"Architecture in details" is a guide on architectural styles of different epochs. Heads are here located in a chronologic sequence: from times of Ancient Egypt to beginning of XIX of century. Every architectural style is examined in the context of history, that gives the всецелое understanding that, how style was formed, why at building one or another material was chosen, which a role of architect was.One of features of book - her unique illustrations, taken from the architectural treatises of XVIII and XIX of centuries, dictionaries and topographical researches. Going across from a head to the head, you will accomplish a way on architectural styles long in a few millenniums - simultaneously will become acquainted both with the standards of pre-columbian civilization and by the masterpieces of романского style, gothic and baroque.