Includes index.

Introduction 1. A Fixed Place Under the Sky: The Invention of Architecture -- 2. Out of The Cave: Neolithic Architecture -- 3. Rivers of Cultures: Mesopotamian and Egyptian Architecture -- 4. When the Gods Were Human: Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture -- 5. Frogs Around a Pond: Architecture in Ancient Greece -- 6. In the Tuscan Manner: Etruscan Architecture -- 7. As Many Stars As In The Sky: Roman Architecture -- 8. One True Faith: Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Shinto Architecture -- 9. The Ages in the Middle: Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture -- 10. A Strange Region of the Universe: Gothic Architecture -- 11. Where Freedom Dwells: The City Revisited.

Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of architecture. Complete with 170 full color images, this volume presents architectural and urban examples, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, chronologically and thematically examining contextual issues that provide each period with distinctive expressions. The special features, structural systems, materials and construction technologies are analyzed, as well as how the international community deals with the task of interpreting and preserving certain historical properties. This publication provides professors and students of architecture, art history, historic preservation and related fields with an integrated view of architecture using historical, theoretical and conservation perspectives.