The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of

This survey of western architecture is divided into two parts. The first deals with the basic properties of architecture, examining a building's structure and a

Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.

Using detailed analyses of individual buildings as a point of departure, Professor Buchwald here examines various approaches to Byzantine architectural forms, a