Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field.

Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comparative maps, a glossary, and text boxes devoted to social factors and specific issues in technology and philosophy. The result is a compendious method for understanding and appreciating the history, cultural significance, beauty, and diversity of architecture from around the world.

New to This Edition:
An enhanced visual program features 235 new images and photographs, including interior shots and improved maps and building plans An extended box program explores new contextual topics like gender and folklore in addition to the prior edition's coverage of religion, philosophy, culture, and technology

An expanded open-access Companion Website including an array of popular learning resources like chapter summaries, self exams, and Google Maps links to key structures A list of UNESCO world heritage sites referenced in the book