A global history of architecture /

Title:

A global history of architecture /

Author:

Ching, Francis D. K., 1943-

Published:

Hoboken, N.J. : c2011.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Contents:

Early cultures -- Ritual centers -- 3500 BCE -- Beginnings of China's civilization -- Niuheliang ritual center -- Mesopotamia -- Khirokitia -- Grain and metal -- Catal Hüyük -- Early Indus settlements -- Eridu and Uruk -- Pre- and early-dynastic Egypt -- European developments -- 2500 BCE -- The Indus Ghaggar-Hakra civilization -- Mohenjo-Daro -- Early empires of Mesopotamia -- Ziggurat at Ur -- Margiana -- Domestic architecture -- Egypt: the Old Kingdom -- Pyramids at Giza -- Valley Temple of Khafre -- Architecture and food -- Stonehenge -- Megalithic temples of Malta -- First civilizations of the Americas -- Caral -- El Paraiso -- 1500 BCE -- Shang Dynasty China -- The Minoans and Knossos -- Egypt: the New Kingdom -- Karnak -- Abu Simbel -- Egyptian columns -- Egyptian design methods -- Hittite Empire -- Hattusas -- Mycenaean civilization -- Treasury of Atreus -- Ugarit and Mari -- Poverty Point -- Civilization of the High Andes -- Salinas de Chao -- 800 BCE -- Olmecs -- San Lorenzo -- La Venta -- Chavín de Huántar -- Zhou Dynasty China -- The ritual complex -- The Aryan invasion and Varanasi -- The Iron Age -- The Etruscans -- Etruscan religion -- Etruscan temples -- Greece: the geometric period -- Emergence of the Greek temple form -- Temple of Poseidon -- Saba/Sa'abia -- Temple of Solomon -- Kingdom of Kush -- Neo-Assyrian Empire -- Babylon -- 400 BCE -- Achaemenid Dynasty -- Pasargadae -- Greece and the Mediterranean -- The Greek temple -- Greek architecture and language -- Telesterion at Eleusis -- Delphi -- Temple of Apollo at Delpi -- Ionic order -- The Parthenon -- Erectheum -- Athenian propylaea -- The Hellenistic Age -- Delos -- Priene -- Pergamon -- Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos -- Ptolemies -- Temple of Horus -- Temple of Apollo at Didyma -- Mauryan Dynasty -- Asokan pillars -- Barabar Hills caves -- Late Olmec centers -- The early Mayas -- China: the Warring States Period -- Xianyang Palace-- Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi.

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