Introducing architecture

What is architecture?

The building blocks of architecture

From village to city

Ancient Middle East

Ancient Egypt

The Americas

Central & North America

South America

The classical world

Ancient Greece

Roman architecture

Early Christian & Byzantine architecture

India & Southeast Asia

Indian architecture

Southeast Asia

East Asia

China

Japan & Korea

The Islamic world

The first mosques

Persia & Mughal India

Medieval Europe

Romanesque

Gothic

The Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Renaissance beyond Italy

Baroque & Rococo

Baroque

Rococo

Classical revival

Neo-classicism

Neo-classicism in the United States

The industrial world

The machine age

Gothic revival

Nostalgia & whimsy

The modern world

Modernism

Traditionalism

The contemporary world.