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Tables of Contents for A History of Architecture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PART ONE A Place on Earth
The Study of What We Built
3
18
The History of Architecture
3
4
The Total Context of Architecture
7
14
The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe
21
22
The Beginning
21
2
Old Stone Age Architecture
23
1
The Cave at Lascaux
23
3
New Stone Age Architecture
26
6
The Temples of Malta
32
5
Stonehenge
37
6
The Rise of the City: Architecture In Western Asia
43
24
The Urban Revolution
43
1
Stirrings of Urban Consciousness
44
6
The Cities of Mesopotamia
50
17
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt
67
24
The Land of Egypt
67
4
The Burial of Kings
71
8
The Time of the Gods
79
9
Survival of the Egyptian Temple
88
3
Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor
91
24
Asia Minor
91
8
Mycenaeans and Minoans
99
13
The Closing of the Bronze Age
112
3
The Greek Temple and ``Barbarian'' Alternatives
115
22
The Passing of the Bronze Age
115
2
The Emergence of Greece
117
3
The Greek Temple
120
17
Polis and Akropolis
137
24
Athens and Her Empire
137
1
The Shape of the Polis
138
8
Athens---``The Eye of Greece,''
146
15
The Hellenistic Realm
161
30
The New Order
161
7
The Hellenistic Temple
168
2
Religious Settings
170
4
The Noble Metropolis
174
17
Rome: Caput Mundi
191
26
Early Roman Architecture
191
3
Components of a Roman Town: Pompeii
194
13
The Look of Empire: Rome at the Millennium
207
10
The World at Large: Roman Concurrences
217
28
The Roman Cosmos
217
2
Beyond the Empire
219
6
The Other Ancient World
225
8
A Continent Alone
233
12
PART TWO Measuring Up
The Triumph of Christ
245
24
The Turning Point: Third-Century Rome
245
8
Housing the Kingdom of Heaven
253
7
The Primacy of Constantinople
260
9
The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages
269
26
The Decline of the West
269
5
Carolingian Restoration
274
10
The Empire of Muhammed
284
11
The Birth of Nations: Europe After Charles
295
28
Europe from Charles to Otto
295
3
The Eleventh Century
298
7
The Romanesque Church
305
9
Italian Counterpoint
314
9
The French Manner
323
26
The Romanesque and Opus Modernum
323
10
Chartres
333
8
Gothic Abroad
341
8
The Urbanization of Europe, 1100--1300
349
26
The City Returns
349
6
Bourgeois Architecture, Public and Private
355
8
An Urban Contrast: Cario and Florence
363
12
Edges of Medievalism
375
28
Florence at the Crossroads
375
1
The City Center
376
10
Europe in the Fourteenth Century
386
8
Aging Traditions Abroad
394
9
The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad
403
30
The First Advance
403
9
The Prince and the People: Patronage in Northern Italy
412
16
The Italianate Craze
428
5
Spain and the New World
433
20
The American Scene
433
9
The Spanish Scene
442
11
Istanbul and Venice
453
32
A Turkish Renaissance
454
14
The Consummation of Venice
468
17
The Popes as Planners: Rome, 1450--1650
485
26
Making the City Whole
485
11
``A Pasture for the Bodily Senses,''
496
15
Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture, 1600--1750
511
36
The Roman Baroque
511
16
France: The Grand Siecle
527
11
The Face of Protestantism
538
9
PART THREE The Search for Self
Architecture for a New World
547
24
Europe in Ferment
547
6
A World to Choose From
553
13
Form and Reform
566
5
Architectural Art and the Landscape Of Industry, 1800--1850
571
34
A Matter of Styles
571
23
The Iron Age
594
11
The American Experience
605
30
Colonial Dependence
607
10
Architecture for a Nation
617
12
Greece for All Seasons
629
6
Victorian Environments
635
34
The Gilded Age
635
12
Victorian America
647
22
The Trials of Modernism
669
26
Urban Choices
669
11
Towards a Twentieth-Century Architecture
680
15
Architecture and the State: Interwar Years
695
26
The 1920s
695
12
The Other Side
707
10
The Language of Power
717
4
The Ends of Modernism
721
24
Reconstruction
721
3
Postwar America
724
21
Designing the Fin-De-Siecle
745
18
Success and Failure
745
3
Recovering the Past
748
15
Illustration Credits
763
4
Glossary
767
9
Index
776