Understanding Architecture

Jeremy Melvin is senior lecturer in the History of Architecture at South Bank University, and guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Architectural Association, ETH Zurich and other schools. He has also written a number of books on the subject of architecture.

Introduction How to Use this Book Ancient and Pre-Renaissance Pre-Classicism Indism Proto-Classicism Hellenic Classicism Confucianism Roman Classicism Pre-Columbianism Shintoism Christian Classicism Islamicism Indo-Khmerism Gothic Scholasticism Gothic Commercialism Renaissance Inventionism Humanism Idealism Mannerism Pietism Regional Classicism Baroque Absolutism Anglican Empiricism Rococo Palladianism Georgian Urbanism Early Modern Neoclassicism Exoticism Sublimism Structural Rationalism Materialism Medievalism Victorianism Monumental Urbanism Anti-Urbanism Decorative Industrialism Imperialism Modernism Expressionism Usonianism Constructivism Purism Rationalism Functionalism Skyscraperism Totalitarianism Corporatism Brutalism Beyond Modernism Structuralism Regionalism Metabolism Postmodernism Technoism Neo-Rationalism Deconstructivism Ecoism Metarationalism Performatism Ornamentalism Giganticism Bioclimatism Glossary of Buildings Glossary of Architects Glossary of Useful Terms Chronology of Isms Places to Visit Credits