Architecture 101 : from Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an essential guide to building styles and materials / Nicole Bridge

Includes index.

Introduction -- The stone age -- Megalithic construction – Mesopotamia – Babylon -- Ancient Egypt -- Mycenaean civilization -- Classical Greece – The Hellenistic age -- Hindu temples -- ancient Rome -- The roman empire -- Byzantine churches -- Romanesque -- Islam -- China -- Japanese architecture -- Russian architecture -- Monasteries -- Native people of North America -- Early gothic -- High gothic -- The early renaissance -- the high renaissance -- Andrea Palladio -- Pre-Columbian America. Baroque style -- Sir Christopher Wren -- Rococo -- Romanticism and picturesque -- neoclassicism -- neoclassicism in Russia -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- Arts and crafts -- Art nouveau -- Beaux arts -- Gothic revival -- Frank Lloyd Wright. -- Louis Henry Sullivan. -- Skyscrapers -- art deco -- The Bauhaus -- Toward a new architecture. -- Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe -- deconstruction -- Frank Gehry -- Aldo Rossi -- Bridges -- Mid-century modern -- Norman Foster. – Green architecture -- Index

"Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore the world's greatest structures." -- Back cover