I Wood and Masonry Domes -- 1. Domes: Their Morphological Significance -- 2. Domes: From Ancient to Islamic -- 3. Domes from the Romanesque to the Present -- 4. Dome Technologies -- II Concrete Shells: Fundamentals and Case Studies -- 5. Thin Shells US -- 6. Selected Shapes of Shells -- 7. Significant Examples of Concrete Shells in the Twentieth Century -- 8. Construction Aspects of Shells -- 9. Computer Analysis of Shells and Domes -- III Practical Aids for the Preliminary Design of Thin Shells -- 10. Empirical Design of Masonry Vaulting -- 11. Spherical Shells -- 12. Barrel Shells -- 13. The Design of Hyperbolic Paraboloids -- IV Skeletal Steel Structures and Megadomes -- 14. Trussed Domes -- 15. Computer Analysis of Trussed Domes -- Epilogue -- Appendix A ACI Building Code Requirements for Thin Shells and Folded Plates -- Appendix B Excerpts from The Engineering Index Manual 1989 -- Selected Bibliography.