A global history of architecture
By: Francis D.K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash.
Contributors: Jarzombek, Mark.; Prakash, Vikramaditya.
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Architecture -- History
Description: "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 architecture, supplemented by drawings from the renowned Frank Ching as well as photographs."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 3500 BCE; title: Beginnings of China's civilization; title: Early Indus settlements; title: Predynastic Egypt; title: Mesopotamia; title: European megalithic tombs; title: 2500 BCE; title: Indus Ghaggar-Hakra civilization; title: Early empires of Mesopotamia; title: Egypt: the Old Kingdom; title: Megalithic temples of Malta; title: Stonehenge; title: First civilizations of the Americas; title: 1500 BCE; title: Egypt: the New Kingdom; title: Hittite Empire; title: Minoan civilization; title: Mycenaean civilization; title: Civilization of the High Andes; title: Poverty Point; title: Shang Dynasty China; title: 800 BCE; title: The Olmecs; title: Chavin de Huántar; title: Zhou Dynasty China; title: Varanasi: the Aryan conquest; title: Etruscan civilization; title: Greece: the geometric period; title: Temple of Solomon; title: Kingdom of Kush; title: Neo-Assyrian Empire; title: 400 BCE; title: Achaemenid Dynasty; title: Classical Greece; title: Early Hellenic Age; title: Advent of Bhuddism; title: China: the Warring States period; title: Late Olmec Centers; title: 0; title: Republican Rome; title: Augustan Rome; title: Post-Augustan Rome; title: Imperial Rome; title: Mahayana Buddhism; title: Taxila: the Gandharan Cosmopolis; title: Qin Dynasty China; title: Shaft tombs of Teuchitlán; title: 200 CE; title: Roman Empire; title: Zoroastrian fire temples; title: Buddhism of the Satvahanas; title: The Kushan; title: Han China; title: The Moche and Nazca civilizations; title: Teotihuacán; title: Ohio's Hopewell Mounds; title: 400 CE; title: Hindu Renaissance; title: Kushans of Bamiyan; title: Establishment of Chinese Buddhism; title: Emergence of Christianity; title: Post-Constantinian age; title: Zapotecs of Oaxaca; title: Kofun period: Japan; title: 600 CE; title: Maya of the Yucatan; title: Tiwanaku; title: Age of Justinian; title: Armenian architecture; title: Rise of the temple kingdoms; title: The Sui and Tang dynasties; title: Nara period: Japan; title: 800 CE; title: Chang-an, the Tang capitol; title: Korean Buddhism; title: South Asian Hindu-Buddhism; title: Indonesia at a crossroads; title: Hindu kingdoms of Cambodia; title: Construction in Southeast Asia; title: Rise of Islam; title: Carolingian Empire; title: Byzantine Empire; title: Pueblo Bonito; title: Maya city-states; title: 1000; title: Rise of Rajput kingdoms; title: Song Dynasty China; title: Pure-Land Buddhism; title: Seljuk Turks; title: The Fatimids; title: Almoravid Dynasty; title: Byzantine revival; title: Ottonian Germany; title: The Normans; title: Pilgrimage churches; title: Italian city-states; title: Medieval Scandanavia; title: Kievan Russia; title: Mayan Uxmal; title: Native Americans of Cahokia; title: 1200; title: Khmer Vrah Vishnulok; title: Kingdom of Pagan; title: Kamakura Japan; title: Southern Song Dynasty; title: Delhi Sultanate; title: The Hoysalas; title: African kingdoms; title: Europe: the High Middle Ages; title: Republic of Novgorod; title: Nasrid Sultanate; title: Toltec Empire; title: 1400; title: The Mexica: Tenochtitlan; title: Nomadic invaders; title: Ming Dynasty China; title: Joseon Dynasty; title: Muromachi Japan; title: Timurid Dynasty; title: The Deccan sultanates; title: Ottoman Empire; title: Mamluk Sultanate; title: Republic of Venice; title: Italian Renaissance; title: French chateaux; title: 1600; title: Tokugawa Shogunate; title: Voyages of Zheng He; title: The Mughals; title: Spanish conquest of America; title: Italian High Renaissance; title: Place Royale; title: Elizabethan England; title: The Kremlin's new churches; title: Baroque Italy; title: The Dogons of Mali; title: Architecture of the Eurasian power bloc; title: 1700; title: Colonialism; title: The French culture of empire; title: England: House of Stuart; title: Spread of the baroque; title: Georgian architecture; title: Qing Dynasty China; title: Edo and the Kyoto Odoi; title: Choson Dynasty; title: Nayaks of Madurai; title: The Mallas of Nepal; title: End of the Mughals; title: 1800; title: Qianlong Emperor; title: Neo-classicism; title: Japan: the Edo Period; title: Romantic nationalism; title: Shakers; title: Greek Revival; title: Synagogues; title: Viollet le Duc; title: Wat Pra Kaeow; title: 1900; title: London Metropolitan Board of Works; title: World's Fairs; title: National museums; title: Colonial Bombay; title: École des beaux-arts; title: Arts and crafts movement; title: The Indo-Saracenic; title: Dutch Kampung; title: Shingle style; title: The City Beautiful movement; title: Rise of professionalism; title: Skyscrapers; title: Art nouveau; title: International beaux arts; title: Colonial Africa; title: The Deutsche Werkbund; title: Expressionism; title: De Stijl; title: Russian constructivism; title: Bauhaus; title: 1950; title: Modernism; title: Postmodernism; title: The postmodern museum; title: The postmodern postcolonial world; title: Globalization.