Preface Chapter 1. Prehistory 1.1. Architecture as a Second Nature: Sacred Caves and Primitive Huts 1.2. Vernacular Architecture: A Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, and Stones 1.3. Megaliths and Stone Circles: Building as Memory Chapter 2.
3000-1500BCE 2.1. Cities of Mesopotamia: Mud, Gods, and Urbanism 2.2. Old Kingdom Egypt: Architecture for the Afterlife 2.3. The Indus Valley: Cities without Monuments Chapter 3. 1500-700BCE 3.
1. The Aegean in the Bronze Age: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls 3.2. New Kingdom Egypt: Axial Temples and the Colossus 3.3. Biblical Jerusalem: Architecture and Memory Chapter 4. 700-200BCE 4.1.
Southwest Asia and Achaemenid Persia: A Cycle of Empires 4.2. The Greek City-State: Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora 4.3. Mauryan India: Emblems of Peace in Stone Chapter 5. 200BCE-300CE 5.1. Ancient Rome: Governing Through Architecture 5.
2. Ancient China: The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood 5.3. Ancient Mexico: Pyramids and Sacrifice Chapter 6. 300-600 6.1. Early Christian Italy: The Inward Orientation of the Church 6.2.
Byzantium: The Dome as an Act of Faith 6.3. Gupta India: Rock-Cut Architecture and the Art of Subtraction. Chapter 7. 600-800 7.1. The Spread of Islam: Hypostyle Mosques and Towering Minarets 7.2.
Tang China and East Asia: Gridded Capitals and Lofty Pagodas 7.3. The Maya of Central America: Recreating the Mountain of Creation Chapter 8. 800-1200 8.1. Southeast Asia and Southern India: Lived-in Models of Cosmic Order 8.2. Islamic Spain and Morocco: Interlacing Forms in al-Andalus and the Maghreb 8.
3. Western Europe after the Roman Empire: Monks, Knights, and Pilgrims. Chapter 9. 1200-1350 9.1. The Mercantile Mediterranean: Marble Facades and Shining Cupolas 9.2. Gothic Europe: The Fabric of the Great Cathedral 9.
3. Sub-Saharan Africa: Living Architecture Chapter 10. 1350-1500 10.1. Humanist Italy: Public Spaces and Private Palaces of the Renaissance 10.2. Eastern Europe: From the Spirit of Wood to the Conventions of Masonry 10.3.
Pre-Contact America: Empires of the Sun Chapter 11. 1500-1600 11.1. China after 1000: The Mandate of Heaven Made to Last 11.2. The Ottoman Empire: The Pursuit of Local Symmetries 11.3. Papal Rome: The Fountainhead of Renaissance Classicism Chapter 12.
1600-1700 12.1. Islamic Realms in Central Asia. The Dome of Power, the Garden of Paradise 12.2. Catholic Europe: The Settings of Absolutism 12.3. Edo Japan: Isolation from the World, Integration with Nature Chapter 13.
1700-1750 13.1. Protestant Europe: An Architecture of Essentials 13.2. The Diffusion of the Baroque: Life as Theater 13.3. The American Colonies: Domination and Liberty on the Grid Chapter 14. 1750-1800 14.
1. The Picturesque: Landscapes of the Informal, the Exotic, and the Sublime 14.2. Enlightenment Europe: Theory, Revolution, and Architecture 14.3. Industry and Punishment: Factories and Warehouse, Prisons and Workhouses Chapter 15. 1800-1850 15.1.
After the Revolution: The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism 15.2. The Gothic Revival: Anti-Modern and Proto-Nationalist 15.3. The New Iron Age: The Spread of Metal and Glass Technologies Chapter 16. 1850-1900 16.1. The Rise of the Metropolis: Urbanism and the New Scale of Architecture 16.
2. Life Styles and House Form: Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, and Utopias 16.3. The Beaux-Arts: Eclecticism and Professionalism Chapter 17. 1900-1920 17.1. Arts and Crafts: Design and the Dignity of Labor. 17.
2. The Twilight of Western Imperialism: Monuments to the White Man''s Burden 17.3. Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Form: Architecture without Precedents Chapter 18. 1920-1940 18.1. American Skyscrapers and Automobiles: Mass Production Meets Individualism 18.2.
European Modernisms: The Dialogue between Form and Function 18.3. Totalitarian Settings in Modern Europe: Architecture as Propaganda Chapter 19. 1940-1970 19.1. The International Style and the Advent of the Welfare State 19.2. The Birth of the Third World: Experiments in Postcolonial Urbanism 19.
3. The Expressionist Awakening: Hybrids amid Mass Culture Chapter 20. 1970- 20.1. Postmodern Movements: Populism, Radicalism, and Irony 20.2. Multinational Versus Multicultural Practice 20.3.
Toward an Ecological Worldview: Architecture in the Age of Global Warming Credits Glossary Index.