Overview

Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comparative maps, a glossary, and text boxes devoted to social factors and specific issues in technology and philosophy. The result is a compendious method for understanding and appreciating the history, cultural significance, beauty, and diversity of architecture from around the world.The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.New to This Edition: An enhanced visual program features 235 new images and photographs, including interior shots and improved maps and building plansAn extended box program explores new contextual topics like gender and folklore in addition to the prior edition's coverage of religion, philosophy, culture, and technologyAn expanded open-access Companion Website including an array of popular learning resources like chapter summaries, self exams, and Google Maps links to key structuresA list of UNESCO world heritage sites referenced in the book

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Author:   Richard Ingersoll (, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   1.996kg
ISBN:  

9780190646455

ISBN 10:   0190646454
Pages:   1008
Publication Date:   29 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1 Prehistory1.1 ARCHITECTURE as a SECOND NATURE: Sacred Caves and Primitive Huts 1.2 VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: A Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, and Stones 1.3 MEGALITHS and STONE CIRCLES: Building as Memory Chapter 2 3000-1500 bce2.1 CITIES of MESOPOTAMIA: Mud, Gods, and Urbanism 2.2 OLD KINGDOM EGYPT: Architecture for the Afterlife 2.3 THE INDUS VALLEY: Cities without MonumentsChapter 3 1500-750 bce3.1 THE AEGEAN in the BRONZE AGE: Labyrinths and Cyclopean Walls 3.2 NEW KINGDOM EGYPT: Axial Temples and Colossal Statues 3.3 BIBLICAL JERUSALEM: Architecture and Memory Chapter 4 700-200 bce4.1 SOUTHWEST ASIA and ACHAEMENID PERSIA: A Cycle of Empires 4.2 THE GREEK CITY-STATE: Classical Architecture at the Acropolis and the Agora 4.3 MAURYAN INDIA: Emblems of Peace in Stone Chapter 5 200 bce-300 ce5.1 ANCIENT ROME: Governing through Architecture 5.2 ANCIENT CHINA: The Pivot of the Cosmos in Mud and Wood 5.3 ANCIENT MEXICO: Pyramids and Sacrifice Chapter 6 300-6006.1 EARLY CHRISTIAN ITALY: The Inward Orientation of the Church 6.2 BYZANTIUM: The Dome as an Act of Faith 6.3 GUPTA INDIA: Rock-Cut Architecture and the Art of Subtraction Chapter 7 600-8007.1 THE SPREAD of ISLAM: Hypostyle Mosques and Soaring Minarets 7.2 TANG CHINA and EAST ASIA: Gridded Capitals and Lofty Pagodas 7.3 THE MAYA of CENTRAL AMERICA: Reproducing the Mountain of Creation Chapter 8 800-12008.1 SOUTHEAST ASIA and SOUTHERN INDIA: Lived-in Models of Cosmic Order 8.2 ISLAMIC SPAIN and MOROCCO: Interlacing Forms in al-Andalus and the Maghreb 8.3 WESTERN EUROPE after the ROMAN EMPIRE: Monks, Knights, and PilgrimsChapter 9 1200-13509.1 THE MERCANTILE MEDITERRANEAN: New Facades for Old Cities9.2 GOTHIC EUROPE: The Fabric of the Great Cathedrals9.3 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Living ArchitectureChapter 10 1350-150010.1 HUMANIST ITALY: Public Spaces and Private Palaces of the Renaissance10.2 EASTERN EUROPE: From the Spirit of Wood to the Conventions of Masonry10.3 PRE-CONTACT AMERICA: Empires of the SunChapter 11 1500-160011.1 CHINA after 1000: The Mandate of Heaven Made to Last 11.2 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A Culture of Local Symmetries 11.3 PAPAL ROME: The Fountainhead of Renaissance Classicism Chapter 12 1600-170012.1 ISLAMIC REALMS in CENTRAL ASIA: The Dome of Power, the Garden of Paradise 12.2 CATHOLIC EUROPE: The Settings of Absolutism 12.3 EDO JAPAN: Isolation from the World, Integration with NatureChapter 13 1700-175013.1 PROTESTANT EUROPE: An Architecture of Essentials13.2 THE DIFFUSION of the BAROQUE: Life as Theater13.3 THE AMERICAN COLONIES: Domination and Liberty on the GridChapter 14 1750-180014.1 THE PICTURESQUE: Landscapes of the Informal, the Exotic, and the Sublime14.2 ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE: Theory, Revolution, and Architecture14.3 INDUSTRY AND PUNISHMENT: Factories and Warehouses, Prisons and WorkhousesChapter 15 1800-185015.1 AFTER the REVOLUTION: The Ideological Uses of Neoclassicism 15.2 THE GOTHIC REVIVAL: Antimodern and Proto-Nationalist 15.3 THE NEW IRON AGE: The Spread of Metal and Glass Technologies Chapter 16 1850-189016.1 THE RISE of the METROPOLIS: Urbanism and the New Scale of Architecture 16.2 LIFESTYLES and HOUSE FORM: Apartments, Row Houses, Bungalows, and Utopias16.3 THE BEAUX-ARTS: Eclecticism and Professionalism Chapter 17 1890-192017.1 ARTS and CRAFTS: Design and the Dignity of Labor 17.2 THE TWILIGHT of WESTERN IMPERIALISM: Monuments to the White Man's Burden 17.3 ART NOUVEAU and the SEARCH for MODERN FORM: Architecture without Precedents Chapter 18 1920-194018.1 AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS and AUTOMOBILES: Mass Production Meets Individualism 18.2 EUROPEAN MODERNISMS: A Dialogue between Form and Function 18.3 TOTALITARIAN SETTINGS in MODERN EUROPE: Architecture as PropagandaChapter 19 1940-197019.1 THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE and the ADVENT of the WELFARE STATE: Modernism Becomes Conventional 19.2 THE BIRTH of the THIRD WORLD: Experiments in Postcolonial Architecture 19.3 THE EXPRESSIONIST RESURGENCE: Hybrids amid Mass Culture Chapter 20 After 197020.1 POSTMODERN MOVEMENTS: Populism, Radicalism, and Irony 20.2 MULTINATIONAL PRACTICE: Globalization, High Tech, and Hypertecture 20.3 TOWARD an ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW: Architecture and the Anthropocene Glossary Credits Index

Reviews

Ingersoll has taken up the difficult challenge of updating Kostof's landmark text. The resulting text is comprehensive, inclusive, and insightful. --Mark Hinchman, College of Architecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Ingersoll writes beautifully about the relationship among architecture, city development, and politics, weaving an instructive yet provocative narrative. --Nora Laos, G.D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston Ingersoll has taken up the difficult challenge of updating Kostof's landmark text. The resulting text is comprehensive, inclusive, and insightful. --Mark Hinchman, College of Architecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Ingersoll writes beautifully about the relationship among architecture, city development, and politics, weaving an instructive yet provocative narrative. --Nora Laos, G.D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston

""This book offers a rigorous and multicultural understanding of the chronological time frame. It has a great value, especially in the way it historically addresses the importance of both vernacular and indigenous architectural production."" --Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University""World Architecture, Second Edition, is the first text to offer both the required global coverage and the rigor that I apply in the classroom. It allows me to teach the class along roughly chronological lines without imposing a western narrative on the entire history of architecture."" --Julia Walker, Binghamton University

I am overall very satisfied with the book, I have used other text books before and found them either too encyclopedic or too summarized. This book exhibits a great balance of in-depth information and overview. I would and have highly recommended it to colleagues. --Anne-Catrin Schultz, Wentworth Institute of Technology This book offers a rigorous and multicultural understanding of the chronological time frame. It has a great value, especially in the way it historically addresses the importance of both vernacular and indigenous architectural production. --Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University World Architecture, Second Edition, is the first text to offer both the required global coverage and the rigor that I apply in the classroom. It allows me to teach the class along roughly chronological lines without imposing a western narrative on the entire history of architecture. --Julia Walker, Binghamton University

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Richard Ingersoll teaches courses in Renaissance and contemporary art, architecture, and urbanism at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.

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