Includes bibliographical references and index.

A fixed place under the sky: the invention of architecture -- Out of the cave: neolithic architecture -- Rivers of culture: Mesopotamian ad Egyptian architecture -- When the gods were human: Minoan and Mycenaean architecture -- Frogs around a pond: architecture in ancient Greece -- In the Tuscan manner: Etruscan architecture -- As many stars as in the sky: Roman architecture -- One true faith: Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Shinto architecture -- The ages in the middle: early Medieval and Romanesque architecture -- A strange region of the universe: Gothic architecture -- Where freedom dwells: the city revisited.