Buildings across Time

by Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse

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Editorial Reviews

This heavily illustrated survey text provides students of both art history and architecture with a worldwide introduction to the history of architecture that is comprehensive and yet accessible. The third edition continues to offer comprehensive coverage in an accessible manner with expanded pedagogy, added social and historical context, and extended coverage of African and Andean architecture, as well as modern designs by women and non-Western architects. .

Customer Reviews

Buildings across time, 2008-09-29
by TR Worthington (Michigan USA)

I'm reading this book as requirement for a history class in an Architecture undergrad program. I'm sure most who will buy this book will read it for the same or a similar reason. I'm only through the first 1/4 of the book. It's full of pictures and descriptions of notable structures in a given time period and well organized chronologically. It seems the authors avoid drawing fully developed conclusions that explain the purpose for many early structures/dwellings. Maybe omitting this type of conjecture keeps things more factual. I get a dose of the "theories" in lectures on the subject, and that makes the reading much more interesting.

Needless Expense, 2008-02-26
by Thomas G. Robbins (Ohio, USA)

I'm one of those "stodgy" old professors (who chose this book as a text before it included the disc and zoomed up in price.) I was unaware until last week that it's produced under another name without the disc, at 40% of the price of this one (Yes, tacky, isn't it?) This book is very good, but it's NOT a good purchase since the identical "A World History of Architecture," can be purchased instead. Same words, far better price. I'm changing texts for future classes.

SAME books, but very different prices, 2008-02-15
by amazon's fan (Stamford, Connecticut)

I AM another testament that this book is TOTALLY the same as the other book "A World History of Architecture," but the prices ARE quite different.

Of course, THANKS to the previous comment and the reply.

My classmates all have this book, while I have the "World History" one, but no differences in the entire content (except the cover design) whatsoever.

Bad CD, 2007-04-01
by Paul S Boyer (Morristown, NJ USA)

This is an interesting book, but is marked down because the CD does not open on the Macintosh, even though it is supposed to be OS X compatible. The publisher provides no work-around to the problem.

Not recommended.

Scamming Students?, 2006-09-28
by LQ (Philadelphia, PA USA)

This book appears to be exactly the same as "A World History of Architecture" (Paperback) by the same authors and available on Amazon for $33.64 without the CD. The number of pages, table of contents, and intro sentence are exactly the same. It seems more than slightly shady to me to sell the exact same book with two different names.

This book is required reading for my Architectural History class and was for sale at my school's bookstore for $100. My stodgy old professor isn't teaching from the CD. I am not giving these people my money, I got my copy at the library.