Overview
Main description
This heavily illustrated survey text provides students of both art history and architecture with a worldwide introduction to the history of architecture that is comprehensive and yet accessible. The third edition continues to offer comprehensive coverage in an accessible manner with expanded pedagogy, added social and historical context, and extended coverage of African and Andean architecture, as well as modern designs by women and non-Western architects.
Table of contents
IntroductionA Word about Drawings and Images1. The Beginnings of ArchitecturePrehistoric Settlements and Megalith Constructions Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt 2. The Greek WorldThe Aegean CulturesThe Minoans The Mycenaeans Greece: The Archaic Period Greece: The Classical Period Greece: The Hellenistic Period Greek City Planning3. The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast AsiaReligions of IndiaEarly Buddhist Shrines Hindu Temples4. Traditional Architecture of China and JapanChinese Architectural Principles Principles of City Planning Houses and Gardens Japanese Temple Architecture Japanese Houses and CastlesZen Buddhist Architecture and Its Derivatives5. The Roman WorldEtruscan ImprintsThe RomansBuilding Techniques and Materials City Planning Temples Public Buildings Residences6. Early Christian and Byzantine ArchitectureEarly Christian Basilicas Martyria, Baptisteries, and Mausolea Byzantine Basilicas and Domed Basilicas Centrally Planned Byzantine Churches Churches in Russia7. Islamic ArchitectureEarly Shrines and Palaces Conception of the Mosque Regional Variations in Mosque Design TombsHouses and Urban PatternsThe Palace and the Garden8. Early Medieval and Romanesque ArchitectureCarolingian Architecture Viking ArchitectureEarly Romanesque Architecture Romanesque Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire Pilgrimage Road ChurchesThe Order of Cluny Aquitaine and Provence Cistercian Monasteries Norman Architecture9. Gothic ArchitectureEarly Gothic High Gothic English Gothic German, Czech, and Italian Gothic Medieval Construction Medieval Houses and Castles Medieval Cities10. Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-Columbian AmericasNorth AmericaMexico and Central AmericaSouth America: The Andean WorldAfrica11. Renaissance ArchitectureFilippo Brunelleschi Michelozzo Bartolomeo and the Palazzo MediciLeone Battista Alberti Other Renaissance City Plans 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 England12. Baroque ArchitectureThe 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 Architecture to Northern Italy The Baroque in Central Europe The Baroque in France Christopher Wren and the Baroque in England Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John VanBrugh, and James Gibbs13. The Eighteenth CenturyThe English Neo-Palladians The Return to Antiquity Robert Adam and William Chambers Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux French Architects and the Aggrandizement of the State Designs by the PensionnairesFrench Architectural Education and the Ecole de Beaux Arts The Challenge of the Industrial Revolution Romanticism and the Picturesque The Romantic Landscape Picturesque Buildings14. Nineteenth Century DevelopmentsNeo-Classicism The Gothic Revival The Ecole des Beaux-Arts Developments in SteelArchitectural Applications of Iron and Steel ConstructionSkeletal Construction in Concrete and Wood The Arts and Crafts Movement Art Nouveau The Viennese Secession The Search for an American Style15. The Twentieth Century and ModernismThe Idea of a Modern Architecture Adolf Loos The Modern MastersFrank 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 Corbusier Walter GropiusLudwig 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 CorbusierThe Continuation of Traditional Architecture16. Modernisms in the Mid- and Late-Twentieth CenturyAlvar Aalto Eero Saarinen and His OfficeLouis I. Kahn Robert Venturi’s Radical Counter-Proposal to Modernism Philip Johnson Charles Moore Michael Graves Robert A. M. SternDeconstruction Perseverance of the Classical TraditionModern RegionalismModernism and JapanForm-Making in the United StatesForm-Making ElsewhereEuropean Architecture and TechnologySustainable Design
Author comments
Michael Fazio is an architect and architectural historian. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Auburn University, a Master of Architecture Degree from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University. He practices architecture in the southeast region, most often as a preservation consultant preparing historic structures reports. He teaches architectural design studios and architectural history in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He is also an actively publishing scholar whose articles have appeared in the Society of Architectural Historians Journal, Arris (the journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians), and the Journal of Architectural Education. His book (with co-author Patrick Snadon of the University of Cincinnati), Inventing the American House: the Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was published in 2003 by The Johns Hopkins University Press and was accompanied by an exhibition at The Octagon and Decatur House in Washington, D.C.
Marian Moffett earned a B.Arch. at North Carolina State University (1971) and the M.Arch. and PhD. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973 and 1975, respectively). She taught architectural history at he University of Tennessee from 1975 until her death in 2004 where she collaborated with Lawrence Wodehouse in producing exhibitions and catalogs on the architecture of the Tennessee Valley Authority and cantilever barns, as well as co-authoring A History of Western Architecture and East Tennessee Cantilever Barns. Her research included work on wooden architecture in Eastern Europe and town planning in Tennessee. She was active with the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and has served as President of the UT Faculty Senate and as an academic administrator in the Office of the Provost.
Lawrence Wodehouse was an Architecture professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1979 to 1993. Wodehouse worked as a professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York prior to coming to the University of Tennessee. Lawrence Wodehouse received his master's degree from Cornell in 1963 and his Ph.D. from St. Andrews University in 1980. His major research concentrations have been in 19th and 20th century architecture and also the vernacular architecture of East Tennessee. He has coauthored two books with Marian Moffett, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, and also Built for the People of the United States: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture. Lawrence Wodehouse retired in the spring of 1993 and died in 2002.
