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American architecture in the first four decades of this century, if perceived as having any continuity at all, is held together by the least typical of all its architects, Frank Lloyd Wright. In the closing decades of the previous century, the multi-storey commercial building had not only been invented in technical terms, but also developed [...]

In the history of architecture, Pre-Columbian architecture reached its greatest level of achievement in two cultural zones: Meso-America (comprising much of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region. It was a unique, symbolic architecture, always based around ceremonial centres. These two geographical environments were very different, but in both cases exterior spaces were adroitly [...]