Architectural Survey

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Pyramids at Giza, Egypt, c.2500 BCE

Ziggurat at Ur, Sumer, c. 2100 BCE

Stonehenge, c.2000 BCE, Neolithic

Iktinos and Kallikrates, PARTHENON, Athens, c.440 BCE

Classical Greece

Colosseum, Rome, 79 CE

PANTHEON, Rome, c. 120

Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles

HAGIA SOHIA, Istanbul, c. 530

Byzantine

St. Sernin, Toulouse, France, c.1100, Romanesque

Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, c.1200, Gothic

Brunelleschi, Florence Cathedral dome, Florence, c.1420

Renaissance

Bramante, Michelangelo (& others),

St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome

c. 1500, High Renaissance

Borromini, San Carlo, Rome

Christopher Wren

St. Paul’s, London

BAROQUE17th century

La Vau & Hardouin-MansartPalace of Versailles, Versailles, Fr

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, c.1800

Classical Revival

Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, England, 1851

Industrial Revolution

Garnier, Paris Opera House, 1870, Romantic era

• Antonio Gaudi, Casa Milá, Barcelona, 1907• Art Nouveau

Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

Chicago, c.1900, beginning of skyscrapers

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Shop Block

Dessau, Germany, 1925

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1909

Falling Water, 1939

Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York

1951, International Style

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye (1929) & Notre Dame du Haut (1955), Ronchamp, France

Michael Graves, Portland Building, 1980

Postmodern

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain,

1990, Deconstructivism