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720 p. : ill. (some col.) Contents: Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The classical foundation : Greek, Hellenistic, Roman -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian and Romanesque -- The Gothic experiment -- Renaissance harmony -- Baroque expansion -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The nineteenth-century -- Art nouveau -- The twentieth century -- The twenty-first century Summary: The history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. Emphasises the ongoing vitality of the classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth-century New York. This fifth edition has been expanded to bring the story of western architecture right up to date and includes a separate final chapter on twenty-first century developments Previous ed.: 2005