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A Global History of Architecture

ISBN: 9780471268925 | 0471268925
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 8/1/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 ... MORE
Prefacexi
Color Portfolioxvii
Early Cultures
1(4)
3500 BCE
5(20)... MORE
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 Command753(6)
Glossary759(10)
Bibliography769(9)
Photo Credits778(3)
Index781
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.



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