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• Winner of Colvin Prize (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain [SAHGB]) 2020 (UK)

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This is a book that deserves to be on the shelf not only of every architect and architecture student, but of anyone who wants to know more about the history of the world. Browsing through its thousands of pages, with their 2,200 illustrations, reveals architecture's unique place as an index of human achievements, priorities, contradictions and identities - a dazzling visual history of world culture. Everyone will find in it new understanding and new pleasures. * Times Higher Education * A hugely impressive enterprise, and an invaluable resource. * Architecture Today * A double delight ... An integral text in any aspiring home-designer's education (it was voted book of the century by the American Institute of Architects in 2000), it looks at the development of the built form over the past 5,500 years. * Monocle * The book's greatly increased range is remarkable, providing an encyclopedic global picture in which every reader will almost certainly find something new ... A contentious classic reinvented for a new generation through previously unheard viewpoints - and not a moment too soon. * RIBA Journal * Book of the Century ... A thundering classic. No serious fan of architecture should be without it -- (of the twentieth edition) * The American Institute of Architects * The bible of architectural history. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Building Magazine * An easy-to-use reference book with all the world's major architecture described, explained and, in many cases, fully illustrated. -- (of the twentieth edition) * B & M Architecture & Design * It will continue its usefulness beyond the years of study and become an additional aid to everyday practice. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Times Higher Education Supplement * It will remain one of the most thumbed tomes in Building Design's office library -- (of the twentieth edition) * Building Design * ...succinct characterization of individual architects and a liveliness of both criticism and description. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Times Educational Supplement * It is such a remarkable book, containing so much detail and so skilfully illustrated, that it is a must for all architectural and surveying offices -- (of the twentieth edition) * ASI Journal * Half the pleasure, as half the volume, of Banister Fletcher is its pictures. The thousands of photographs are, as always in Banister Fletcher, unimprovably fine. -- (of the twentieth edition) * The Times Educational Supplement * The tome has been bought for 100 years by every architectural student who could possibly scrape together the shillings. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Architectural Review * Like its predecessors, this edition will become a standard work and, for preparing it, the editor and his team of authors deserve the gratitude of all lovers of architecture, both now and in the years to come. * Georgian Group Journal *

This is a book that deserves to be on the shelf not only of every architect and architecture student, but of anyone who wants to know more about the history of the world. Browsing through its thousands of pages, with their 2,200 illustrations, reveals architecture's unique place as an index of human achievements, priorities, contradictions and identities - a dazzling visual history of world culture. Everyone will find in it new understanding and new pleasures. * Times Higher Education * A hugely impressive enterprise, and an invaluable resource. * Architecture Today * A double delight ... An integral text in any aspiring home-designer's education (it was voted book of the century by the American Institute of Architects in 2000), it looks at the development of the built form over the past 5,500 years. * Monocle * The book's greatly increased range is remarkable, providing an encyclopedic global picture in which every reader will almost certainly find something new ... A contentious classic reinvented for a new generation through previously unheard viewpoints - and not a moment too soon. * RIBA Journal * Book of the Century ... A thundering classic. No serious fan of architecture should be without it -- (of the twentieth edition) * The American Institute of Architects * The bible of architectural history. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Building Magazine * An easy-to-use reference book with all the world's major architecture described, explained and, in many cases, fully illustrated. -- (of the twentieth edition) * B & M Architecture & Design * It will continue its usefulness beyond the years of study and become an additional aid to everyday practice. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Times Higher Education Supplement * It will remain one of the most thumbed tomes in Building Design's office library -- (of the twentieth edition) * Building Design * ...succinct characterization of individual architects and a liveliness of both criticism and description. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Times Educational Supplement * It is such a remarkable book, containing so much detail and so skilfully illustrated, that it is a must for all architectural and surveying offices -- (of the twentieth edition) * ASI Journal * Half the pleasure, as half the volume, of Banister Fletcher is its pictures. The thousands of photographs are, as always in Banister Fletcher, unimprovably fine. -- (of the twentieth edition) * The Times Educational Supplement * The tome has been bought for 100 years by every architectural student who could possibly scrape together the shillings. -- (of the twentieth edition) * Architectural Review *

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Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, UK. Trained both as an architect and architectural historian, in 2018 he received the RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education. He is also Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

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