538	(2)
Colonial Forts	540	(1)
Haciendas	541	(1)
Brazilian Haciendas	542	(1)
Coffee Houses	543	(1)
French Culture of Empire	544	(2)
Hotel de Sully	546	(1)
Place Vendome	547	(1)
East Facade of the Louvre	548	(1)
Chateau de Versailles	549	(2)
L'Observatoire-de-Paris	551	(1)
Hotel des Invalides	552	(1)
Basilica of the Invalides	553	(1)
England: House of Stuart	554	(1)
Charnock's Tomb	555	(1)
St. Paul's Cathedral	556	(1)
Blenheim Palace	557	(1)
St. Mary Woolnoth	558	(1)
Spread of the Baroque	559	(1)
Valletta	560	(1)
Rococo and the Zwinger	561	(1)
Facade of Santiago de Compostela	562	(1)
Bavarian Baroque	563	(1)
Neresheim	564	(1)
Sans Souci	565	(1)
Georgian Architecture	566	(1)
Chiswick House	567	(1)
King's Chapel	568	(1)
Stowe Gardens	569	(1)
Temple of British Worthies	570	(1)
Qing Dynasty	571	(1)
Yuanmingyuan Gardens	572	(1)
Qingyi Garden	573	(1)
Edo, Kyoto's Odoi, and Shimabara	574	(2)
Korea: Choson Dynasty	576	(1)
Nayaks of Madurai	577	(2)
Mallas of Nepal	579	(1)
End of the Moghuls	580	(1)
Jaipur	580	(1)
Hawa Mahall	581	(1)
Darbar Sahib	582	(1)
1800 CE	583	(44)
Qianlong Emperor	586	(1)
Chengde	587	(1)
Pulesi	588	(1)
Putuo Zongcheng	588	(1)
Neoclassicism	589	(1)
Syon House	590	(1)
Piranesi and Romanticism	591	(1)
Strawberry Hill	592	(1)
Marc-Antoine Laugier	593	(1)
St. Genevieve	594	(1)
Petit Trianon	595	(1)
Salt Works of Chaux	596	(1)
Bibliotheque Nationale	597	(1)
Neoclassicism in the United States	598	(1)
Napoleonic Cemeteries	599	(1)
Bank of England	600	(1)
Calcutta and the Writers' Building	601	(1)
St. John's Church	602	(1)
Government House	603	(1)
Royal Pavilion	604	(1)
Panoptic Prisons	605	(1)
Japan: Edo Period	606	(1)
Kanamaru-za	607	(1)
Romantic Nationalism	608	(1)
Altes Museum	609	(2)
St. Petersburg	611	(1)
Washington, D.C.	611	(2)
Shakers	613	(1)
August Welby Pugin	614	(1)
Westminster	615	(1)
Jean Nicolas Louis Durand	616	(1)
Greek Revival	617	(1)
Tennessee State Capitol	618	(1)
Synagogues	619	(2)
Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc	621	(2)
Bibliotheque St. Genevieve	623	(1)
John Ruskin	624	(1)
Wat Pra Kaew	625	(2)
1900 CE	627	(60)
Metropolitan Board of Works	630	(1)
Railroad Stations	631	(1)
World Fairs	632	(1)
The Passage	633	(1)
Central Park	634	(1)
National Museums	635	(1)
London Law Courts	636	(1)
Colonial Bombay	637	(1)
Ecole des Beaux-Arts	638	(1)
Paris Opera House	639	(1)
Domestic Victorian Architecture	640	(1)
Queen Anne Style	641	(1)
Henry Hobson Richardson	642	(2)
Arts-and-Crafts Movement	644	(1)
Morris and Lethaby	645	(1)
Indo-Saracenic Style	646	(2)
Dutch Kampung	648	(1)
Al-Rifa'i Mosque	649	(1)
Arts and Crafts in California	650	(1)
Shingle Style	651	(1)
City Beautiful Movement	652	(1)
Rise of Professionalism	653	(1)
Skyscrapers	654	(1)
Wrigley Building	655	(1)
Campuses in the United States	656	(1)
Art Nouveau	657	(1)
Maison Tassel	658	(1)
Casa Batllo	659	(1)
Frank Lloyd Wright	660	(1)
Taliesin	661	(1)
Walter Burley Griffin	662	(1)
International Beaux-Arts	663	(1)
Kyoto National Museum	664	(1)
Colonial Africa	665	(1)
Deutsche Werkbund	666	(1)
Adolf Loos	667	(1)
Concrete	668	(2)
Garnisonskirche	670	(1)
Czech Cubists	671	(1)
Expressionism	672	(2)
New Delhi	674	(1)
Gunnar Asplund	675	(1)
Hollyhock House	676	(1)
De Stijl Movement	677	(1)
Friedrichstrasse Office Tower	678	(1)
Russian Constructivism	679	(1)
Tatlin's Tower	680	(1)
Soviet Pavilion	681	(1)
Bauhaus	682	(2)
Vers une Architecture	684	(1)
Villa Savoye	685	(1)
Pavilion Suisse	686	(1)
1950 CE	687	(66)
Modernism	690	(2)
Weissenhof Siedlung	692	(2)
Lovell House	694	(1)
CIAM	695	(1)
Barcelona Pavilion	696	(2)
Ankara	698	(1)
Rockefeller Center	699	(1)
Buckminster Fuller	700	(2)
Palace of the Soviets	702	(2)
Czechoslovakia	704	(1)
Japanese Pavilion	705	(1)
Brazilian Modernism	706	(2)
Villa Mairea	708	(1)
Usonian Houses	709	(1)
Fallingwater	710	(1)
Kleinhans Music Hall	711	(1)
Lebanese Modernism	712	(1)
Israeli Modernism	713	(1)
Nazis	714	(1)
Italian Fascist Architecture	715	(1)
Casa del Fascio	716	(1)
IIT Library Building	717	(1)
Farnsworth House	718	(1)
Eames House	719	(1)
Guggenheim Museum	720	(1)
Chapel at Ronchamp	721	(1)
Saynatsalo Town Hall	722	(1)
Yale University Art Gallery	723	(1)
Brasilia	724	(2)
Chandigarh	726	(1)
Secretariat and High Court	727	(1)
Assembly Building	728	(1)
Ahmedabad	729	(1)
Eero Saarinen	730	(1)
Sydney Opera House	731	(1)
Uruguayan Modernism	732	(1)
Caribbean Modernism	733	(1)
Ekistics	734	(1)
Mao Tse-tung's China	735	(1)
National School of Art, Havana	736	(1)
Salk Institute	737	(1)
Metabolism	738	(1)
University of Ibadan	739	(1)
SOM	740	(1)
Archigram	741	(1)
Brutalism	742	(2)
Doshi and Correa	744	(2)
Postmodernism	746	(1)
Postmodern Museum	746	(4)
Postmodern Nonwestern World	750	(3)
Globalization Takes Command	753	(6)
Glossary	759	(10)
Bibliography	769	(9)
Photo Credits	778	(3)
Index	781