Western architecture : from ancient Greece to the present
World of art
World of art.
Prologue: laying the foundations: Greece and Rome: The rule of the orders ; The urban setting ; Rome: the heir of Greece ; Vitruvius: a text for the future -- The Christian legacy of Rome: Constantine and the new Rome ; The Byzantine achievement ; The Byzantine legacy ; Western Europe: darkness before dawn -- Beginning again: Carolingian and Romanesque: The Carolingian Renaissance to c.1000 ; Germany: the Imperial lands ; France: diversity in unity ; The Normans in Britain ; Romanesque in the south: Italy and Spain -- The Gothic centuries: How Gothic began ; The first Gothic century: France, 1150-1250 ; Gothic England ; How Gothic ended ; Secular and domestic -- The Renaissance: ancient Rome "reborn": Florence: the early Renaissance ; Rome: the High Renaissance ; The problem of Mannerism ; A developing Renaissance ; The Renaissance outside Italy: Eastern and Central Europe ; England, France and Spain: problems of adaptation -- Baroque and anti-Baroque: Baroque in Italy: the seed-bed ; Central and Eastern Europe: the flowering ; Spain, Portugal and Latin America: the exotic harvest ; France: a special case ; Flanders and the Netherlands ; England and North America -- The return of classicism: Phases of classicism: from Palladio to the Revolution ; Palaces, ministries and the Neoclassical city ; Privileged domesticity ; Culture and commerece ; Classicism and Christianity ; Four architectural protraits -- "In what style shall we build?": Why Neo-Gothic? ; Architecture and morality ; Revivals and survivals ; The new art ; Houses and homes -- After style, modernism: Iron, glass and honesty ; The doctrine of Modernism ; Modernism and national character ; Alternatives to Modernism ; Three nonconformists -- After modernism, style: The legacy of Modernism ; Ingredients of Post-Modernism ; Variety and scale ; Present dilemmas
