Following the success of various international conferences, this book is a chronological first attempt at A Nocturnal History of Architecture, taking readers on an epic journey through more than 2000 years of entanglements between night and spatial design across different continents and geographies. Expanding our understanding of what architecture at night was like through a range of historical periods and what it could become, the book hopes to show how the night is a laboratory for the development of new ways to consider space and, ultimately, our concept of living. From the elusive darkness of Greek temples to the constantly illuminated American suburbia, and the presence of the moon in classic Japanese aesthetics to the architecture of Italian nightclubs, what emerges is how the identity of humans across ages and cultures are all inseparable from the night.