Architecture is a survey attributed here to Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the influential American architectural historian best known for his work on modern and nineteenth-century building. The book offers a broad introduction to the development of architecture, situating styles and movements within their historical and cultural contexts for the general reader.
Hitchcock was a leading critic who helped define how the twentieth century understood the history of building, and his accessible writing made complex developments intelligible to a wide audience. Readers should note that attribution and dating for short public-domain titles of this kind can be uncertain. Taken on its own terms, the volume provides a clear, concise orientation to the long story of architectural form and style.