Customer Reviews

Buildings across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture

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3 star:		(1)
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This book appears to be exactly the same as "A World History of Architecture" (Paperback) by the same authors and available on Amazon for $33.64 without the CD. The number of pages, table of contents, and intro sentence are exactly the same. It seems more than slightly shady to me to sell the exact same book with two different names.

This book is required reading for my Architectural History class and was for sale at my school's bookstore for $100. My stodgy old professor isn't teaching from the CD. I am not giving these people my money, I got my copy at the library.

I'm one of those "stodgy" old professors (who chose this book as a text before it included the disc and zoomed up in price.) I was unaware until last week that it's produced under another name without the disc, at 40% of the price of this one (Yes, tacky, isn't it?) This book is very good, but it's NOT a good purchase since the identical "A World History of Architecture," can be purchased instead. Same words, far better price. I'm changing texts for future classes.

I read the previous review about how there are two versions of this book with two different titles and two different prices, but I just wanted to double check. I purchased both to double check and the reviews were correct.

This book cost $85 and is paperback with no CD

"A World History of Architecture" - 2nd edition is half the price and a hardback version.

I skimmed the pages and it is the SAME EXACT BOOK down to the page numbers.

This is an interesting book, but is marked down because the CD does not open on the Macintosh, even though it is supposed to be OS X compatible. The publisher provides no work-around to the problem.

Not recommended.

I AM another testament that this book is TOTALLY the same as the other book "A World History of Architecture," but the prices ARE quite different.

Of course, THANKS to the previous comment and the reply.

My classmates all have this book, while I have the "World History" one, but no differences in the entire content (except the cover design) whatsoever.

First of all to everyone saying it is a scam. The other book is like $3 bucks cheaper. Not a big deal get over it. The book has a very wide spread amount of information which seemed to me to water down the specifics. It was hard to really get a good amount of information about any particular period or style because it covered in my mind too many. Should be split into 2 books going into more detail on everything a little better. Other than that I thought the book was alright at giving a brief overview on everything in architecture history.

My friend and I are in the same ARC 1720 course at UF. He decided to buy this book, Buildings across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture because it was the required text. In my case, I decided to buy A World History of Architecture instead. I never lose the chance to remind my foolish friend that my book was $40 cheaper, has a hard cover, larger pages, and the same text verbatim. And by verbatim, I mean the same pages -layouts, photos, even corresponding page numbers. So, in short, dont buy Buildings across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture because you will be jealous of your savvy friend who bought the cheaper, better version A World History of Architecture.

This book was required for one of my college courses and has been an excellent read! Its a good book to get if your at all interested in architecture.

This book delivers exactly what I expected. The book is an older version but it has worked perfectly for the history and theory of architecture course that i am currently using it for.

I'm reading this book as requirement for a history class in an Architecture undergrad program. I'm sure most who will buy this book will read it for the same or a similar reason. I'm only through the first 1/4 of the book. It's full of pictures and descriptions of notable structures in a given time period and well organized chronologically. It seems the authors avoid drawing fully developed conclusions that explain the purpose for many early structures/dwellings. Maybe omitting this type of conjecture keeps things more factual. I get a dose of the "theories" in lectures on the subject, and that makes the reading much more interesting.