A global history of architecture / Francis D.K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-777) and index.

3500 BCE -- Beginnings of China's civilization -- Early Indus settlements -- Predynastic Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- European megalithic tombs -- 2500 BCE -- Indus Ghaggar-Hakra civilization -- Early empires of Mesopotamia -- Egypt: the Old Kingdom -- Megalithic temples of Malta -- Stonehenge -- First civilizations of the Americas -- 1500 BCE -- Egypt: the New Kingdom -- Hittite Empire -- Minoan civilization -- Mycenaean civilization -- Civilization of the High Andes -- Poverty Point -- Shang Dynasty China -- 800 BCE -- The Olmecs -- Chavin de Huántar -- Zhou Dynasty China -- Varanasi: the Aryan conquest -- Etruscan civilization -- Greece: the geometric period -- Temple of Solomon -- Kingdom of Kush -- Neo-Assyrian Empire -- 400 BCE -- Achaemenid Dynasty -- Classical Greece -- Early Hellenic Age -- Advent of Bhuddism -- China: the Warring States period -- Late Olmec Centers -- 0 -- Republican Rome -- Augustan Rome -- Post-Augustan Rome -- Imperial Rome -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Taxila: the Gandharan Cosmopolis -- Qin Dynasty China -- Shaft tombs of Teuchitlán -- 200 CE -- Roman Empire -- Zoroastrian fire temples -- Buddhism of the Satvahanas -- The Kushan -- Han China -- The Moche and Nazca civilizations -- Teotihuacán -- Ohio's Hopewell Mounds -- 400 CE -- Hindu Renaissance -- Kushans of Bamiyan -- Establishment of Chinese Buddhism -- Emergence of Christianity -- Post-Constantinian age -- Zapotecs of Oaxaca -- Kofun period: Japan -- 600 CE -- Maya of the Yucatan -- Tiwanaku -- Age of Justinian -- Armenian architecture -- Rise of the temple kingdoms -- The Sui and Tang dynasties -- Nara period: Japan -- 800 CE -- Chang-an, the Tang capitol -- Korean Buddhism -- South Asian Hindu-Buddhism -- Indonesia at a crossroads -- Hindu kingdoms of Cambodia -- Construction in Southeast Asia -- Rise of Islam -- Carolingian Empire -- Byzantine Empire -- Pueblo Bonito -- Maya city-states -- 1000 -- Rise of Rajput kingdoms -- Song Dynasty China -- Pure-Land Buddhism -- Seljuk Turks -- The Fatimids -- Almoravid Dynasty -- Byzantine revival -- Ottonian Germany -- The Normans -- Pilgrimage churches -- Italian city-states -- Medieval Scandinavia -- Kievan Russia -- Mayan Uxmal -- Native Americans of Cahokia -- 1200 -- Khmer Vrah Vishnulok -- Kingdom of Pagan -- Kamakura Japan -- Southern Song Dynasty -- Delhi Sultanate -- The Hoysalas -- African kingdoms -- Europe: the High Middle Ages -- Republic of Novgorod -- Nasrid Sultanate -- Toltec Empire -- 1400 --The Mexica: Tenochtitlan -- Nomadic invaders -- Ming Dynasty China -- Joseon Dynasty -- Muromachi Japan -- Timurid Dynasty -- The Deccan sultanates -- Ottoman Empire -- Mamluk Sultanate -- Republic of Venice -- Italian Renaissance -- French chateaux -- 1600 -- Tokugawa Shogunate -- Voyages of Zheng He -- The Mughals -- Spanish conquest of America -- Italian High Renaissance -- Place Royale -- Elizabethan England -- The Kremlin's new churches -- Baroque Italy -- The Dogons of Mali -- Architecture of the Eurasian power bloc -- 1700 -- Colonialism -- The French culture of empire -- England: House of Stuart -- Spread of the baroque -- Georgian architecture -- Qing Dynasty China -- Edo and the Kyoto Odoi -- Choson Dynasty -- Nayaks of Madurai -- The Mallas of Nepal -- End of the Mughals -- 1800 -- Qianlong Emperor -- Neo-classicism -- Japan: the Edo Period -- Romantic nationalism -- Shakers -- Greek Revival -- Synagogues -- Viollet le Duc -- Wat Pra Kaeow -- 1900 -- London Metropolitan Board of Works -- World's Fairs -- National museums -- Colonial Bombay -- École des beaux-arts -- Arts and crafts movement -- The Indo-Saracenic -- Dutch Kampung -- Shingle style -- The City Beautiful movement -- Rise of professionalism -- Skyscrapers -- Art nouveau -- International beaux arts -- Colonial Africa -- The Deutsche Werkbund -- Expressionism -- De Stijl -- Russian constructivism -- Bauhaus -- 1950 -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- The postmodern museum -- The postmodern postcolonial world -- Globalization.

"Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by drawings from the renowned Frank Ching as well as photographs."--BOOK JACKET.

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