An edition of A global history of architecture
(2006)
A global history of architecture
by Frank Ching
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"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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Table of Contents
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
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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 Scandanavia
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.
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