Explains and illustrates the structure of fifty of the world's greatest buildings through hundreds of photographs, floor plans, and cross sections, as well as each architect's ...

This lively, accessible guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent ...

Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

Views more than five thousand years of architecture by examining great buildings and monuments from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the Pompidou Centre--built in Paris during ...

This work is a general introduction to architecture told through a narrativeequence of 21 chapters, each charting a stage in the devlopment ofrchitecture. These chapters divide ...