Table of Contents

Prologue - laying the foundations - Greece and Rome; the Christian legacy of Rome; beginning again - Carolingian and Romanesque; the Gothic centuries; the Renaissance - ancient Rome reborn; Baroque and anti-Baroque; the return of classicism; "in what style shall we build?"; after style, modernism; epilogue - after modernism, style.

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An original and far-reaching survey of the history of architecture in Europe and North America, from ancient Greece to the present

About the Author

Ian Sutton (1929-2010) was a much-loved editor and distinguished writer on architecture.