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Introduction

A Word about Drawings and Images

Using the CD

The Beginnings of Architecture

Prehistoric Settlements andMegalith Constructions

Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt

The Early Dynastic Period and OldKingdom (First through Eight Dynasties, CA. 2920-2134 BCE)

The Middle Kingdom (Elevenththrough Thirteenth Dynasties, CA. 2040-1640 BCE)

The New Kingdom (Eighteenththrough Twentieth Dynasties, CA. 1550-... MORE1070 BCE)

The Greek World

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Greece: The Archaic Period

Greece: The Classical Period

Greece: The Hellenistic Period

Greek City Planning

The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia

Early Buddhist Shrines

The Spread of Buddhist Influence

Early Hindu Shrines

Traditional Architecture of China and Japan

Chinese Architectural Principles

Principles of City Planning

Houses and Gardens

Japanese Temple Architecture

Japanese Cities, Castles, andHouses

Zen Buddhist Architecture

The Roman World

Roman Architecture

Building Techniques and Materials

City Planning

Temples

Public Buildings

Residences

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Early Christian Basilicas

Martyria, Baptistries, andMausolea

Byzantine Basilicas and DomedBasilicas

Centrally Planned ByzantineChurches

Byzantine Churches in Russia

Islamic Architecture

Early Shrines and Palaces

Development of the Mosque

Regional Variations in MosqueDesign

Houses, Palaces, and UrbanPatterns

Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture

Carolingian Architecture

Anglo-Saxon and VikingArchitecture

Early Romanesque Architecture

Romanesque Architecture of theHoly Roman Empire

Churches of the Pilgrimage Roads

The Order of Cluny

Romanesque Architecture ofAquitaine and Provence

Cistercian Monasteries

Norman Architecture

Gothic Architecture

Early Gothic

High Gothic

Gothic Architecture in England

Italian and German Gothic

Medieval Construction

Medieval Housing and Castles

Medieval Cities

Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Tribes of the Great Plains and theGreat Lakes

Tribes of the Northeast

Tribes of the Mississippi RiverBasin

Arctic and Subarctic Tribes

Tribes of the Northwest andNorthern California

Tribes of the Southwest

The Olmecs of the Eastern MexicanCoast

Teotihuacan in the Valley ofMexico

The Zapotecs and Mixtecs at MonteAlban in Oaxaca

Tikal and Oter Maya Sites inGuatemala and the Yucatan

The Toltecs in the Valley ofMexico

The Aztecs at Tenochlitlan

The Incas in the Andes

Renaissance Architecture

Filippo Brunelleschi

Leone Battista Alberti

Other Renaissance City Plans

The Spread of the Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci

Donato Bramante

The Late Renaissance or Mannerism

Michelangelo

Andrea Palladio

Palladios Venice

Garden Design

The Renaissance in France

The Renaissance in England

Baroque Architecture

The Catholic reformation andCounter Reformation

Pope Sixtus V and the Replanningof Rome

The Completion of St. Peters andthe Work of Gianlorenzo Bernini

The Small Roman Churches byFrancesco Borromini

Urban Open Spaces in Baroque Rome

The Spread of Baroque Architectureto Northern Italy

The Baroque in Central Europe

The Baroque in France

Christopher Wren and the Baroquein England

Hawksmoor, VanBrugh, and Gibbs

The Eighteenth Century

The English Neo-Palladians

The Return to Antiquity

Robert Adam and William Chambers

tienne-Louis Boulle andClaude-Nicholas Ledoux

French Architects and theAggrandizement of the State

French Architectural Education andthe Ecole de Beaux Arts

The Challenge of the IndustrialRevolution

Romanticism and the Picturesque

The Romantic Landscape

Picturesque Buildings

Nineteenth Century Developments

Neo-Classicism

The Gothic Revival

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Progress in Iron and SteelFabrication

Architectural Applications of Ironand Steel Construction

Skeletal Construction in Concreteand Wood

The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Art Nouveau

The Vienna Secession

Henry Hobson Richardson and LouisSullivan in America

The Twentieth Century and Modernism

The Idea of a Modern Architecture

Adolf Loos

The Modern Masters

Frank Lloyd Wright

Peter Behrens and the DeutscherWerkbund

Futurism and Constructivism

Dutch and German Expressionism

The Art Deco

De Stijl

Architects and Engineers whoExploited the Potential of Concrete

Tony Garnier and the IndustrialCity

Le Corbusier

Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

The Weissenhof Siedlung and theInternational Style

Later Work of Mies Van der Rohe

Later Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Later Work of Le Corbusier

Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century

Alvar Aalto

Eero Saarinen

Louis I. Kahn

Robert Venturis RadicalCounter-Proposal to Modernism

Intellectual Inspirations forPost-Modernism

Philip Johnson

Charles Moore

Michael Graves

Robert A.M. Stern

Richard Meier

The Exploitation of Technology byJames Stirling and Others

Deconstruction

Peter Eisenman

Frank Gehry

Glenn Murcutt