Introducing architecture -- What is architecture? -- The building blocks of architecture -- From village to city -- Ancient Near East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Americas -- Central & North America -- South America -- The classical world -- Classical Greece -- Roman architecture -- Early Christian & Byzantine architecture -- India & Southeast Asia -- Indian architecture -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia -- China -- Japan & Korea -- The Islamic world -- The first mosques -- Persia & Mughal India -- Medieval Europe -- Romanesque -- Gothic -- The Renaissance -- Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance beyond Italy -- Baroque & rococo -- Baroque -- Rococo -- Classical revival -- Neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism in the USA -- The industrial world -- The machine age -- Gothic revival -- Nostalgia & whimsy -- The modern world -- Modernism -- Traditionalism -- The contemporary world.