Buildings across time: an introduction to world architecture

The beginnings of world architecture : Prehistoric settlements and megalith constructions ; Ancient Mesopotamia ; Ancient Egypt

The Greek world : The Aegean culture ; 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 : Religions of India ; Early Buddhist shrines ; Hindu temples

Traditional architecture of China and Japan : Chinese architectural principles ; Principles of city planning ; Houses and gardens ; Japanese temple architecture ; Japanese houses and castles ; Zen Buddhist architecture and its derivatives

The Roman world : Entruscan imprints ; The Romans ; Building techniques and materials ; City planning ; Temples ; Public buildings ; Residences

Early Christian and Byzantine architecture : Early Christian basilicas ; Martyria, baptisteries, and mausolea ; Byzantine basilicas and domed basilicas ; Centrally planned Byzantine churches; Churches in Russia

Islamic architecture : Early shrines and palaces ; Conception of the mosque ; Regional variations in mosque design ; Houses and urban patterns ; The palace and the garden

Early medieval and Romanesque architecture : Carolingian architecture ; Viking architecture ; Early Romanesque architecture ; Romanesque architecture of the Hold Roman Empire ; Pilgrimage road churches ; The order of Cluny ; Aquitaine and Provence ; Cistercian monasteries ; Norman architecture

Gothic architecture : Early Gothic ; High Gothic ; English Gothic ; German, Czech, and Italian Gothic ; Medieval construction ; Medieval houses and castles ; Medieval cities

Indigenous architecture in the Americas and Africa : North America ; Mexico and Central America ; South America: the Andean world ; Africa

Renaissance architecture : Filippo Brunelleschi ; Michelozzo Bartolomeo and the Palazzo Medici ; Leon Battista Alberti ; The spread of the Renaissance ; Leonardo Da Vinci ; Donato Bramante ; The late Renaissance and Mannerism ; Michelangelo ; Andrea Palladio ; Palladio's Venice ; Garden design ; The Renaissance in France ; The Renaissance in England

Baroque architecture : The Reformation and Counter-Reformation ; Pope Sixtus V and the replanning of Rome ; Gianlorenzo Bernini ; Francesco Borromini ; Urban open spaces in Baroque Rome ; The spread of Baroque ; The Baroque in Central Europe ; The Baroque in France ; Christopher Wren and the Baroque in England ; Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John Vanbrugh, and James Gibbs

The eighteenth century : The English neo-Palladians ; The return to antiquity ; Robert Adam and William Chambers ; Etienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux ; French architects and the aggrandizement of the state ; Designs by the pensionnaires ; French architectural education and teh Ecole des Beaux-Arts

The challenge of the Industrial Revolution ; Romanticism and the picturesque ; The romantic landscape ; Picturesque buildings

Nineteenth-century developments : Neo-classicism ; The Gothic revival ; The Ecole des Beaux-Arts ; Developments in steel ; Architectural applications of iron ; Skeletal construction in concrete and wood ; The Arts and Crafts movement ; Art Nouveau ; The Viennese Scession ; THe search for an American style

The twentieth century and modernism : The idea of a modern architecture ; Adolf Loos ; The modern masters ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Peter Behrens and the Deutscher Werkbund ; Futurism and constructivism ; Dutch and German expressionism ; Art Deco ; De Stijl ; Exploiting the potential of concrete ; Le Crobusier ; Walter Gropius ; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ; The Weissenhof Siedlung and the International style ; Later work of Mies van der Rohe ; Later work of Frank Lloyd Wright ; Later work of Le Corbusier ; The continuation of traditional architecture

Modernisms in the mid- and late [twentieth] century and beyond : Alvar Aalto ; Eero Saarinen and his office ; Louis I. Kahn ; Robert Venturi's radical counter-proposal to modernism ; Intellectual inspirations of post-modernism ; Philip Johnson ; Charles Moore ; Michael Graves ; Robert A.M. Stern ; Deconstruction ; Perseverance of the classical tradition ; Modern regionalism ; Modernism and Japan ; Form-making in the United States ; Form-making elsewhere ; European architects and technology ; Sustainable design ; Architects working in China.