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ISBN 10: 0190646454
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Author: Richard Ingersoll
Richard Ingersoll’s World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text’s chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comparative maps, a glossary, and text boxes devoted to social factors and specific issues in technology and philosophy. The result is a compendious method for understanding and appreciating the history, cultural significance, beauty, and diversity of architecture from around the world.
World Architecture A Cross Cultural History 2nd Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1 Prehistory
1.1 ARCHITECTURE AS A SECOND NATURE Sacred Caves and Primitive Huts
The Act of Dwelling: Shelter and Symbol
Living Together: Neolithic Settlements in Southwest Asia
1.2 VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE A Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, and Stones
Nomadic Shelter: Tensile Strength in Temporary Dwellings
Building out of Earth
The Typical Structures of Spans
The Wooden Skeleton
Of Stones and Compression
1.3 MEGALITHS AND STONE CIRCLES Building as Memory
Menhirs, Dolmens, and Cairns: To Honor the Dead
Malta: The Roundness of Architecture
Stonehenge: Responding to the Order of the Cosmos
CHAPTER 2 3000–1500 BCE
2.1 CITIES OF MESOPOTAMIAMud, 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
Minoan Crete: The Sacred Realm of the Labyrinth
Mycenae: Cyclopean Walls and Megaron Palaces
Hattusha: The New Landscape of Militarism
NEW KINGDOM EGYPT Axial Temples and Colossal Statues 3.2
Thebes: The Great Temples of the New Kingdom
King/Queen Hatshepsut: The Political Use of Patronage
Luxor and Amarna: Architecture after Hatshepsut
3.3 BIBLICAL JERUSALEMArchitecture and Memory
The City of the Jews and Many Others
Against Architecture: The Rise and Fall of the Temple
CHAPTER 4 700–200 BCE
4.1 SOUTHWEST ASIA AND ACHAEMENID PERSIA A Cycle of Empires
THE GREEK CITY-STATE Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora 4.2
4.3 MAURYAN INDIA Emblems of Peace in Stone
CHAPTER 5 200 BCE–300 CE
5.1 ANCIENT ROME Governing through Architecture
Roma Caput Mundi: A Regime of Architecture
Pompeii: The Architecture of Public Space
Theaters and Baths: Roman Leisure Society
Domus and Insula: Roman Domestic Architecture
Rome of the Emperors: From Brick to Marble
The Grand Projects of Trajan and Hadrian
5.2 ANCIENT CHINA The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood
The Unifcation of China behind the Great Wall
Han Chang’an: Enclosed Urban Types
Chinese Domestic Architecture: Growth by Addition
5.3 ANCIENT MEXICO Pyramids and Sacrifce
Early Mesoamerican Cultures: The Space of Ceremonies
Teotihuacán: City of the Gods
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 Soaring Minarets
Mecca and Medina: The Cities of Muhammad and His Followers
RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, FOLKLORE
The Umayyad Period: Jerusalem and Damascus
CONSTRUCTION, TECHNOLOGY, THEORY
7.2 TANG CHINA AND EAST ASIA Gridded Capitals cand Lofty Pagodas
CONSTRUCTION, TECHNOLOGY, THEORY
Tang Chang’an: The End of the Silk Road
RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, FOLKLORE
The Patronage of Empress Wu
Variations on Tang Urban Types: Korea and Japan
7.3 THE MAYA OF CENTRAL AMERICA Reproducing the Mountain of Creation
Tikal: The Competitive Production of Monuments
RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, FOLKLORE
CONS TRUCTION, TECHNOLOGY, THEORY
The Royal Pyramids of Palenque
Spaces of Assembly in the Yucatán: Uxmal and Chichén Itzá
CHAPTER 8 800–1200
8.1 SOUTHEAST ASIA AND SOUTHERN INDIA Lived-In Models of Cosmic Order
Borobudur: The Mandala Effect
Angkor: Living in a Microcosm
Southern India: The Exalted Scale of Pyramid Temples
Further Reading
ISLAMIC SPAIN AND MOROCCO Interlacing Forms in al-Andalus and the Maghreb 8.2
Cdoba: The Sea of Arches in the Great Mosque
The Maghreb: The Courtyards of the Royal Cities
From the Taifa States to the Gilded Confnement of the Nasrids at the Alhambra
Further Reading
8.3 WESTERN EUROPE AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE Monks, Knights, and Pilgrims
Charlemagne: The Revival of the Roman Empire and the Role of Monasteries
The Norman Invasions: An Architectural Cross-Fertilization
The Pilgrim’s Progress: Rome and Compostela
The Crusades: The Architectural Consequences of Christianity’s Holy War
Further Reading
CHAPTER 9 1200–1350
9.1 THE MERCANTILEMEDITERRANEAN New Facades for Old Cities
GOTHIC EUROPE The Fabric of the Great Cathedrals 9.2
The Spread of Gothic: International yet Local
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
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE A Culture of Local Symmetries 11.2
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
The Dutch Republic: An Alternative to the Grand Manner
Wren’s London: After the Great Fire
The English Country House: Architecture and Ideology
13.2 THE DIFFUSION OF THE BAROQUE Life as Theater
Carlo Fontana and the Diffusion of Roman Baroque in Italy
Central Europe after the Thirty Years’ War: Grandeur beyond One’s Means
The Iberian Metamorphosis of Colonial Gold
13.3 THE AMERICAN COLONIES Domination and Liberty on the Grid
Spanish Cities in the Western Hemisphere: Fulflling the Law of the Indies
The African Diaspora to the Antilles, Brazil, and Beyond
Palladian Plantations in the American South
The Protestant Ideal in New England: A City on a Hill
CHAPTER 14 1750–1800
14.1 THE PICTURESQUE Landscapes of the Informal, the Exotic, and the Sublime
The English Garden and Empirical Thinking
The Picturesque in Architecture and Urbanism
14.2 ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE Theory, Revolution, and Architecture
Meta-architecture: Theory before Practice
The Encyclopedia, a Mandate for Progress
Citizen Architect: From Reform to Revolution
14.3 INDUSTRY AND PUNISHMENT Factories and Warehouses, Prisons and Workhouses
Manchester, Machines, and the Factory System
Building Character: The Birth of the Penitentiary
CHAPTER 15 1800–1850
15.1 AFTER THE REVOLUTION The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism
THE GOTHIC REVIVAL Antimodern and Proto-Nationalist 15.2
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
LIFESTYLES AND HOUSE FORM Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, and Utopias 16.2
16.3 THE BEAUX-ARTS Eclecticism and Professionalism
CHAPTER 17 1890–1920
17.1 ARTS AND CRAFTS Design and the Dignity of Labor
From Medievalizing Guilds to Garden Cities
The German Werkbund: From Heimatstil to Typisierung
The American Craftsman Movement and the California Lifestyle
Further Reading
THE TWILIGHT OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM Monuments to the White Man’s Burden 17.2
Colonial India: British, but also Native
The French in North Africa and Indochina: The Strategy of Associationism
17.3 ART NOUVEAU AND THE SEARCH FOR MODERN FORM Architecture without Precedents
The Newness of Art Nouveau: Exposed Structure, Whiplash Lines, and Social Reform
CHAPTER 18 1920–1940
18.1 AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS AND AUTOMOBILES Mass Production Meets Individualism
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
The Postwar Culture of Planning and the Mandate for Neutrality
When God Was in the Details: The Minimalism of Mies van der Rohe
Reconstruction Europe: New Towns and Social Housing
The Eastern Bloc: From Socialist Realism to the Plattenbau
19.2 THE BIRTH OF THE THIRD WORLD Experiments in Postcolonial Architecture
Latin American Modernism: New Rhythms and a Culture of Resistance
Indian Independence and the Absorption of Modernism
Postcolonial Africa and the False Promises of Modernism
19.3 THE EXPRESSIONIST RESURGENCE Hybrids amid Mass Culture
European Organic Architecture: Between Rationalism and Intuition
Abstract Expressionism: American Misfts
Louis I. Kahn: Servant and Served
CHAPTER 20 After 1970
20.1 POSTMODERN MOVEMENTS Populism, Radicalism, and Irony
People’s Architecture
Radical Architecture: The Call to Nomadism
Postmodernism: The Ironic Return to History
20.2 MULTINATIONAL PRACTICE Globalization, High-Tech, and Hypertecture
Export Architecture in the Golden Age of Museums
High-Tech: Buckminster Fuller’s Progeny
The Architectural Consequences of Petroleum
The Emergence of the Non-Western Architect
20.3 TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW Architecture and the Anthropocene
Land Architecture
Architects Respond to the Ecology Question
Glossary
Credits
Index
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