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A Global History of Architecture.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| October 15, 2006 | Soltesz, David | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ching, Francis D.K. & others. A Global History of Architecture. Wiley. 2006. c.832p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-471-26892-5. $75. ARCHITECTURE

A decade after the 100th anniversary of Banister Fletcher's venerable and indispensable A History of Architecture (20th ed.) comes this fresh, one-volume historical encyclopedia of world architecture. Ching (architecture, Univ. of Washington; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order), Mark M. Jarzombek (architecture & art, MIT), and Vikramaditya Prakash (architecture, Univ. of Washington) recast the story of the last 5000 years of building into a simple but brilliantly workable chronological schema of "timecuts," flexible time …

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