The Architecture Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Architecture Book is a comprehensive guide to understanding the world's most incredible buildings, covering global scope, packed with facts, charts, timelines, and graphs to help explain core concepts.

With an easy-to-follow text and bold graphics throughout, this book provides a captivating introduction to buildings and the ideas that make them key to history and evolution of our built environment.

Whether you're a novice looking to learn more or an expert wishing to refresh your knowledge, The Architecture Book is the perfect resource for anyone interested in architecture.

Discover the most important ideas, technologies, and movements in the history of architecture and structural engineering, from ancient and classical architecture through Medieval, Gothic, and Renaissance buildings, Baroque and Rococo, to 19th-century emerging modernism and postmodernism and glittering skyscrapers.

With a fresh and vibrant take on the topic, The Architecture Book brings complex concepts to life through eye-catching graphics and diagrams, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in architecture.