Machine generated contents note: ch. 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

ch. 2 3000-1500 BCE

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

ch. 3 1500

750 BCE

3.1. The Aegean In The Bronze Age: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls

3.2. New Kingdom Egypt: Axial Temples and Colossal Statues

3.3. Biblical Jerusalem: Architecture and Memory

ch. 4 700

-200 BCE

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

ch. 5 200 BCE

-300 CE

5.1. Ancient Rome: Governing through Architecture.

Contents note continued: 5.2. Ancient China: The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood

5.3. Ancient Mexico: Pyramids and Sacrifice

ch. 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

ch. 7 600

800

7.1. The Spread Of Islam: Hypostyle Mosques and Soaring Minarets

7.2. Tang China And East Asia: Gridded Capitals And Lofty Pagodas

7.3. The Maya Of Central America: Reproducing the Mountain of Creation

ch. 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

ch. 9 1200

1350

9.1. The Mercantile Mediterranean: New Facades for Old Cities

9.2. Gothic Europe: The Fabric of the Great Cathedrals.

Contents note continued: 9.3. Sub-Saharan Africa: Living Architecture

ch. 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

ch. 11 1500

1600

11.1. China After 1000: The Mandate of Heaven Made to Last

11.2. The Ottoman Empire: A Culture of Local Symmetries

11.3. Papal Rome: The Fountainhead of Renaissance Classicism

ch. 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

ch. 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

ch. 14 1750

1800.

Contents note continued: 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 Warehouses, Prisons and Workhouses

ch. 15 1800

1850

15.1. After The Revolution: The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism

15.2. The Gothic Revival: Antimodern and Proto-Nationalist

15.3. The New Iron Age: The Spread of Metal and Glass Technologies

ch. 16 1850

1890

16.1. The Rise Of The Metropolis: Urbanism and the New Scale of Architecture

16.2. Lifestyles And House Form: Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, And Utopias

16.3. The Beaux-Arts: Eclecticism and Professionalism

ch. 17 1890

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

ch. 18 1920

1940.

Contents note continued: 18.1. American Skyscrapers and Automobiles: Mass Production Meets Individualism

18.2. European Modernisms: A Dialogue between Form and Function

18.3. Totalitarian Settings in Modern Europe: Architecture as Propaganda

ch. 19 1940

1970

19.1. The International Style and The Advent Of the Welfare State: Modernism Becomes I Conventional

19.2. The Birth Of the Third World: Experiments in Postcolonial Architecture

19.3. The Expressionist Resurgence: Hybrids amid Mass Culture

ch. 20 After 1970

20.1. Postmodern Movements: Populism, Radicalism, and Irony

20.2. Multinational Versus Multicultural Practice: Going Global versus Staying Local

20.3. Toward an Ecological Worldview: Architecture in the Age of Global Warming.