A World History of Architecture

by Fazio, Michael; Moffett, Marian; Wodehouse, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780071544795
• ISBN10: 0071544798
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

A magnificently illustrated guide to theglobal history of architectureupdated toinclude the non-western world and worksfrom womenThe Second Edition of this historical architecturalguide gives you a deeperknowledge and wider perspective of traditions inarchitecture throughout the worldfrom prehistoricthrough modern structures. Extensively and beautifullyillustrated, the book includes photos, plans, scales forworld-famous structures such as the Parthenon, Versailles,the Brooklyn Bridge, and many others.

Author Biography

Michael Fazio is emeritus professorof architecture at Mississippi State University. He is the authorof The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

Marian Moffett taught architectural history at the Universityof Tennessee. Her publications include A History of WesternArchitecture, and East Tennessee Cantilever Barns.

Lawrence Wodehouse taught architectural history at theUniversity of Dundee and various American universities.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Architecture

The Greek World

The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia

Traditional Architecture of China and Japan

The Roman World

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Islamic Architecture

Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture

Gothic Architecture

Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Renaissance Architecture

Baroque Architecture

The Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth Century Developments

The Twentieth Century and Modernism

Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century

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