Incluye glosario e índice CONTENIDO: A PLACE ON EARTH. -- The Study of What We Built. -- The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe. -- The Rise of the City: Architecture in Western Asia. -- The Architecture of Ancient Egypt. -- Bronze Age Cities: The Aegean and Asia Minor. -- Greek Temple and "Barbarian" Alternatives. -- Polis and Akropolis. -- The Hellenistic Realm. -- Rome: Caput Mundi. -- The World at Large: Roman Concurrences. -- MEASURING UP. -- The Triumph of Christ. -- The Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages. -- The Birth of Nations: Europe after Charles. -- The French Manner. -- The Urbanization of Europe, 1100-1300. -- Edges of Medievalism. -- The Renaissance: Ideal and Fad. -- Spain and the New World. -- Istanbul and Venice. -- The Popes as Planners: Rome 1450-1650. -- Absolutism and Bourgeoisie: European Architecture 1600-1750. -- THE SEARCH FOR SELF. -- Architecture for a New World. -- Architectural Art and the Landscape of Industry, 1800-1850. -- The American Experience. -- Victorian Environments. -- The Trials of Modernism. -- Architecture and the State: Interwar Years. -- The ends of modernism. -- Designing the Fin-de-Siecle.