A Text-Book of the History of Architecture is A. D. F. Hamlin’s authoritative survey of the development of building from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and into the nineteenth century. Long used as a standard college text, it organizes the vast subject into clear chapters on each style and period.
Hamlin, a professor of architecture at Columbia, combines historical narrative with attention to structure, ornament, and the social conditions that shaped each tradition. Concise yet wide-ranging, the book gives the student a systematic framework for understanding the evolution of architectural form. This revised seventh edition remains a serviceable and well-organized introduction to the global history of architecture.