Brief History of Architecture
Introduction
What is Arhitecture?
Elements of Architecture
Rhythm
Scale
Light
Texture
Color
Ornament
Acoustics
Site
Space
Weight and Mass
Ancient World
Prehistoric
Historical Setting
City of Jericho c.7000 BCE
Stonehenge c.3000-1500 BCE
Macchu Picchu
Mesopotamia
Timeline. Structures. Key Terms. Key People. Inventions. Ishtar Gate, Babylon c.575 BCE. Processional Way. Babylon. ziggurat. A tall, terraced tower with up to seven successively smaller stages, placed one on top of the other, and a temple at the summit. (Think of a square, multitiered wedding cake.) Conceived as artificial mountains, which the priest-king climbed to commune with the gods.. Herodotus. Greek Historian 450 BCE "Babylon surpasses in splendor any city in the known world.". Wheel. Writing. First legal code.
Key Terms
Megalith. Cromlech. Sarsen Stones. Trilothon.
Ancient Egypt
Historical Setting. Structures. Key People. Inventions. Key Terms. Pyramids. Temples. Zoser c.2700 BCE. Imhotep. Cheops. Chephren. Mycerinus. Ben-Ben. Pyramids of Giza c.2570-2500 BCE. Stepped Pyramid of Zoser c.2700 BCE. Red Pyramid. Bent Pyramid. Collapsed Pyramid.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
21st Century
USA. Introduction. Structures. Architects. Key Terms.