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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Contents
Introduction
A word about drawing and images
Chapter-1 The beginnings of architecture
Prehistoric settlements and megalith constructions
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Ancient Mesopotamia
Sumerians akkadians, and neo-sumerians
Babylonians, Hittites and Assyrians
Neo-Babylonians and Persians
Ancient Egypt
Essay: hydraulic civilizations
The early dynastic period and old kingdom
The first pyramids
Fourth-dynasty pyramids at giza
The middle kingdom
The new kingdom
Chapter-2 The greek world
The millions
The mycenaeans
Mycenae
Greece: the archaic period
Greece: the classical period
The Parthenon, Athens
Other buildings on the acropolis
Essay: celebrating athema’s birthday
Greece: the Hellenistic period
Greek city planning
The Athenian agora
Hellenstic cities
Chapter-3
The architecture of ancient India
And Southeast Asia
Religions of India
Early Buddhist shrines
Essay: bamiyan and the colossal Buddha
The spread of Buddhist influence
Hindu temples
Early buildings
Later temples
Angkor wat
Chapter-4 Traditional architecture of china and japan
Chinese architectural principles
Principles of city planning
Houses and gardens
Essay: elder brother rock
Japanese temple architecture
Buddhist temples
Shinto shrines
Japanese cities,houses and castles
Zen Buddhist architecture katsura
Chapter-5 The roman world
Etruscan imprints
Roman architecture
Building techniques and materials
City planning
Essay: the engineering might of the romans
Temples
Public buildings
Valuated spaces
Public baths
Threaters and amphitheaters
Residences
Urban housing
Rural villas and urban places
Chapter-6 Early Christian and byzantine architecture
Early Christian basilicas
Martyria, baptisteries and mausolea
Essay : eusebius and constanine
Byzantine basilicas and domed basilicas
Centrally planned byzantine churches
Byzantine churches in Russia
Masonry churches
Wooden churches
Chapter-7 Islamic architecture
Early shrines and palaces
Development of the mosque
Regional variations in mosque design
Columnar hall designs
Iwan designs
Courtyard designs
Pavilion designs
Domed prayer hall designs
Houses, palaces and urban patterns
Chapter-8 Early medieval and Romanesque
Architecture
Carolingian architecture
The revival of masonry construction
Monasteries
Anglo-saxon and Viking architecture
English churches
Norwegian stave churches
Early Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture of the Holy Roman Empire
Pilgrimage architecture of the Holy Roman Empire
Pilgrimage roads
The order of cluny
Essay: the mystic mill from vezelay
Aquitance and provence
Cistercian monasteries
Norman architecture
Chapter-9 Gothic architure
Early gothic
The abbey church of st. denis
High gothic
Charters and Bourges
Beauvais and ste. Chapelle
English gothic
Essay: a wool church
Early English
Decorated and perpendicular
German and Italian gothic
German and Italian gothic
German hall churches
Italian gothic variations
Medieval construction
Medieval houses and castles
Housing
Castles
Medieval cities
Chapter-10 Indigenous architecture in the
Pre-Columbian Americas
Tribes of the Great Plains and the great lakes
Tribes of the northeast
Tribes of the Mississippi of the river basin
Essay: the birthplace of the Choctaws
Arctic and subarctic tribes
Tribes of the northwest and northern California
Tribes of the southwest
Mexico, central America, and south America
The olmecs of the eastern Mexican coast
Teotihuacan in the valley of mexico
The zapotecs and mixtecs at monte alban, Oaxaca
The maya
Tikal
Copan and Palenque
Uxmal and chichen itza
The toltecs in the valley of mexico
The Aztecs at Tenochtitlan
The incas in the andes
Chapter-11 Renaissance architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi
Florence cathedral
Other Florentine cathedral
Michelozzo bartolomeo and the palazzo medici
Leon battista alberti
Writings
The palazzo rucellai, Florence
Churches in rimini and mantua
Essay: pius’s resolutions
The ideal city
Other renaissance city plans
The spread of the renaissance
Urbino
Milan
Moscow
Leonardo da vinci
Donato Bramante
The tempietto rome
St.peter’s rome
Porta pia, rome
Sforza chapel,rome
Andrea palladio
Buildings in Vicenza
Villa designs in the Veneto
Churches in venice
The teatro olimpico
Palladio’s venice
Garden design
Boboli gardens Florence
The renaissance in france
Chateaux in the loire valley
Sebastiano serlio and philibert de I’orme
The louvre the French place and hotel,paris
The renaissance in England
Elizabethan country houses
Inigo jones
Chapter-12 Baroque architecture
The reformation and counter-reformation
Gesu ,rome
Pope sixtus V and the preplanning of rome
St. peter’s
Gianlorenzo Bernini
The completetion of st.peter’s
S. andrea al quirinale, rome
Francesco Borromini
S. carlo alle Quattro fontane, rome
S.lvo della sapienza
Urban open spaces in baroque Rome
The piazza navona
Essay: piazza navona –A space for spectacle
The piazza Del popolo
The spread of baroque architecture to northern Italy
Guarino guarini
Bemardo vittone
Filippo juvarra
The baroque in central Europe
Die wies, Bavaria
The baroque in france
The louvre paris
Francois mansart
The chateaux of vaux-le-vicomte and Versailles
Jules-hardouin mansart
Christopher wren and the baroque in England
The city churches
St. paul’s
Housing in the manner of wren
Nicholas hawksmoor,sir john Vanbrugh and james
Gibbs
Chapter-13 The eighteenth century
The English neo-palladians
The return to antiquity
Essay: prianesi’s view of rome
Robert adam and William chambers
Etienne-louis boullee and claude-nicrolas ledoux
French architects and the aggrandizement of the state
French architectural education and the ecole des
Beaux-arts
The challenge of the industrial revolution
Romanticism and the picturesque
The romantic landscape
Picturesque buildings
Chapter-14 Nineteenth-century
Developments
Neo-classicism
Karl friedrich schinkel
Sir john soane
Benjamin henry Latrobe and Thomas Jefferson
The gothic revival
A.W.N. pugin
The ecclesiological movement in England and America
Eugene –enmmanuel violet-le-duc
The ecole des beaux-arts
Richard morris hunt and the world’s Columbian
Exposition
Mckim,mead , and white
Progress in iron fabrication
Iron bridges
Development in steel
Essay: the coming of the railroad
Architectural applications of iron and steel construction
Joseph Paxton
Henri labrouste
Gustave Eiffel
The first skyscrapers
Skeletal construction in concrete and wood
The arts and crafts movement
John Ruskin
William morris
Richard norman shaw,C.F.A. voysey, and herman
Muthesius
Art nouveau
Victor horta and hector guimard
Antonio gaudf
Charles rennie mackintosh
The Viennese secession
The search for an American style
Henry hobson Richardson
Louis Henri Sullivan
Chapter-15 The twentieth century
And modernism
The idea of a modern architecture
The war of words
Adolf loos
Ornament and crime
The raumplan and loos’s buildings
Frank Lloyd wright
Developing the prairle house
Early public buildings
The flight from America
Peter Behrens and the deutscher werkbund
Futurism and constructivism
Dutch and german expressionism
Art deco
De stijl
Exploiting the potential of concrete
Tony garnier and the industrial city
Le Corbusier
The dom-ino and citrohan houses
The villa stein and the villa savoye
The cite universities and le corbusier’s five points
Walter Gropius
Building designs
The Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau
Essay: a Russian painter at the Bauhaus
Ludwig mies van der rohe
The Barcelona pavilion and the tugendhat house
The weissenhof siedlung and the international style
The Guggenheim museurn and tailiesin west
Later work of le Corbusier
Ronchamp and ste-marie-de-la-tourette
Chandigarh
The decline of modernism
Chapter-16 Modernisms in the mid-and late twentieth century
Alvar alto
Eero Saarinen
Louis I, kahn
Robert venturi’s radical counter-proposal to modernism
Intellectual inspirations for post-modernism
Philip Johnson
Charles moore
Michael graves
Robert A.M. stern
Richard meier
The exploitation of technology by james sterling and
Others
Deconstruction
Peter eisenman
Essay: M.C Escher and the paradoxical staircases of
Post-modernsim
Frank gehry
Glenn murcutt