HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

• An chronological overview

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Influential Periods in History

• Prehistory
• Early civilizations
• Greece
• The east
• Rome
• Buddhism
• Rock-cut architecture
• Early Christian churches
• Islam
• Middle Ages
• 15th - 16th century
• 17th - 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century

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Prehistory

• 30, 000 years ago to 6500 BC
• Caves and tents
• From tents to round houses
• Straight walls with windows
• Stone Age graves and temples

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Early Civilizations

• 3000 to 1200 BC
• Mesopotamia and Egypt
• Mastabas and pyramids
• Knossos and Mycenae
• Karnak and Luxor
• Abu Simbel
• The first American monuments

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Greek Influence

• 7th to 4th Century BC
• Greek architecture in the colonies
• The Parthenon
• The Greek theatre

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Eastern Influence

• 1st century BC
• Chinese architectural tradition
• Emperors and dynasties

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Roman Influence

• 1st century AD
• Cement
• Vitruvius
• Arch, vault and dome
• Pont du Gard
• Roman bridges
• Pantheon

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Buddhist Influence    

• 1st 2nd century AD
• Stupas and temples
• The pagoda

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Rock-cut architecture

• 1st to 13th century AD
• Excavated interiors
• Ajanta, Ellora and Elephanta
• Cappadocia and Lalibela

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Early Christian churches

• 4th to 2nd century BC
• Basilicas, secular and sacred
• Santa Sophia
• Influence of Justinian's church

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Islam

• 1st century BC to 14th century AD
• The Dome of the Rock

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Middle Ages

• 9th to 13th century AD
• Medieval castles
• Romanesque
• The vaulted stone roof
• Capella Palatina in Palermo
• Gothic
• St Denis and Chartres
• Sainte Chapelle in Paris
• Italian Gothic

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15th - 16th century

• The arts in Florence     
• Brunelleschi and the Duomo
• The Renaissance style
• Inca architecture
• Age of the palace
• Age of the dome
• Glazed domestic windows
• Indian and Japanese castles
• Villa and country seat

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17th - 18th century

• Baroque as a style
• Baroque Rome
• Dutch and English houses
• Palladian stately homes
• Neoclassicism
• Gothic Revival

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19th century

• The eclectic century
• Glass, iron, prefabrication

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20th Century

• 1900 to 2000 AD
• Modernism ,Bauhaus school coined by Walter
  Gropius,
• Deconstructivism,
• Formalism,
• Modernism,
• Structuralism and Postmodernism.