Surveys & General Histories

• 📘 A Global History of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, and Vikramaditya Prakash
• 📘 A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1995) by Spiro Kostof

📘 A Global History of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, and Vikramaditya Prakash

The most ‘current’ survey of world architectural history. A response to calls of decolonising and globalising architectural history. Please replace your Banister Fletcher.

📘 A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1995) by Spiro Kostof 📘 Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (2016) edited by G.A. Bremner

The first and most recent survey of the vast realm of British Imperial architecture in the Dominions, India, and other colonies.

📘 Modern Architectures in History: India (2015) by Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava

Arguably the best survey currently available on the subject – much work remains to be done.

📘 A History of Western Architecture () by David Watkin

📘 Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (2002) by Peter Hall

📘 Architecture in the United States (1998) by Dell Upton