A WORLD HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE (2ND EDITION)

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A World History of Architecture (2nd edition)

Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio and Lawrence Wodehouse

Paperback
569 illustrations
608 pages
290 x 220 mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 549 7

Published January 2008

Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Beginnings of Architecture
2. The Greek World
3. The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia
4. Traditional Architecture of China and Japan
5. The Roman World
6. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
7. Islamic Architecture
8. Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture
9. Gothic Architecture
10. Indigenous Architecture in the Americas and Africa
11. Renaissance Architecture
12. Baroque Architecture
13. The Eighteenth Century
14. Nineteenth Century Developments
15. The Twentieth Century and Modernism
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index

The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas and venustas - firmness, commodity and delight - to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large and future generations.

Michael Fazio is emeritus professor of architecture at Mississippi State University. The late Marian Moffett taught architectural history at the University of Tennessee. Her publications include A History of Western Architecture (1989), with Lawrence Wodehouse. Lawrence Wodehouse, also deceased, taught architectural history at the University of Dundee and various American universities. His many books included British Architects, 1840 to 1976 (1978) and White of McKim, Mead, and White (1988).