Comprises a survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. This text encourages readers to examine the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings. It also discusses artistic, political, social and technological contexts

• Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Architecture
• Chapter 2 :The Greek World
• Chapter 3 : The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia
• Chapter 4: Traditional Architecture of China and Japan
• Chapter 5: The Roman World
• Chapter 6 : Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
• Chapter 7: Islamic Architecture
• Chapter 8 : Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture
• Chapter 9 :Gothic Architecture
• Chapter 10 : Indigenous Architecture in the Americas and Africa
• Chapter 11: Renaissance Architecture
• Chapter 12 : Baroque Architecture
• Chapter 13 : The Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 14 : Nineteenth-Century Developments
• Chapter 15 : The Twentieth Century and Modernism
• Chapter 16 : Modernisms in the Twenty-First Century and beyond
• Glossary
• Bibliography (annotated)
• Picture Credits
• Index