A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in from the humblest prehistoric huts to todays skyscrapers reveal our priorities and ambitions our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasnt been explored until now architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy from fire to farming to fossil fuels.In this groundbreaking history of world architecture Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years from Uruk via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool to Chinas booming megacities.