Recognize and Evaluate Architectural Styles and Structures is a self-paced online course built from the Wiley title of the same name.

What this course covers

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Contents
Introduction
Part I : Knowing and Appreciating Architecture
Chapter 1: Knowing When a Building Is Just a Building and When It’s Architecture
Chapter 2: How to Look at a Building
Chapter 3: Building Your Architectural Vocabulary
Part II : Nuts and Bolts: Looking at How Architecture Is Designed and Built
Chapter 4: How Buildings Are Born
Chapter 5: Just What Do Architects Do, Anyway?
Chapter 6: A Simple Structure: How Buildings Stand Up
Part III : Western Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures
Chapter 7: Gimme Shelter: Prehistoric Structures and the Ancient World
Chapter 8: Acropolis Now: Classical Greece and Rome
Chapter 9: Domes, Arches, and Vaults, Oh My: Byzantine and Medieval Architecture
Chapter 10: Beauty Meets Mathematics and Drama: From Renaissance to Rococo
Chapter 11: Revivals Everywhere: The Classical and Gothic Are New Again
Chapter 12: Here Comes the Industrial Age: Prefab Is Here to Stay
Chapter 13: Flying High and Close to the Sun: Skyscrapers!
Chapter 14: Mother Nature versus the Machines: Modern Styles
Chapter 15: The Only Constant Is Change: From Modern Purism to Postmodern Pluralism
Part IV : Eastern Architecture: A Survey of the Most Important Structures
Chapter 16: China and Japan: Traditions in Wood
Chapter 17: More Than the Taj Mahal: Architecture in India
Chapter 18: The Islamic World
Part V : Arranging the Present and Saving the Past
Chapter 19: Understanding Urban Design
Chapter 20: Historic Preservation: Saving the Past for the Future
Part VI : The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: The Ten Most Fascinating Architects Working Today
Chapter 22: Ten Architectural Masterpieces
Chapter 23: Ten Amazing Items of Trivia That’ll Impress All Your Friends!
Chapter 24: The Top Ten Skyscrapers
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