Vernacular - or traditional - architecture encompasses most of the buildings of the world. This encyclopedia is the first to show the remarkable diversity of the buildings constructed and lived in by ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

The world we live in today where everybody, at least theoretically, can be linked to everyone else. The wired world began with the cellphone in the 1980s; however, it took a giant leap forward ...