The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations. Contents: - The Beginnings of Architecture - The Greek World - The Architecture of Ancient India and Southeast Asia - Traditional Architecture of China and Japan - The Roman World - Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture - Islamic Architecture - Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture - Gothic Architecture - Indigenous Architecture in the Pre-columbian Americas - Renaissance Architecture - Baroque Architecture - The eighteenth century - Nineteenth-Century developments - The Twetieth Century and Modernism - Modernisms in the Mid-and Late Twentieth Century
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