Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Ancient Architecture -- Egypt -- Sumer -- Greece -- The "Orientalizing" Period -- High Classical Period -- Parthenon -- Hellenistic Period -- Roman and Early Christian Architecture -- Pagan Rome -- Christian Rome -- Chapter Two: Byzantine Architecture -- The Early Byzantine Period (330-726) -- The Pendentive and Squinch -- Hagia Sophia -- The Iconoclastic Age (726-843) -- The Middle Byzantine Period (843-1204) -- The Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453) -- Chapter Three: Architecture in the Middle Ages: The Christian West -- Romanesque -- Roman Foundations -- Cloister -- Churches -- Fortifications -- Gothic -- Chartres Cathedral -- The End of Gothic -- Chapter Four: Renaissance Architecture -- Proportion and Beauty -- Early Renaissance (1401-95) -- High Renaissance (1495-1520) -- Donato Bramante -- Late Renaissance and Italian Mannerism (1520-1600) -- Palazzo Del Te -- Chapter Five: Baroque and Rococo -- Historical Context -- Italy -- Spain -- France -- Palace of Versailles -- Holy Roman Empire -- England -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- North America -- Chapter Six: Trends in Architecture from c. 1750 to 1900 -- Neoclassicism -- Picturesque -- Gothic Revival -- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin -- New Forms -- Technology -- Eiffel Tower -- Art Nouveau -- Chapter Seven: Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries -- The Modernist Movement -- Europe -- The United States -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- After World War II -- Postmodernism -- Deconstruction -- Millennial Trends -- Frank O. Gehry -- Green Architecture -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.