Part 1: Background; Prehistoric; Egypt; The ancient near East;
Early Asian culture; Greece; The hellenistic kingdoms; Part 2:
Background; Prehistoric; Rome and the Roman Empire; The Byzantine
Empire; Early Russia; Early Medieval and Romanesque; Gothic; Part
3: Background; Seleucid, Parthian, Sasanian, Hellenistic; Umayyad,
Abbasid and Spain until the Fall; Timurid, Seljuk and pre-Moghul
India; Safavid Persia, the Ottoman Empire and Moghul India;
Vernacular Building and the Paradise Garden; Part 4: Background;
Africa; The Americas; China; Japan; South Asia; South East Asia;
Part 5: Background; Italy; France, Spain and Portugal; Austria,
Germany and Central Europe; The Low Countries and Britain; Russia
and Scandinavia; Post Renaissance Europe;
Part 6: Background; Africa; The Americas; China; Japan; South East
Asia; Indian Subcontinent; Australasia; Part 7: Background; Western
Europe 1900-45; Western Europe 1945-95; Eastern Europe; Russia;
Middle East; Africa; N America 1900-50; North America 1950-95;
Central and S America; China; Japan; S E Asia; Hong Kong and Macau;
Indian Subcontinent; Oceania.
*Winner of the International Architecture Book Award, The American
Institute of Architects Book of the Century.
*THE source book for the historical development of architecture
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