History of Architecture (H/C)

The 20Th Edition of "Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture" is the First Major Work of History to Include an Overview of the Architectural Achievements of the 20Th Century. Banister Fletcher Has Been the Standard One Volume Architectural History for Over 100 Years and Continues to Give a Concise and Factual Account of World Architecture From the Earliest Times. in This Twentieth and Centenary Edition, Edited by Dan Cruickshank With Three Consultant Editors and Fourteen New Contributors, Chapters Have Been Recast and Expanded and a Third of the Text is New. There Are New Chapters on the Twentieth-Century Architecture of the Middle East (Including Israel), South-East Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian Subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. the Chapter on Traditional Architecture of India Has Been Rewritten and the Section on Traditional Chinese Architecture Has Been Expanded, Both With New Specially Commissioned Drawings. the Ar