A global perspective on architectural historyfor the first time in one book
Written by a stellar team of architectural educators, this richly illustrated reference is packed with detailed photographs and features drawings by the world-renowned Francis D.K. Ching. This is the first book on architectural history to organize material along a continuous timeline that runs from prehistory to the present. Readers will delight in an engaging examination of the connections, exchanges, contrasts, and influences in the architecture and cultures around the world at specific times in history.
Francis D.K. Ching (Seattle, WA) is the author or coauthor of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics (0-471-20906-6), Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
(0-471-75216-9), and Building Construction Illustrated (0-471-35898-3).
Vikramaditya Prakash, PhD (Seattle, WA) is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture at the University of Washington and author of several academic publications.
Mark M. Jarzombek (Cambridge,
MA) is the Director of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art and Professor of the History of Architecture at MIT and has published several books.
