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A magnificently illustrated guide to theglobal history of architecture--updated toinclude the non-western world and worksfrom women

The Second Edition of this historical architecturalguide gives you a deeperknowledge and wider perspective of traditions inarchitecture throughout the world--from prehistoricthrough modern structures. Extensively and beautifullyillustrated, the book includes photos, plans, scales forworld-famous structures such as the Parthenon, Versailles,the Brooklyn Bridge, and many others.

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• 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 Pre-Columbian Americas
• 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 Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century

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CHOICE Review

This second edition, by Fazio (emer., Mississippi State) and Moffett and Wodehouse (both deceased), corrects a blatant imbalance in the coverage of the first (CH, Jan'04, 41-2670) pertaining to architecture since 1950. While the first edition concentrated almost exclusively on American architecture in this period, climaxing in the dramatic work of Frank Gehry, this second edition more judiciously expands coverage to five continents, ending appropriately enough with the newest architectural designs in China. Each chapter contains capsule chronologies, introductions, and conclusions; two new sections add more depth to the coverage of African and Andean architecture. An online learning center is now linked to the text, and location arrows in site plans, a feature taken from the world of computers, provide extremely useful orientation for the photographs. All these changes are contained within the exact same number of pages as the first edition. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. P. Kaufman emeritus, Boston Architectural Center

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Michael Fazio is emeritus professorof architecture at Mississippi State University. He is the authorof The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

Marian Moffett taught architectural history at the Universityof Tennessee. Her publications include A History of WesternArchitecture, and East Tennessee Cantilever Barns.

Lawrence Wodehouse taught architectural history at theUniversity of Dundee and various American universities.