1. The first American architecture: ceremonial enclosures and homes : A vast and varied continent : Geological features ; Bioclimatic zones

The first Americans : Archaic and prehistoric Eastern Woodland ; Archaic and prehistoric Plains culture ; Archaic and prehistoric Western desert cultures

The historical or post-contact cultures : Eastern Woodland region ; Southeast Woodland region ; Great Plains region ; Columbia River Plateau ; Pacific Coast region ; California region ; Desert Southwest region

Reinvigorated architecture for a new millennium

2. Europeans in the new world, 1600-1700: transplanted vernaculars : Spanish settlements

French settlements

Swedish settlement

Dutch settlements

English settlements : New England ; The Mid-Atlantic English colonies ; The Southern English colonies

Town planning in the seventeenth century

3. In the latest fashion, 1690-1785: Georgian architecture and vernacular traditions : Georgian colonial town planning

Early Georgian architecture, 1690-1750 : Southern Tidewater colonies ; Middle colonies ; Northern colonies ; Early Georgian churches and public buildings

Late Georgian architecture, 1750-1785 : Northern colonies ; Middle colonies ; Furniture and interior design ; Southern colonies ; Late Georgian churches and public buildings ; Gentlemen-amateurs and builder-designers ; Peter Harrison ; Vernacular traditions

4. A new architecture for a new nation, 1785-1820: searching for symbols of democracy : Eclecticism

Planning the national capitol

Samuel McIntire

Charles Bulfinch

Asher Benjamin

Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Other influences and émigré architects

Thomas Jefferson

American urban growth

Trans-Appalachian development and vernacular architecture

5. Appropriation and innovation, 1820-1865: images of the past, visions of the future : The Greek revival : Greek revival temple houses ; Greek revival vernacular ; State capitols ; The United States Capitol expanded ; Grecian public buildings

The Gothic revival : Gothic revival houses

A miscellany of historic styles : Romanesque ; Early Medieval ; Egyptian ; Renaissance ; The Italian villa and the Italianate style

Commercial and industrial building : The impact of industry and the exploitation of cast iron

The octagon style

Urban growth : Urban open space: the parks movement ; The appearance of the suburb

Vernacular building

In search of an American architecture.

6. Architecture in the age of energy and enterprise, 1865-1885: parvenu taste in an expanding economy : Architectural education

Creative eclecticism

Second Empire Baroque

High Victorian Gothic

Frank Furness

Richard Morris Hunt

Industry buildings and housing : Pullman, Illinois

Model urban tenements

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Public Parks Movement

American urban growth, 1865-1885

The emergence of American architectural publishing

The Centennial Exposition, 1876

Suburban and country residences : The Eastlake style ; The stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The shingle style

Transportation and the impact of technology : The high-rise office building

Henry Hobson Richardson

7. The architecture of the American city and suburb, 1885-1915: the search for order : Women and the American architectural profession

The impact of the École des Beaux-arts

Commercial architecture: the invention of the office skyscraper : William Le Baron Jenney ; Burnham and Roat ; Adler and Sullivan ; Holabird and Roche ; Influence of Chicago architects: the Chicago School ; The New York skyscraper

Classicism and the search for order : Richard Morris Hunt ; McKim, Mead & White

American parallels to Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Prairie School

The San Francisco Bay area tradition : Greene & Greene ; Irving Gill

Urban planning : The World's Columbian Exposition ; The City Beautiful Movement

Housing reform : Urban tenements ; Industrial workers' communities

Vernacular architecture : Barns and farmhouses

8. Nostalgia and the avant-garde, 1915-1940: architecture for a new century : The First World War and industrial housing

The suburb and the automobile : Early automobile suburbs

The architecture of reassurance: historicism in the Jazz Age : Suburban houses ; The "period house" ; The colonial revival and the creation of "Colonial Williamsburg" ; Ralph Adams Cram and the Gothic revival

Movie palaces: the architecture of illusion

American modernism : Bertram Goodhue ; Albert Kahn ; Paul Philippe Cret

Skyscrapers, 1915-1940 : The "traditional" skyscraper ; The modern skyscraper

Art Deco and Moderne : The Art Deco skyscraper ; Rockefeller Center

Frank Lloyd Wright, the middle years

Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra

Urban planning and housing

The Great Depression.

9. The emergence of American Modernism, 1940-1973: social agenda or the latest aesthetic? : Housing war workers

Modernism : The corporate office tower ; Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon ; Lever House, New York City ; Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago ; Seagram Building ; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; The initial giant office towers ; Other kinds of forms: the domes of Buckminster Fuller

The modern house : Two horizontal glass boxes

Form follows form : Guggenheim Museum ; Eero Saarinen

Silence and light: the architecture of Louis I. Kahn

Heroic expressionism

Alvar Aalto in America

Urbanism: cities and suburbs ; American automobile culture ; Freeways ; Levittown ; Shopping centers

Urban renewal : Soulless social amelioration: the saga of public housing ; Urban renewal at work: Lincoln Center, New York City ; Urban renewal at work: plazas ; Internal public spaces ; Repopulating the city centers ; New towns

Preservation: the uses of the past

10. Late modernism and alternatives, 1972-2001 : Rethinking modernism and its shortcomings : The failures of Modernism

Historic preservation

Contextualism

The beginnings of postmodernism : Robert Venturi and Charles Moore ; Whites and grays

Postmodern classicism : Ironic classicism ; Latent classicism ; Fundamentalist classicism ; Canonic or archaeological classicism ; Modern traditionalism

Late expressionist/heroic modernism :- Johnson & Burgee ; Helmut Jahn ; César Pelli ; Richard Meier

Frank Gehry and late expressionism : Early years ; Guggenheim Bilbao ; Gehry and new museums

Deconstructivism

Regionalism

The cult of the high-profile architect

The 1980s and 1990s: a public architecture of self-absorption : Urban and suburban housing ; The new urbanism begins

Making communities

Green architecture: the first shoots

11. Looking at the future: into the twenty-first century : Slender towers

The age of computer architecture

Starchitects/global architects

Architectural activity in the twenty-first century

The long life of traditionalism

Green architecture : LEED standards ; Green roofs ; Green architecture and sustainable environments

Epilogue

Glossary.