Title: The story of architecture /
Authors: Nuttgens, Patrick.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Architecture History; Architecture history; Art history
Contents: Origins -- Barbaric Splendour: the first civilizations, 4000 BC to fourth century AD -- The Geometry of Immortality: Ancient Egypt, 3200 BC to first century AD -- The Holy Mountain and the Sacred Womb: Southern Asia, 2500 BC to eighteenth century AD -- Puzzles and Modules: China and Japan, third century BC to twentieth century AD -- Ritual of Blood: Pre-Hispanic America, 1200 BC to sixteenth century AD -- The Landscape of the Gods, Ancient Greece, fifth century BC to the first century AD -- The Authority of Competence: Rome, fourth century BC to fifth century AD -- The Worshipping Community: early Christian and Byzantine, fourth to fifteenth century -- The Order and the Sanctuary: Romanesque, ninth to twelfth century -- The Flowering of the Desert: Islam, seventh to twentieth century