Architecture History

Architecture 101 with Calis at University of Virginia

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Stonehenge
c. 2750-1500BC

Palace of Sargon, Khorsabad

721-705BC

Ishtar Gate

Babylon: c. 575 BC

Temple of Hatshepsut

1503-1482 BC (in book: ca. 1500 BC)

Pyramids of Giza

2570-2500 BC

Catalhöyük:
c. 7500 – 5700 BC (in book: seventh millennium BC)
South Anatolia (modern Turkey)

Warka (Uruk), White Temple
3500 – 3000 BC

Treasury of Atreus
1300 – 1250 BC (in book: fourteenth century BC)

Parthenon
c. 447-432 BC

Erechtheion
c. 421 – 405 BC

Lamasu

c. 715 BC?

Kouros

c. 600 BC

Kritios Boy

c. 490-480 BC

Temple of Apollo

Bassae

late 5th century BC

Temple of Apollo

Didyma

300-287 BC (in book: begun in late fourth century BC and never finished)

Pergamon
282-133 BC; 2nd century BC

Altar of Zeus, Pergamon

c. 175 BC (in book: first half of the second century BC)

Roman Forum

c. 750 BC

Colosseum

72-80

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

c. 307-312

Pantheon

c. 118-26 (P4)
120-27 (P220)

Pont du Gard
Between Uzes and Nimes, France,
late 1st century BC

Theater at Delphi

c. 300 BCE

Hagia Sophia

532-537

Old St. Peter's

320-30

San Vitale

Ravenna: c. 526 – 547

St. Gall

820

St. Denis Cathedral
1144

Alhambra

Granada (Spain)
1354-91 (in book: 13th-14th)

Hodgepodge

Christian reconquerred-addition

Mudoha architecture: Christian patroned architecture looks Islamic

Dome

Pool

Portable lions

Ornamentation: precise, deep carving

Arabic inscriptions at the Alhambra-poem

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, c. 690

1^st Islamic structure survived

Significance of the rock-Mohammad ascended to heaven; religious tradition

~ San Vitale & Santa Constanza

4 doors

Embracing Christian form

Covered with mosaic inside, jewels

Calligraphy on the architecture

Double ambulatory-double aisles

Inscription inside

Great Mosque of Damascus

(Syria), 706 – 715

Rectangular shape-big hall

Hypostyle hall

Courtyard

Fountain in courtyard

Interior-vegetation; abstract on background

Geometrical, abstract tile work

Supercilious arches

Structurally sound system

Great Mosque, Cordoba
Spain (785 – 987) (in book: 8th-10th)

Gothic Church stuck outside of it-Christian

Interior decoration: polylobed arches-ornamentation-alternative colors, domes on top, horse-shoe arches, calligraphic decoration, lace-like carving

Later addition match the original

Red & white

Blind interlinking arches-seen in Romanesque

Madinat al-zahra
(Spain) – founded 936

Emphasis on garden

Royal Salon-reception hall; arches painted red & white

Procession element-Christian like

“Halo”

Intricate, deep leaf carve-shadow & light

Horseshoe arches merging into each other

Ur (plan)

2113-2006 BC (in book: second millennium BC)

Duomo of Florence
1296-1418 (in book: baptistery, 11th-12th; campanile of the cathedral: 1334-57)

Palazzo Medici

1444-1460

Hadrian's villa

118-134

Cluny III
1095-1130

Palace of Charlemagne, Aachen

Germany. 796-804

Abbey Church of St. Riquier

790-99

St. Etienne

1068-1115

Saint Foy

1050-1120

Chartres Cathedral

1194-1260

Fontenay Church
1139-47

Forbidden City

1406-1644

Teotihuacan

100BC-600 (in book: first century BC-eighth century)

Axial : N-S Axis

The Processional Way : Way of the Dead

Architecture of mass and space: Temples + plazas + ritual walkways

Monumentality – cosmic and astrological alignment

Talud (sloping base support) - tablero (vertical plane of entablature)

Temple of Sun : Marks the movement of the Sun

Temple of Moon

Tikal

300-900 (in book: ca.700)

Entirely paved

Double pyramid-the place where the sun rises during raining season and normal season

Lower class-labors and farmers

Ball Court @ Tikal-right by the temple-observatories

Hildesheim
St. Michael
1001-1033

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