Chapter 2 3000-1500 bce
2.1 CITIES of MESOPOTAMIA: Mud, Gods, and Urbanism
2.2 OLD KINGDOM EGYPT: Architecture for the Afterlife
2.3 THE INDUS VALLEY: Cities without Monuments

Chapter 3 1500-750 bce
3.1 THE AEGEAN in the BRONZE AGE: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls
3.2 NEW KINGDOM EGYPT: Axial Temples and Colossal Statues
3.3 BIBLICAL JERUSALEM: Architecture and Memory

Chapter 4 700-200 bce
4.1 SOUTHWEST ASIA and ACHAEMENID PERSIA: A Cycle of Empires
4.2 THE GREEK CITY-STATE: Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora
4.3 MAURYAN INDIA: Emblems of Peace in Stone

Chapter 5 200 bce-300 ce
5.1 ANCIENT ROME: Governing through Architecture
5.2 ANCIENT CHINA: The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood
5.3 ANCIENT MEXICO: Pyramids and Sacrifice

Chapter 6 300-600
6.1 EARLY CHRISTIAN ITALY: The Inward Orientation of the Church
6.2 BYZANTIUM: The Dome as an Act of Faith
6.3 GUPTA INDIA: Rock-Cut Architecture and the Art of Subtraction

Chapter 7 600-800
7.1 THE SPREAD of ISLAM: Hypostyle Mosques and Soňaring Minarets
7.2 TANG CHINA and EAST ASIA: Gridded Capitals and Lofty Pagodas
7.3 THE MAYA of CENTRAL AMERICA: Reproducing the Mountain of Creation

Chapter 8 800-1200
8.1 SOUTHEAST ASIA and SOUTHERN INDIA: Lived-in Models of Cosmic Order
8.2 ISLAMIC SPAIN and MOROCCO: Interlacing Forms in al-Andalus and the Maghreb
8.3 WESTERN EUROPE after the ROMAN EMPIRE: Monks, Knights, and Pilgrims

Chapter 9 1200-1350
9.1 THE MERCANTILE MEDITERRANEAN: New Facades for Old Cities
9.2 GOTHIC EUROPE: The Fabric of the Great Cathedrals
9.3 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Living Architecture

Chapter 10 1350-1500
10.1 HUMANIST ITALY: Public Spaces and Private Palaces of the Renaissance
10.2 EASTERN EUROPE: From the Spirit of Wood to the Conventions of Masonry
10.3 PRE-CONTACT AMERICA: Empires of the Sun

Chapter 11 1500-1600
11.1 CHINA after 1000: The Mandate of Heaven Made to Last
11.2 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A Culture of Local Symmetries
11.3 PAPAL ROME: The Fountainhead of Renaissance Classicism

Chapter 12 1600-1700
12.1 ISLAMIC REALMS in CENTRAL ASIA: The Dome of Power, the Garden of Paradise
12.2 CATHOLIC EUROPE: The Settings of Absolutism
12.3 EDO JAPAN: Isolation from the World, Integration with Nature

Chapter 13 1700-1750
13.1 PROTESTANT EUROPE: An Architecture of Essentials
13.2 THE DIFFUSION of the BAROQUE: Life as Theater
13.3 THE AMERICAN COLONIES: Domination and Liberty on the Grid

Chapter 14 1750-1800
14.1 THE PICTURESQUE: Landscapes of the Informal, the Exotic, and the Sublime
14.2 ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE: Theory, Revolution, and Architecture
14.3 INDUSTRY AND PUNISHMENT: Factories and Warehouses, Prisons and Workhouses

Chapter 15 1800-1850
15.1 AFTER the REVOLUTION: The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism
15.2 THE GOTHIC REVIVAL: Antimodern and Proto-Nationalist
15.3 THE NEW IRON AGE: The Spread of Metal and Glass Technologies

Chapter 16 1850-1890
16.1 THE RISE of the METROPOLIS: Urbanism and the New Scale of Architecture
16.2 LIFESTYLES and HOUSE FORM: Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, and Utopias
16.3 THE BEAUX-ARTS: Eclecticism and Professionalism

Chapter 17 1890-1920
17.1 ARTS and CRAFTS: Design and the Dignity of Labor
17.2 THE TWILIGHT of WESTERN IMPERIALISM: Monuments to the White Man’s Burden
17.3 ART NOUVEAU and the SEARCH for MODERN FORM: Architecture without Precedents

Chapter 18 1920-1940
18.1 AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS and AUTOMOBILES: Mass Production Meets Individualism
18.2 EUROPEAN MODERNISMS: A Dialogue between Form and Function
18.3 TOTALITARIAN SETTINGS in MODERN EUROPE: Architecture as Propaganda

Chapter 19 1940-1970
19.1 THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE and the ADVENT of the WELFARE STATE: Modernism Becomes Conventional
19.2 THE BIRTH of the THIRD WORLD: Experiments in Postcolonial Architecture
19.3 THE EXPRESSIONIST RESURGENCE: Hybrids amid Mass Culture

Chapter 20 After 1970
20.1 POSTMODERN MOVEMENTS: Populism, Radicalism, and Irony
20.2 MULTINATIONAL PRATICE: Globalization, High Tech, and Hypertecture
20.3 TOWARD an ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW: Architecture and the Anthropocene

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