New York: Watson Gupthill, 2000.

Hardcover. First edition. 4to.; 352 pages; with over 200 full-color illustrations; text clean and bright; tightly bound in pictorial boards with orange, white, and blue lettering on spine and front cover; in very good condition. Original pictorial dust jack with same images as boards; some shelf wear; rubbing along top and bottom edges; slight bump to lower corner; in very good condition. Ten prominent architecture experts take a greatest-hits approach to defining the major movements in Western architectural styles, technologies, and philosophies. Proceeding chronologically from classical Greek and Roman temples through the Romanesque and Gothic eras on to the Renaissance, the baroque, neoclassicism, fin de siècle, and two phases of modernism, contributors highlight 150 structures, many of which will be new to readers, while even the most familiar are rendered fresh by elegant essays that avoid the technical and focus on the human.