History of architecture 1

History of architecture
.
The history of architecture traces the
changes in architecture through various
traditions, regions, overarching stylistic
trends, and dates.

The Architect's Dream by Thomas Cole (1840) shows a vision of buildings in the
historical styles of the Western tradition, from Ancient Egypt through to Classical
Revival

A view of Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan showing buildings of a modern Asian city,

ranging from the medieval Osaka Castle to skyscrapers

Neolithic architecture
Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In
Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC,
initially in the Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery
Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards. There are
early Neolithic cultures in Southeast Anatolia, Syria and Iraq by 8000
BC, and food-producing societies first appear in southeast Europe by
7000 BC, and Central Europe by c. 5500 BC (of which the earliest
cultural complexes include the Starčevo-Koros (Cris),
Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae
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Linearbandkeramic, and Vinča). With very small exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great
Lakes region), the people of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology up until the
time of European contact.
The neolithic people in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were great builders,
utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages. At Çatalhöyük, houses were plastered and painted with
elaborate scenes of humans and animals. The Mediterranean neolithic cultures of Malta worshiped in megalithic
temples.
In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Elaborate tombs for the dead were also built.
These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousands still in existence. Neolithic
people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges flint
mines and cursus monuments.

Ancient Near East Africa and Mediterranean

Ancient Egyptian architecture

In Ancient Egypt and other early societies, people believed in the
omnipotence of Gods, with many aspects of daily life were carried out
with respect to the idea of the divine or supernatural and the way it was
manifest in the mortal cycles of generations, years, seasons, days and
nights. Harvests for example were seen as the benevolence of fertility
deities. Thus, the founding and ordering of the city and her most
important buildings (the palace or temple) were often executed by
priests or even the ruler himself and the construction was accompanied
by rituals intended to enter human activity into continued divine
Ceiling decoration in the peristyle hall of Medinet
benediction.
Habu, an example of ancient Egyptian
Ancient architecture is characterized by this tension between the divine architecture

and mortal world. Cities would mark a contained sacred space over the
wilderness of nature outside, and the temple or palace continued this order by acting as a house for the gods. The
architect, be he priest or king, was not the sole important figure; he was merely part of a continuing tradition.

Greek Architecture

The architecture and urbanism of the Greeks and Romans was very
different from that of the Egyptians and Persians. Civic life gained
importance for all members of the community. In the time of the
ancients religious matters were only handled by the ruling class; by the
time of the Greeks, religious mystery had skipped the confines of the
temple-palace compounds and was the subject of the people or polis.

Greek civic life was sustained by new, open spaces called the agora
which were surrounded by public buildings, stores and temples. The Temple of Concordia in Agrigento, Sicily.
agora embodied the newfound respect for social justice received
through open debate rather than imperial mandate. Though divine wisdom still presided over human affairs, the
living rituals of ancient civilizations had become inscribed in space, in the paths that wound towards the acropolis
for example. Each place had its own nature, set within a world refracted through myth, thus temples were sited atop
mountains all the better to touch the heavens.
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Roman Architecture
The Romans conquered the Greek cities in Italy around three hundred years BCE and much of the Western world
after that. The Roman problem of rulership involved the unity of disparity — from Spanish to Greek, Macedonian to
Carthaginian — Roman rule had extended itself across the breadth of the known world and the myriad pacified
cultures forming this ecumene presented a new challenge for justice.
One way to look at the unity of Roman architecture is through a new-found realization of theory derived from
practice, and embodied spatially. Civically we find this happening in the Roman forum (sibling of the Greek agora),
where public participation is increasingly removed from the concrete performance of rituals and represented in the
decor of the architecture. Thus we finally see the beginnings of the contemporary public square in the Forum Iulium,
begun by Julius Caesar, where the buildings present themselves through their facades as representations within the
space.
As the Romans chose representations of sanctity over actual sacred spaces to participate in society, so the
communicative nature of space was opened to human manipulation. None of which would have been possible
without the advances of Roman engineering and construction or the newly found marble quarries which were the
spoils of war; inventions like the arch and concrete gave a whole new form to Roman architecture, fluidly enclosing
space in taut domes and colonnades, clothing the grounds for imperial rulership and civic order. This was also a
response to the changing social climate which demanded new buildings of increasing complexity — the coliseum,
the residential block, bigger hospitals and academies. General civil construction such as roads and bridges began to
be built.
The Romans widely employed, and further developed, the arch, vault and dome (see the Roman Architectural
Revolution), all of which were little used before, particularly in Europe.[1] Their innovative use of Roman concrete
facilitated the building of the many public buildings of often unprecedented size throughout the empire. These
include Roman temples, Roman baths, Roman bridges, Roman aqueducts, Roman harbours, triumphal arches,
Roman amphitheatres, Roman circuses palaces, mausolea and in the late empire also churches.
Roman domes permitted construction of vaulted ceilings and enabled huge covered public spaces such as the public
baths like Baths of Diocletian or the monumental Pantheon in the city of Rome.
Art historians such as Gottfried Richter in the 1920s identified the Roman architectural innovation as being the
Triumphal Arch and it is poignant to see how this symbol of power on earth was transformed and utilized within the
Christian basilicas when the Roman Empire of the West was on its last legs: The arch was set before the altar to
symbolize the triumph of Christ and the after life. It is in their impressive aqueducts that we see the arch triumphant,
especially in the many surviving examples, such as the Pont du Gard, the aqueduct at Segovia and the remains of the
Aqueducts of Rome itself. Their survival is testimony to the durability of their materials and design.

- Roman Temple: Maison Carrée, Nimes, France (contrast with Greek temple)

- Triumphal Arch: Arch of Constantine, Rome - Arch:

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Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain - Dome: Interior of the Pantheon in Rome

Byzantine Architecture
The Byzantine Empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from the Roman Empire after AD
330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to Byzantium
(later renamed Constantinople and now called Istanbul). The empire endured for more than a millennium,
dramatically influencing Medieval and Renaissance era architecture in Europe and, following the capture of
Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, leading directly to the architecture of the Ottoman Empire.
Early Byzantine Architecture was built as a continuation of Roman architecture. Stylistic drift, technological
advancement, and political and territorial changes meant that a distinct style gradually emerged which imbued
certain influences from the Near East and used the Greek cross plan in church architecture. Buildings increased in
geometric complexity, brick and plaster were used in addition to stone in the decoration of important public
structures, classical orders were used more freely, mosaics replaced carved decoration, complex domes rested upon
massive piers, and windows filtered light through thin sheets of alabaster to softly illuminate interiors.

Islamic Architecture
Islamic Architecture has encompassed a wide range of both secular and religious architecture styles from the
foundation of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures within the
sphere of Islamic culture. Some distinctive structures in Islamic architecture are mosques, tombs, palaces and forts,
although Islamic architects have of course also applied their distinctive design precepts to domestic architecture.
The wide spread and long history of Islam has given rise to many local architectural styles, including Persian-,
Moorish, Timurid, Ottoman, Fatimid, Mamluk, Mughal, Indo-Islamic, Sino-Islamic and Afro-Islamic architecture.
Notable Islamic architectural types include the early Abbasid buildings, T-type mosques, and the central-dome
mosques of Anatolia.- Also, Islamic architexture also discourages illustrations of anything living, such as animals
and humans, due to the belief that at death, their soul will never rest in peace.

- Sudano-Sahelian: The Great Mosque of Djenné in present-day Mali, illustrating the mud

construction of western Africa. - Moorish architecture: The Great Mosque of Kairouan

in Tunisia - Ottoman architecture: Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey.

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- Persian architecture: Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran.

- Mughal architecture: Badshahi Mosque, Pakistan

Africa
Great Zimbabwe is the largest medieval city in sub-Saharan
Africa. By the late nineteenth century, most buildings
reflected the fashionable European eclecticism and
pastisched Mediterranean, or even Northern European,
styles.
In the Western Sahel region, Islamic influence was a major
contributing factor to architectural development from the
later ages of the Kingdom of Ghana. At Kumbi Saleh, locals
lived in domed-shaped dwellings in the king's section of the
city, surrounded by a great enclosure. Traders lived in stone The conical tower inside the Great Enclosure in Great
Zimbabwe, a medieval city built by a prosperous culture.
houses in a section which possessed 12 beautiful mosques, as
described by al-bakri, with one centered on Friday prayer.[2]
The king is said to have owned several mansions, one of which was sixty-six feet long, forty-two feet wide,
contained seven rooms, was two stories high, and had a staircase; with the walls and chambers filled with sculpture
and painting.[3]

Sahelian architecture initially grew from the two cities of Djenné and Timbuktu. The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu,
constructed from mud on timber, was similar in style to the Great Mosque of Djenné. The rise of kingdoms in the
West African coastal region produced architecture which drew on indigenous traditions, utilizing wood. The famed
Benin City, destroyed by the Punitive Expedition, was a large complex of homes in coursed clay, with hipped roofs
of shingles or palm leaves. The Palace had a sequence of ceremonial rooms, and was decorated with brass plaques.
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Southern Asia

Persian Architecture
The pre-Islamic styles draw on 3-4 thousand years of
architectural development from various civilizations of
the Iranian plateau. The Islamic architecture of Iran in
turn, draws ideas from its pre-Islamic predecessor, and
has geometrical and repetitive forms, as well as
surfaces that are richly decorated with glazed tiles,
carved stucco, patterned brickwork, floral motifs, and
calligraphy. Iran and is recognized by UNESCO as
being one of the cradles of civilization.[4]

Each of the periods of Elamites, Achaemenids,

Parthians, and Sassanids were creators of great
architecture that over the ages has spread wide and far
to other cultures being adopted. Although Iran has
suffered its share of destruction, including Alexander
The Great's decision to burn Persepolis, there are
sufficient remains to form a picture of its classical The ruins of Persepolis, approximately 2500 years old.
architecture.

The Achaemenids built on a grand scale. The artists and materials they used were brought in from practically all
territories of what was then the largest state in the world. Pasargadae set the standard: its city was laid out in an
extensive park with bridges, gardens, colonnaded palaces and open column pavilions. Pasargadae along with Susa
and Persepolis expressed the authority of The King of Kings, the staircases of the latter recording in relief sculpture
the vast extent of the imperial frontier.
With the emergence of the Parthians and
Sassanids there was an appearance of new forms.
Parthian innovations fully flowered during the
Sassanid period with massive barrel-vaulted
chambers, solid masonry domes, and tall
columns. This influence was to remain for years
to come. The roundness of the city of Baghdad
in the Abbasid era for example, points to its
Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Fars.[5]
The two designers who were hired by al-Mansur
to plan the city's design were Naubakht, a former
The ruins of Taq-i Kisra at Ctesiphon (in today iraq) - an example of Persian
Persian Zoroastrian who also determined that the
architecture during Sassanid period.
date of the foundation of the city would be
astrologically auspicious, and Mashallah, a
former Jew from Khorasan. The ruins of Persepolis, Ctesiphon, Jiroft,[6] Sialk, Pasargadae, Firouzabad, Arg-é Bam,
and thousands of other ruins may give us merely a distant glimpse of what contribution Persians made to the art of
building.

The fall of the Sassanid Empire to invading Islamic forces ironically led to the creation of remarkable religious
buildings in Iran. Arts such as calligraphy, stucco work, mirror work, and mosaic work, became closely tied with
architecture in Iran in the new era. Archaeological excavations have provided sufficient documents in support of the
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impacts of Sasanian architecture on the architecture of the Islamic world. Many experts believe the period of Persian
architecture from the 15th through 17th Centuries to be the most brilliant of the post-Islamic era. Various structures
such as mosques, mausoleums, bazaars, bridges, and different palaces have mainly survived from this period.
In the old Persian architecture, semi-circular and oval-shaped vaults were of great interest, leading Safavi architects
to display their extraordinary skills in making massive domes. In the words of D. Huff, a German archaeologist, the
dome is the dominant element in Persian architecture. Domes can be seen frequently in the structure of bazaars and
mosques, particularly during the Safavi period in Isfahan. Iranian domes are distinguished for their height,
proportion of elements, beauty of form, and roundness of the dome stem. The outer surfaces of the domes are mostly
mosaic faced, and create a magical view. Safavi Isfahan tried to achieve grandeur in scale (Isfahan's Naghsh-i Jahan
Square is the 6th largest square worldwide) knowledge about building tall buildings with vast inner spaces.
However, the quality of ornaments was decreased in comparison with those of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The great mosques of Khorasan, Isfahan, and Tabriz each used local geometry, local materials, and local building
methods to express in their own ways the order, harmony, and unity of Islamic architecture. And thus when the
major monuments of Islamic Persian architecture are examined, they reveal complex geometrical relationships, a
studied hierarchy of form and ornament, and great depths of symbolic meaning.

Indian Architecture
Indian Architecture encompasses a wide variety of geographically and
historically spread structures, and was transformed by the history of the
Indian subcontinent. The result is an evolving range of architectural
production that, although it is difficult to identify a single
representative style, nonetheless retains a certain amount of continuity
across history. The diversity of Indian culture is represented in its
architecture. It is a blend of ancient and varied native traditions, with
building types, forms and technologies from West and Central Asia, as
Chennakesava Temple, Belur in Karnataka, India.
well as Europe. Architectural styles range from Hindu temple
architecture to Islamic architecture to western classical architecture to
modern and post-modern architecture.

India's Urban Civilization is traceable to Mohenjodaro and Harappa, now in Pakistan. From then on, Indian
architecture and civil engineering continued to develop, and was manifestated temples, palaces and forts across the
Indian subcontinent and neighbouring regions. Architecture and civil engineering was known as sthapatya-kala,
literally "the art of constructing".
The temples of Aihole and Pattadakal are the earliest known examples
of Hindu temples. There are numerous Hindu as well as Buddhist
temples that are known as excellent examples of Indian rock-cut
architecture. According to J.J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson,[7] the
Sulbasutras were appendices to the Vedas giving rules for constructing
altars. "They contained quite an amount of geometrical knowledge, but
the mathematics was being developed, not for its own sake, but purely
for practical religious purposes."
The Hall of Private Audience at Fatehpur Sikri in
Uttar Pradesh, India, an early example of the During the Kushan Empire and Mauryan Empire, Indian architecture
architecture of the Mughal Empire.
and civil engineering reached regions like Baluchistan and
Afghanistan. Statues of Buddha were cut out, covering entire mountain

cliffs, like in Buddhas of Bamyan, Afghanistan. Over a period of time, ancient Indian art of construction blended
with Greek styles and spread to Central Asia. It includes the architecture of various dynasties, such as Hoysala
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architecture, Vijayanagara Architecture and Western Chalukya Architecture.

The Church of St. Anne which is cast in the Indian Baroque Architectural style under the orientation of the most
eminent architects of the time. It is a prime example of the blending of traditional Indian styles with western
European architectural styles.

Buddhist architecture

Southeast Asia

Eastern Asia

Stupa at the top of Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Chinese architecture
From the Neolithic era Longshan Culture and Bronze Age era
Erlitou culture, the earliest rammed earth fortifications exist, with
evidence of timber architecture. The subterranean ruins of the palace
at Yinxu dates back to the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC–1046 BC). In
historic China, architectural emphasis was laid upon the horizontal
axis, in particular the construction of a heavy platform and a large
roof that floats over this base, with the vertical walls not as well
emphasized. This contrasts Western architecture, which tends to
grow in height and depth. Chinese architecture stresses the visual
impact of the width of the buildings. The deviation from this
standard is the tower architecture of the Chinese tradition, which
began as a native tradition and was eventually influenced by the
Buddhist building for housing religious sutras — the stupa — which
came from India. Ancient Chinese tomb model representations of
multiple story residential towers and watchtowers date to the Han
Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD). However, the earliest extant Buddhist
The Iron Pagoda of Kaifeng, built in 1049 during the
Chinese pagoda is the Songyue Pagoda, a 40 m (131 ft) tall
Song Dynasty.
circular-based brick tower built in Henan province in the year 523
AD. From the 6th century onwards, stone-based structures become
more common, while the earliest are from stone and brick arches found in Han Dynasty tombs. The Zhaozhou
Bridge built from 595 to 605 AD is China's oldest extant stone bridge, as well as the world's oldest fully stone
open-spandrel segmental arch bridge.
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The vocational trade of architect, craftsman, and engineer was not as

highly respected in premodern Chinese society as the
scholar-bureaucrats who were drafted into the government by the civil
service examination system. Much of the knowledge about early
Chinese architecture was passed on from one tradesman to his son or
associative apprentice. However, there were several early treatises on
architecture in China, with encyclopedic information on architecture
dating back to the Han Dynasty. The height of the classical Chinese
architectural tradition in writing and illustration can be found in the
Inside the Forbidden City- an example of Chinese
Yingzao Fashi, a building manual written by 1100 and published by
architecture from the 15th century.
Lie Jie (1065–1110) in 1103. In it there are numerous and meticulous
illustrations and diagrams showing the assembly of halls and building
components, as well as classifying structure types and building components.

There were certain architectural features that were reserved solely for buildings built for the Emperor of China. One
example is the use of yellow roof tiles; yellow having been the Imperial color, yellow roof tiles still adorn most of
the buildings within the Forbidden City. The Temple of Heaven, however, uses blue roof tiles to symbolize the sky.
The roofs are almost invariably supported by brackets, a feature shared only with the largest of religious buildings.
The wooden columns of the buildings, as well as the surface of the walls, tend to be red in colour.
Many current Chinese architectural designs follow post-modern and western styles.

Korean architecture
Korean architecture has a long history of 8,000 years. It has its own
cultural identity different from Chinese or Japanese architecture. The
basic construction form is more or less similar to Eastern Asian
building system. From a technical point of view, buildings are
structured vertically and horizontally. A construction usually rises from
a stone subfoundation to a curved roof covered with tiles, held by a
console structure and supported on posts; walls are made of earth
(adobe) or are sometimes totally composed of movable wooden doors.
Architecture is built according to the k'an unit, the distance between
Throne Hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul,
two posts (about 3.7 meters), and is designed so that there is always a
South Korea
transitional space between the "inside" and the "outside."
The console, or bracket structure, is a specific architectonic element that has been designed in various ways through
time. If the simple bracket system was already in use under the Goguryeo kingdom (37 BCE–668 CE)—in palaces in
Pyongyang, for instance—a curved version, with brackets placed only on the column heads of the building, was
elaborated during the early Koryo dynasty (918–1392). The Amita Hall of the Pusok temple in Antong is a good
example. Later on (from the mid-Koryo period to the early Choson dynasty), a multiple-bracket system, or an
inter-columnar-bracket set system, was developed under the influence of Mongol's Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). In
this system, the consoles were also placed on the transverse horizontal beams. Seoul's Namtaemun Gate
Namdaemun, Korea's foremost national treasure, is perhaps the most symbolic example of this type of structure. In
the mid-Choson period, the winglike bracket form appeared (one example is the Yongnyongjon Hall of Jongmyo,
Seoul), which is interpreted by many scholars as an example of heavy Confucian influence in Joseon Korea, which
emphasized simplicity and modesty in such shrine buildings. Only in buildings of importance like palaces or
sometimes temples (Tongdosa, for instance) were the multicluster brackets still used. Confucianism also led to more
sober and simple solutions.
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Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture has as long a history as any other aspect of
Japanese culture. Influenced heavily by Chinese and Korean
architecture, it also shows a number of important differences and
aspects which are uniquely Japanese.
Two new forms of architecture were developed in medieval Japan in
response to the militaristic climate of the times: the castle, a defensive
structure built to house a feudal lord and his soldiers in times of
trouble; and the shoin, a reception hall and private study area designed
to reflect the relationships of lord and vassal within a feudal society.
View of Himeji Castle from Nishi-no-maru
Because of the need to rebuild Japan after World War II, major
Japanese cities contain numerous examples of modern architecture. Japan played some role in modern skyscraper
design, because of its long familiarity with the cantilever principle to support the weight of heavy tiled temple roofs.
New city planning ideas based on the principle of layering or cocooning around an inner space (oku), a Japanese
spatial concept that was adapted to urban needs, were adapted during reconstruction. Modernism became
increasingly popular in architecture in Japan starting in the 1970s.

Pre-Columbian

Mesoamerican architecture
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions
produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica,
(such as the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec) traditions which are best known
in the form of public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and
structures. The distinctive features of Mesoamerican architecture
encompass a number of different regional and historical styles, which
however are significantly interrelated. These styles developed Overview of the central plaza of the Mayan city
throughout the different phases of Mesoamerican history as a result of of Palenque(Chiapas, Mexico), a fine example of
the intensive cultural exchange between the different cultures of the Classic period Mesoamerican Architecture.

Mesoamerican culture area through thousands of years. Mesoamerican

architecture is mostly noted for its pyramids which are the largest such structures outside of Ancient Egypt.
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Incan architecture
Incan architecture consists of the major construction achievements developed
by the Incas. The Incas developed an extensive road system spanning most of
the western length of the continent. Inca rope bridges could be considered the
world's first suspension bridges. Because the Incas used no wheels (It would
have been impractical for the terrain) or horses, they built their roads and
bridges for foot and pack-llama traffic. Much of present day architecture at
the former Inca capital Cuzco shows both Incan and Spanish influences. The
famous lost city Machu Picchu is the best surviving example of Incan
architecture. Another significant site is Ollantaytambo. The Inca were
sophisticated stone cutters whose masonry used no mortar.

View of Machu Picchu

Ancient architecture of North America

Inside what is the present-day United States, the Mississippians[8] and
the Pueblo[9] created substantial public architecture. The Mississippian
culture was among the mound-building peoples, noted for construction
of large earthen platform mounds.
Impermanent buildings, which were often architecturally unique from
region to region, continue to influence American architecture today. In
his summary, "The World of Textiles", North Carolina State's Tushar
Ghosh provides one example: the Denver International Airport's roof is
Cliff Palace of Mesa Verde, in Colorado, United
a fabric structure that was influenced by and/or resembles the tipis of States, created by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.
local cultures. In writing about Evergreen State College [10], Lloyd
Vaughn lists an example of very different native architecture that also influenced contemporary building: the Native
American Studies program is housed in a modern-day longhouse derived from pre-Columbian Pacific Northwest
architecture.

Europe to 1600

Medieval architecture
Surviving examples of medieval secular architecture mainly served for defense. Castles and fortified walls provide
the most notable remaining non-religious examples of medieval architecture. Windows gained a cross-shape for
more than decorative purposes: they provided a perfect fit for a crossbowman to safely shoot at invaders from inside.
Crenellation walls (battlements) provided shelters for archers on the roofs to hide behind when not shooting.

Pre-Romanesque
Western European architecture in the Early Middle Ages may be divided into Early Christian and Pre-Romanesque,
including Merovingian, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Asturian. While these terms are problematic, they nonetheless
serve adequately as entries into the era. Considerations that enter into histories of each period include Trachtenberg's
"historicising" and "modernising" elements, Italian versus northern, Spanish, and Byzantine elements, and especially
the religious and political maneuverings between kings, popes, and various ecclesiastic officials.
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Romanesque

Romanesque, prevalent in medieval Europe during the 11th and 12th

centuries, was the first pan-European style since Roman Imperial
Architecture and examples are found in every part of the continent.
The term was not contemporary with the art it describes, but rather, is
an invention of modern scholarship based on its similarity to Roman
Architecture in forms and materials. Romanesque is characterized by a
use of round or slightly pointed arches, barrel vaults, and cruciform
piers supporting vaults.

Karlštejn is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 by

Gothic
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
The various elements of Gothic architecture emerged in a number of
11th and 12th century building projects, particularly in the Île de France area, but were first combined to form what
we would now recognise as a distinctively Gothic style at the 12th century abbey church of Saint-Denis in
Saint-Denis, near Paris. Verticality is emphasized in Gothic architecture, which features almost skeletal stone
structures with great expanses of glass, pared-down wall surfaces supported by external flying buttresses, pointed
arches using the ogive shape, ribbed stone vaults, clustered columns, pinnacles and sharply pointed spires. Windows
contain beautiful stained glass, showing stories from the Bible and from lives of saints. Such advances in design
allowed cathedrals to rise taller than ever, and it became something of an inter-regional contest to build a church as
high as possible.

- Norse architecture: Borgund Stave Church, Norway - Byzantine

architecture: Church of St. Eleftherios in Athens, Greece (early 13th century) - Russian
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Orthodox architecture: Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Russia - Romanesque

architecture: St. Gereon's Basilica, Cologne, Germany - Gothic architecture: Notre-Dame

de Chartres, France (1194–1260) -

Renaissance architecture
The Renaissance often refers to the Italian Renaissance that began in
the 14th century, but recent research has revealed the existence of
similar movements around Europe before the 15th century;
consequently, the term "Early Modern" has gained popularity in
describing this cultural movement. This period of cultural rebirth is
often credited with the restoration of scholarship in the Classical
Antiquities and the absorption of new scientific and philosophical
knowledge that fed the arts.

The development from Medieval architecture concerned the way St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
geometry mediated between the intangibility of light and the tangibility
of the material as a way of relating divine creation to mortal existence. This relationship was changed in some
measure by the invention of Perspective which brought a sense of infinity into the realm of human comprehension
through the new representations of the horizon, evidenced in the expanses of space opened up in Renaissance
painting, and helped shape new humanist thought.

Perspective represented a new understanding of space as a universal, a priori fact, understood and controllable
through human reason. Renaissance buildings therefore show a different sense of conceptual clarity, where spaces
were designed to be understood in their entirety from a specific fixed viewpoint. The power of Perspective to
universally represent reality was not limited to describing experiences, but also allowed it to anticipate experience
itself by projecting the image back into reality.
The Renaissance spread to France in the late 15th century, when Charles VIII returned in 1496 with several Italian
artists from his conquest of Naples. Renaissance chateaux were built in the Loire Valley, the earliest example being
the Château d'Amboise, and the style became dominant under Francis I (1515–47). (See Châteaux of the Loire
Valley). The Château de Chambord is a combination of Gothic structure and Italianate ornament, a style which
progressed under architects such as Sebastiano Serlio, who was engaged after 1540 in work at the Château de
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Fontainebleau.
Architects such as Philibert Delorme, Androuet du Cerceau, Giacomo Vignola, and Pierre Lescot, were inspired by
the new ideas. The southwest interior facade of the Cour Carree of the Louvre in Paris was designed by Lescot and
covered with exterior carvings by Jean Goujon. Architecture continued to thrive in the reigns of Henri II and Henri
III.
In England the first great exponent of Renaissance architecture was Inigo Jones (1573–1652), who had studied
architecture in Italy where the influence of Palladio was very strong. Jones returned to England full of enthusiasm for
the new movement and immediately began to design such buildings as the Queen's House at Greenwich in 1616 and
the Banqueting House at Whitehall three years later. These works with their clean lines and symmetry, were
revolutionary in a country still enamoured with mullion windows, crenellations and turrets.

European and colonial architecture

With the rise of various European colonial empires from the 16th
century onward through the early 20th century, the new stylistic
trends of Europe were exported to or adopted by locations around
the world, often evolving into new regional variations.

Baroque architecture
The periods of Mannerism and the Baroque that followed the
Renaissance signaled an increasing anxiety over meaning and
representation. Important developments in science and philosophy
had separated mathematical representations of reality from the rest
of culture, fundamentally changing the way humans related to
their world through architecture. It would reach its most extreme
and embellished development under the decorative tastes of
Rococo.

Sicilian Baroque: Basilica della Collegiata, Catania,

Sicily, Italy.

Return to Classicism
In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the works and theories of Andrea
Palladio (from 16th century Venice) would again be interpreted and
adopted in England, spread by the English translation of his I Quattro
Libri dell'Architettura, and pattern books such as Vitruvius Brittanicus
by Colen Campbell. This Palladian Architecture and continued
Plate from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius classical imagery would in turn go on to influence Thomas Jefferson
Brittanicus. and other early architects of the United States in their search for a new
national architecture.
History of architecture 15

By the mid-18th century, there tended to be more restrained decoration and usage of authentic classical forms than in
the Baroque, informed by increased visitation to classical ruins as part of the Grand Tour, coupled with the
excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in North America between c. 1780 and
1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The term is also
used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds
to the middle-class classicism of Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Regency style in Britain and to the
French Empire style.

Revivalism and Orientalism

"What Style Shall We Build In?" - Heinrich Huebsch. The 19th Century was dominated by a wide variety of stylistic
revivals, variations, and interpretations.

Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture[11] denotes the academic classical architectural
style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style
"Beaux-Arts" is above all the cumulative product of two and a half
centuries of instruction under the authority, first of the Académie
royale d'architecture, then, following the Revolution, of the
Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. The
organization under the Ancien Régime of the competition for the
Grand Prix de Rome in architecture, offering a chance to study in
Rome, imprinted its codes and esthetic on the course of instruction,
Palais Garnier is a cornerpiece of Beaux-Arts
which culminated during the Second Empire (1850–1870) and the architecture characterized by Émile Zola as "the
Third Republic that followed. The style of instruction that produced opulent bastard of all styles".
Beaux-Arts architecture continued without a major renovation until
1968.[12]

Art Nouveau
Around 1900 a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate
traditional precedents with new social demands and technological possibilities. The work of Victor Horta and Henry
van de Velde in Brussels, Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in
Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.

Early Modern architecture

Early Modern architecture began with a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the
simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. By the 1940s these styles had
largely consolidated and been identified as the International Style.
The exact characteristics and origins of modern architecture are still open to interpretation and debate. An important
trigger appears to have been the maxim credited to Louis Sullivan: "form follows function". Functionalism, in
architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This
statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession,
particularly in regard to modern architecture.
History of architecture 16

Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that
developed in Northern Europe during the first decades of the 20th
century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
The style was characterised by an early-modernist adoption of novel
materials, formal innovation, and very unusual massing, sometimes
inspired by natural biomorphic forms, sometimes by the new technical
possibilities offered by the mass production of brick, steel and
especially glass. Many expressionist architects fought in World War I
and their experiences, combined with the political turmoil and social Goetheanum by Rudolf Steiner in 1923

upheaval that followed the German Revolution of 1919, resulted in a

utopian outlook and a romantic socialist agenda.[13] Economic conditions severely limited the number of built
commissions between 1914 and the mid 1920s,[14] resulting in many of the most important expressionist works
remaining as projects on paper, such as Bruno Taut's Alpine Architecture and Hermann Finsterlin's Formspiels.
Ephemeral exhibition buildings were numerous and highly significant during this period. Scenography for theatre
and films provided another outlet for the expressionist imagination,[15] and provided supplemental incomes for
designers attempting to challenge conventions in a harsh economic climate.

International Style
The International style was a major architectural trend of the 1920s and
1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the
formative decades of modernism, before World War II. The term had
its origin from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and
Philip Johnson which identified, categorised and expanded upon
characteristics common to modernism across the world. As a result, the
focus was more on the stylistic aspects of modernism. The basic design
principles of the International Style thus constitute part of modernism.

The ideas of Modernism were developed especially in what was taught The Glass Palace, a celebration of transparency,
at the German Bauhaus School in Weimar (from 1919), Dessau in Heerlen, The Netherlands (1935)
(between 1926–32) and finally Berlin between 1932–33, under the
leadership first of its founder Walter Gropius, then Hannes Meyer, and finally Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Modernist theory in architecture resided in the attempt to bypass the question of what style a building should be built
in, a concern that had overshadowed 19th-century architecture, and the wish to reduce form to its most minimal
expression of structure and function. In the USA, Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock treated this new
phenomenon in 1931 as if it represented a new style - the International Style, thereby misrepresenting its primary
mission as merely a matter of eliminating traditional ornament. The core effort to pursue Modern architecture as an
abstract, scientific programme was more faithfully carried forward in Europe, but issues of style always
overshadowed its stricter and more puritan goals, not least in the work of Le Corbusier.
History of architecture 17

Contemporary architecture

Modern architecture
Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure
and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope
varying widely.[16] Modern architecture has continued into the 21st century as a contemporary style, especially for
corporate office buildings. In a broader sense, modern architecture began at the turn of the 20th century with efforts
to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the
modernization of society. It would take the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles,
some in tension with one another, and often equally defying such classification.[16]

Critical regionalism
Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to
counter the placelessness and lack of meaning in Modern Architecture
by using contextual forces to give a sense of place and meaning. The
term critical regionalism was first used by Alexander Tzonis and Liane
Lefaivre and later more famously by Kenneth Frampton.
Frampton put forth his views in "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six
points of an architecture of resistance." He evokes Paul Ricœur's
question of "how to become modern and to return to sources; how to
The Sydney Opera House - designed to evoke the
revive an old, dormant civilization and take part in universal sails of yachts in Sydney harbour
civilization". According to Frampton, critical regionalism should adopt
modern architecture critically for its universal progressive qualities but at the same time should value responses
particular to the context. Emphasis should be on topography, climate, light, tectonic form rather than scenography
and the tactile sense rather than the visual. Frampton draws from phenomenology to supplement his arguments.
History of architecture 18

Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is an international style whose first examples are
generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence
present-day architecture. Postmodernity in architecture is generally thought to
be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in
response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. As with
many cultural movements, some of postmodernism's most pronounced and
visible ideas can be seen in architecture. The functional and formalized
shapes and spaces of the modernist movement are replaced by
unapologetically diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own
sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound.

Classic examples of modern architecture are the Lever House and the
Seagram Building in commercial space, and the architecture of Frank Lloyd
Wright or the Bauhaus movement in private or communal spaces.
Transitional examples of postmodern architecture are the Portland Building in
Portland and the Sony Building (New York City) (originally AT&T Building)
in New York City, which borrows elements and references from the past and
1000 de La Gauchetière, with reintroduces color and symbolism to architecture. A prime example of
ornamented and strongly defined top, inspiration for postmodern architecture lies along the Las Vegas Strip, which
middle and bottom. Contrast with the was studied by Robert Venturi in his 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas
modernist Seagram Building and Torre
celebrating the strip's ordinary and common architecture. Venturi opined that
Picasso.
"Less is a bore", inverting Mies Van Der Rohe's dictum that "Less is more".

Deconstructivist architecture
Deconstructivism in architecture is a development of postmodern
architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of
fragmentation, non-linear processes of design, an interest in
manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and apparent
non-Euclidean geometry,[17] (i.e., non-rectilinear shapes) which serve
to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as
structure and envelope. The finished visual appearance of buildings
that exhibit the many deconstructivist "styles" is characterised by a Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North in
stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos. Manchester comprises three apparently
intersecting curved volumes.
Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement
include the 1982 Parc de la Villette architectural design competition (especially the entry from Jacques Derrida and
Peter Eisenman[18] and Bernard Tschumi's winning entry), the Museum of Modern Art's 1988 Deconstructivist
Architecture exhibition in New York, organized by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, and the 1989 opening of the
Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, designed by Peter Eisenman. The New York exhibition featured works by
Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelblau, and Bernard
Tschumi. Since the exhibition, many of the architects who were associated with Deconstructivism have distanced
themselves from the term. Nonetheless, the term has stuck and has now, in fact, come to embrace a general trend
within contemporary architecture.
History of architecture 19

Notes
[1] The Romans were the first builders in Europe, perhaps the first in the world, fully to appreciate the advantages of the arch, the vault and the
dome.(Robertson, D.S.: Greek and Roman Architecture, 2nd edn., Cambridge 1943, p.231)
[2] Historical Society of Ghana. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, The Society, 1957, pp81
[3] Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa. Boston: Little Brown, 1959, pp86
[4] http:/ / www. iran-daily. com/ 1385/ 2631/ pdf/ i12. pdf
[5] Islam Art and Architecture. Markus Hattstein, Peter Delius. 2000. p96. ISBN 3-8290-2558-0
[6] Discovery of brick tablet in Jiroft proves 3rd millennium BC civilization (http:/ / www. payvand. com/ news/ 05/ jan/ 1290. html)
[7] O'Connor, J. J. and E. F. Robertson, Overview of Indian Mathematics (http:/ / www-history. mcs. st-and. ac. uk/ ~history/ HistTopics/
Indian_mathematics. html), School of Mathematics, University of St Andrew, Scotland.
[8] "Mississippian culture" (http:/ / www. answers. com/ topic/ mississippian-culture). Answers.com. .
[9] "Pueblo architecture" (http:/ / www. britannica. com/ EBchecked/ topic/ 482743/ pueblo-architecture). Britannica. .
[10] http:/ / academic. evergreen. edu/ curricular/ NAS/
[11] The phrase Beaux Arts is usually translated as "Fine Arts" in non-architectural English contexts.
[12] Robin Middleton, Editor. The Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-century French Architecture. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982).
[13] Jencks, p.59
[14] Sharp, p.68
[15] Pehnt, p.163
[16] "Growth, Efficiency, and Modernism" (http:/ / www. gsa. gov/ graphics/ pbs/ GEMbook. pdf). U.S. General Services Administration. 2003
(Revised 2006). pp. 14–15. . Retrieved March 2011.
[17] Husserl, Origins of Geometry, Introduction by Jacques Derrida
[18] Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman, Chora L Works (New York: Monacelli Press, 1997)

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History of architecture 20

Further reading
• Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture Fletcher, Banister; Cruickshank, Dan, Architectural Press, 20th
edition, 1996. ISBN 0-7506-2267-9

External links
• History of architecture (http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Architecture/History/) at the Open Directory Project
• The Society of Architectural Historians web site (http://www.sah.org/)
• The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain web site (http://www.sahgb.org.uk/)
• The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand web site (http://www.sahanz.net/)
• European Architectural History Network web site (http://www.eahn.org/)
• Western Architecture Timeline (http://www.essentialhumanities.net/s_art_arch_time.php)
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