Because we move around the world at a rapid pace in this course, you may find an Atlas of World History, like the one published by Rand McNally (or something similar), very helpful. If you are unfamiliar with architectural terminology, I would suggest that you consult specialized dictionaries such as The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture (edited by J.F.H. Honour and N. Pevsner) and The Penguin Dictionary of Building (edited by J.S. Scott) following each lecture.
*Required reading
General
Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous (Required reading)*
Ballantyne, A. Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
Bagenal, P. and Meades, J. The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings
Benevolo, L. The History of the City
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method
Frankfort, H. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Orient
Furneaux Jordan, R. Western Architecture: A Concise History
Grun, B. Timetables of History
Janson, H.W. History of Art
Kostof, S., ed. The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession
Kostof, S. The City Assembled
Kostof, S. The City Shaped
Millon, H. Key Monuments of the History of Architecture
Mumford, L. The City in History
Norberg-Schulz, C. Intentions in Architecture
Norberg-Schulz, C. Meaning in Western Architecture
Nuttgens, P. J. The Story of Architecture
O�Gorman, James F., ABC of Architecture
Pevsner, N. An Outline of European Architecture
Risebero, B. The Story of Architecture
Rudofsky, B. Architecture without Architects
Schoenauer, N. History of Housing
Trachtenberg, M. and I. Hyman. Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernism
Yarwood, D. The Architecture of Europe
Vitruvius, P.The Ten Books on Architecture
Watkin, D. A History of Western Architecture
Prehistoric/Ancient
Atkinson, R. Stonehenge
Badawy, A. Architecture in Ancient Egypt and the Near East
Badawy, A. A History of Egyptian Architecture, 3 vols.
Baldwin Smith, E. Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages
Beck, M. Atlas of Mesopotamia
Blegen, C.W. Troy and the Trojans
Boethius, A. Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture
Boethius, A. The Golden House of Nero
Bowra, C. Periklean Athens
Brion, M. Pompeii and Herculaneum
Brown, F.E. Roman Architecture
Burl, A. The Stone Circles of the British Isles
Carpenter, R. The Architects of the Parthenon
Castagnoli, F. Orthagonal Town Planning in Antiquity
Coulton, J. Ancient Greek Architects at Work
Coulton, J. The Architectural Development of the Greek Stoa
Daniel, G. The Megalith Builders of Western Europe
Daniel, G. The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France
Dinsmoor, W.B. The Architecture of Ancient Greece
Dyer, J. Discovering Archaeology in England and Wales
Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt
Fakhry, A. The Pyramids
Frankfort, H. Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient
Fyfe, T. Hellenistic Architecture
Giedion, S. The Eternal Present
Graham, J.W. The Palaces of Crete
Grinsell, L.V. Barrows in England and Wales
Martin, R. Living Architecture: Greece
Mylonas, G. Ancient Mycenae
Picard, G. Living Architecture: Rome
Robertson, D. S. Greek and Roman Architecture
Onians, J. Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age
Scientific American, Old World Archaeology
Scully, V. The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods
Smith, E.B. Egyptian Architecture as Cultural Expression
Smith, W.S. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Stead, M. Egyptian Life
Stern, P. Prehistoric Europe from Stone Age Man to the Early Greeks
Stover, L. and B. Kraig. Stonehenge: The Indo-European Heritage
Trump, D. The Prehistory of the Mediterranean
Vernant, J-P. The Origins of Greek Thought*(Required reading)
Ward-Perkins, J. Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy
Ward-Perkins, J. and A. Claridge. Pompeii AD 79
Wainwright, G. The Henge Monuments
Warren, P. The Aegean Civilizations
Whitehouse, R. The First Cities
Wilber, D. Persepolis
Willetts, R. The Civilization of Ancient Crete
Woldering, I. The Art of Egypt
Woolley, C. Excavations at Ur
Wycherley, R.E. How the Greeks Built Cities
Wycherley, R.E. The Stones of Athens
Medieval
Alfoldi, A. The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome
Barraclough, G. The Crucible of Europe
Beresford, M. New Towns of the Middle Ages
Bony, J. French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries
Branner, R. Gothic Architecture
Braunfels, W. Monasteries of Western Europe
Clapman, A. Romanesque Architecture in Western Europe
Conant, K.J. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture
Decker, H. Romanesque Art in Italy
Demus, O. The Church of San Marco in Venice
Fitchen, J. The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals
Focillon, H. Art of the West, 2 vols.
Frankl, P. Gothic Architecture
Franklin, J. The Cathedrals of Italy
Gies, J. and F. Gies. Life in a Medieval City
Gimpel, J. The Cathedral Builders
Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House
Grodecki, L. Gothic Architecture
Harvey, J. The Mediaeval Architect
Henderson, G. Chartres
Holmes, U. Daily Living in the Twelfth Century
Horn, W. et al. The Forgotten Hermitage of Skellig Michael
Horn, W. and E. Born. The Plan of St. Gall
Hubert, J. et al. The Carolingian Renaissance
Kahler, H. Hagia Sophia
Kostof, S. Caves of God
Kostof, S. The Orthodox Baptistery of Ravenna
Krautheimer, R. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Kubach, H. Romanesque Architecture
MacDonald, W. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Maclagan, M. The City of Constantinople
Mainstone, R. Hagia Sophia
Male, E. The Gothic Image
Mark, R. Experiments in Gothic Structure
Mathews, T. Early Churches of Constantinople
Mullins, E. The Pilgrimage of Santiago
Mundy, J. and P. Riesenberg. The Medieval Town
Oursel, R. Living Architecture: Romanesque
Panofsky, E. Abbot Suger and the Abbey Church of St. Denis
Panofsky, E. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
Price, L. The Plan of St. Gall: In Brief
Ruggiers, P. Florence in the Age of Dante
Saalman, H. Medieval Cities
Toynbee, J. and J.B. Ward-Perkins. The Shrine of St. Peter
van der Meer, F. Atlas of the Early Christian World
von Simson, O.G. Gothic Cathedral
von Simson, O.G. Sacred Fortress
Wood, M. The English Mediaeval House
Pre-Columbian
Andrews, G. Maya Cities
Berrin, K. and E. Pasztory, eds. Teotihuacan
Hardoy, J. Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America
Heyden, D. and P. Gendrop. Pre-Columbian Architecture of Mesoamerica
Keleme, P. Medieval American Art.
Kubler, G. Art and Architecture of Ancient America
Lekson, W. et al. "The Chaco Canyon Community," Scientific American (July 1988)
Millon, R. "Teotihuacan," Scientific American, 216 (June 1967)
Millon, R. Urbanization at Teotihuacan, Mexico
Morgan, W. Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States
Nabokov, P. and R. Easton. Native American Architecture
Robertson, D. Pre-Columbian Architecture
Scully, V. Pueblo
Islam
Creswell, K. Early Muslim Architecture
Grabar, O. The Alhambra
Grabar, O. The Formation of Islamic Art
Hoag, J. Islamic Architecture
G. Michell, ed. Architecture of the Islamic World
Rice, D.T. Islamic Art
Sebag, P. The Great Mosque at Kairouan
Asian
Alex, W. Japanese Architecture
Boyd, A. Chinese Architecture and Town Planning
Engel, H. The Japanese House
Ito, T. The Essential Japanese House
Ito, T. The Japanese Garden
Michell, G. The Hindu Temple
Piggott, S. Prehistoric India
Pirazzoli-T'Serstevens, M. Living Architecture: Chinese
Rowland, B. The Art and Architecture of India
Sickman, L. and A. Soper, The Art and Architecture of China
Steinhardt, N. "Why were Chang'an and Beijing So Different?" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 45 (Dec. 1986)
Suzuki, K. Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan
Treib, M. and R. Herman, A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto
Volwahsen, A. Living Architecture: Indian