Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture
Michael W. Fazio|Marian Moffett|Lawrence Wodehouse
Introduction A Word about Drawings and Images 1. The Beginnings of Architecture Prehistoric Settlements Megalith Constructions Ancient Mesopotamia Egypt 2. Greek World Aegean Cultures Minoans Mycenaeans Greece: Archaic Period Classical Hellenistic City Planning 3. India Southeast Asia Religions Early Buddhist Shrines Hindu Temples 4. Traditional China Japan Chinese Architectural Principles Houses Gardens Japanese Temple Castles Zen Its Derivatives 5. Roman Etruscan Imprints Romans Building Techniques Materials Public Buildings Residences 6. Christian Byzantine Basilicas Martyria, Baptisteries, Mausolea Domed Centrally Planned Churches in Russia 7. Islamic Palaces Conception the Mosque Regional Variations Design Tombs Urban Patterns Palace Garden 8. Medieval Romanesque Carolingian Viking Holy Empire Pilgrimage Road Order Cluny Aquitaine Provence Cistercian Monasteries Norman 9. Gothic High English German, Czech, Italian Construction Cities 10. Indigenous Pre-Columbian Americas North America Mexico Central South America: Andean Africa 11. Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Michelozzo Bartolomeo Palazzo Medici Leone Battista Alberti Other Plans Spread Leonardo da Vinci Donato Bramante Late Mannerism Michelangelo Andrea Palladio Palladio's Venice France England 12. Baroque Reformation Counter Pope Sixtus V Replanning Rome Gianlorenzo Bernini Francesco Borromini Open Spaces to Northern Italy Europe Christopher Wren Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John VanBrugh, James Gibbs 13. Eighteenth Century Neo-Palladians Return Antiquity Robert Adam William Chambers Etienne-Louis Boullee Claude-Nicolas Ledoux French Architects Aggrandizement State Designs by Pensionnaires Education Ecole de Beaux Arts Challenge Industrial Revolution Romanticism Picturesque Romantic Landscape 14. Nineteenth Developments Neo-Classicism Revival des Beaux-Arts Steel Applications Iron Skeletal Concrete Wood Crafts Movement Art Nouveau Viennese Secession Search for an American Style 15. Twentieth Modernism Idea a Modern Adolf Loos Masters Frank Lloyd Wright Peter Behrens Deutscher Werkbund Futurism Constructivism Dutch German Expressionism Deco De Stijl Exploiting Potential Le Corbusier Walter Gropius Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Weissenhof Siedlung International Later Work Continuation 16. Modernisms Mid- Late-Twentieth Alvar Aalto Eero Saarinen His Office Louis I. Kahn Venturi's Radical Counter-Proposal Philip Johnson Charles Moore Michael Graves A. M. Stern Deconstruction Perseverance Tradition Regionalism Form-Making United States Elsewhere European Technology Sustainable