Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism: the Western tradition

Abstract

History of buildings, groups of buildings, the styles in which they were built, and the architects responsible for them from Stonehenge to the present.

Contents

Part One: the ancient world. Architecture before Greece / Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman -- Greece / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Rome / Marvin Trachtenberg. Part two: the middle ages. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Islam and the west / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Gothic architecture / Marvin Trachtenberg. Part three: The Renaissance and the Baroque. The Renaissance/ Isabelle Hyman -- The Baroque/ Isabelle Hyman. Part four: the modern world. The eighteenth century / Marvin Trachtenberg -- The nineteenth century / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Modern architecture / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Second modernism (post-modernism) / Marvin Trachtenberg.