EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE

Character: simplicity, massiveness, monumentality

Material: stone and brick
System: columnar and trabaeted
Comparative analysis:
Plans- irregular and asymmetrical
Wall- no windows (batter wall)
Openings- doors are square headed
Roof- flat roof
Columns- interior only, 6d
- bud & bell, palm, foliated, hatthor head, osiris,
polygonal
Mouldings- torus and gorge
PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS:
Egyptian Tombs:
Mastaba- stairway, halfshrunk, elaborate structure
elements: offering chapel w/ stele (slab) serdab
(statue chamber) sarcophagus
Pyramid- square in plan, oriented in cardinal sides
elements: offering chapel mortuary
chapel
elevated causeway (passageway)
valley building (embalmment)
types:
step (zoser)
slope
blunt (seneferu)
Rock-cut- mountain side tombs
elements: passages
sepultural chamber
Egyptian Temples:

ASIASIASTIC ARCHITECTURE
WEST ASIA
BABYLONEAN AND ASSYRIAN
Character: simplicity, massiveness, grandeur
Material: brick
System: arch and vault
Comparative analysis:
Plan
- palaces are elevated on platforms w/
room covered by vaults
Walls
- are built with sun died bricks,
battlement cresting
ASSYRIA finished w/ chiseled alabaster slab
Openings - doors are semicircular headed w/
sculptured monstrers
Roof
- externally appeared flat but covered by
brick vaults internally
Columns - no columns
Mouldings- no mouldings
Ornaments- chiseled alabaster slab
Principal buildings:
Ziggurat: holy mountains
Archaic ziggurats- rectangular w/ upper temple
Multi level ziggurats- 2 to 5 tiers
Assyrian ziggurats- square in plan w/ continous
ramp w/ fire altar
Palace: usually built by Assyrian
elements: seraglio- palace proper
harem- private family apartments
khan- service chamber
Palace of Sarbon, Corsabat

CULT TEMPLE- worship of the gods

MORTUARY TEMPLE- to honor the pharos
elements: pylon (entrance or gateway)
hypaethral court (open to the sky court)
hypostyle hall (pillard or columnar hall)
sanctuary
MINOR TEMPLE- mammisi temple (carved along mountain)
OBELISK TEMPLE (monumental pillars, square in plan)
Sphinx: (mythical monsters)
Mastaba of Thi, SakkaraPyramid of Gizeh- Cheops, Chepren, Mykerinos
Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
The Great Temple of Arnak (greatest example of Egyptian
temple)
Great Sphinx at Gizeh (god horus)
Egyptian Architects:
Senusurets- built the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis
Amenemhat I- founded the great temple at Karnak
Thothmes I- began the additions to the temple of Amnon
Karnak
Amenophis III- built the famous Colossi of Memnon
Rameses I- began the hypostyle hall at Karnak
Seti I- built the temple at Abu- Simber
Ptolemy II- built the pharos of Light House
Ptolemy III- founded the Great Seradeum at Alexandria

PERSIAN
(architect of light and airy magnificence, open type plan)
Material: stone for columns, brick for wall surface, timber for
roof
System: royal palace are built on platforms to achieve
monumentality
: columnar and trabaeted
Comparative analysis:
Plan
- open widely spaced columns
Wall
- made of bricks covered w/ polychrome
brickwork
Openings - windows and doors are square headed
Roof
- flatroof made of timber
Columns - tall & slender w/ flutted shafts, 15d &
scroll, twin horse capital
Mouldings- Greek & Egyptian
Ornament- polychrome brickwork
Palace Platform, Persopolis
Propylaea, Xerxes
Palace of Darius
Palace of Cerces
Hypostyle Hall of Cerces
Hall of Hundred Columns

GREEK ARCHITECTURE
Character:
Simplicity & harmony
Purity of line
Perfection of proportions
Refinement of details
Material: marble
System: columnar and trabaeted
Early Period/ Minoan or Mycenaean
Principal buildings:
Megaron: domestic unit
elements: enclosed porch
megaron
proper
thalamussleeping room
Walls:
1. cyclopean
2. polygonal
3. rectangular
4. inclined blocks
Tombs:
Rock -Cut- rectangular chamber cut
deep into the mountainside
Tholos- is a subterranean vault, circular
in shape
- dromos- passageway
Palaces:
Palace King Minos, Knossos
Helenic Period- religious structures
Comparative Analysis: (Greek Temples)
Simple & balance, symmetrical
Rectangular
Principal buildings:
Temples:
elements: front portico
crepidomastylobate, steriobate
pronaos
naos
epinaos/
posticum w/ or w/o opisthodomos
peroma- space
bet the naos wall and columns

Number of columns:
Henostyle
Dinostyle
Tristyle
Tetrastyle
Pentastyle
Hexastyle
Hectastyle
Octostyle
Ennastyle
Decastyle
Dodestyle
Arrangement of Columns:
Antis, Amphi-antis

Prostyle, Amphi-prostyle
Peripteral, Pseudo-peropteral
Edipteral, Pseudo-dipteral
Comparative analysis:
Wall- solidly constructed of blocks or stones, use of
dowels or clamps
Openings- doors, windows & colonnade are square
headed
Roof- w/ sloping rafters covered w/ thin marble
slab to permit light
- lacunaria (coffer)
Column- principal external feature
Orders Introduced by Greeks:
Doric Order
Ionic order
Corinthian Order
Parts:
Entablature- cornice
frieze
architrade
Column- capital
shaft
base
Proportion of Greek Orders
Doric Order- favored by Greeks
Column- 4-6 D
Tablature- height of order
Ionic Order
Column- 9D
Tablature- 1/5 height of order
Corinthian Order
Column- 10D
Tablature- 1/5 height of order
Doric Order:
Abachus
Echinus
Trachelion
Hypotrachelion
Entasis
Ionic Order:
Abachus
Echinus- volute
Attic base if 2 torus
Torus
Plinth
Corinthian Order:
Abachus
Cauli-coli
Acanthus leaves
Intercolumnation Spaces:
Hypnostyle- 1 d
Systyle- space bet col 2d
Eustyle- space 2 1/4d
Diastyle- 3d
Areostyle- 3 d
Principal buildings:
Temples:
elements: acroterion
pediment
tympanum
entablature
metope
triglyph
raking cornice
crepidoma

- holds
the statue of Athena
Theater of Dionysius
Temple of Nike
Apteros- archt
Callicrates
- Ionic
temple
Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum- 2nd largest
- archt Theron
- 3 naos
Entablature spacing:
Monotriglyph
Ditriglyph
Polytriglyph
Mouldingsparabola
hyperbola
elipse
Basis of Shape of MouldingsCyma riversa/ olgee- Waterleaf & tongue
Cyma recta- Antheneon or honey suckle

- Atlantes figure
Temple of Artemis- archt Deinocrates
- master
sculptor- Scopas
Greek Theater- hallow out of hillside
- 2/3 of circle
elements: cavea
orchestra- complete circle
at center
skene- proscenia
(oration)
- paracenia- width
of orchestra

Ovolo- Egg & dart or egg & tongue

Atragal/ bead- Bead & reel
Torus- Guilloche or plait
Corona- Fret
Fillet cavetto escocia- Plain
Sculptured reliefs- free standing statuary- single or
group figures
Types: bigas- 2 horse chariot
Quadbigas- 4 horse chariot
Themenos- sacred enclosure
Acropolis, Athens
Propelea- gateway
Pinacothecapaintings
Glyptothecasculptures
Statue of Athena
Promochos
Erechtheonunusual because of
carriage porch
Old Temple of
Athena
Parthenon- largest
geatest example of greek
architecture
archt. Ictinus
master sculptorCallicrates
- Doric
temple
naos- made of gold and
ivory

- epiceniumbackground
Theater of Dionysus, Athens- prototype
- largest for 30,000 people
Theater of Epidauror- most beautiful &
preserved
- archt
Polycletos
Helenistic Period- civic structure
Principal buildings:
Agora- town square, center of social & business
life
Stoa- shed, long colonnade
Prytaneion- senate building
Bouleuterion- council palace
Audeion- smaller scale theater, used for musical
Stadium- foot race course
Hipodrome- hose chariot racing, prototype of
roman circus
Palaestra- resting school
Gymnasium- place for all types of physical
exercises
Tomb- mosoleum
elements: pediment
podium

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Character:
Vastness & magnificence
Olstentation & ornateness
Material: pozzolana & lime
System: columnar, trabaeted & arcuated
Comparative analysis:
Plan- assymetrical due to complexity of needs of
romans
Walls- made of stone & concrete
Types:Opus quadratum
Opus incertum
Opus reticulatum
Opus testaceum
Opus mixtum
- introduction of buttresses
Types:Niche/ hemicycle- retaining wall,
detached
Spur buttress- attached to wall
Pinnacle- similar to spur but
more pronounced

elements of arch: keystone

extrados
intrados
string course
impost
abutment
plinth
archivault
voussoir blocks
stilting
rise
spring line
span
Roof- vaulting system
types: semi circular/ wagon headed vault
(made of bricks)
cross vault
dome/ cupula

ColumnComposite- Ionic volute w/ Corinthian

Tuscan- similar to Greek Doric w/ base
Column- 7D
Tablature- 1 3/4D
Doric OrderColumn- 8D
Tablature- 2D
Ionic Order

Column- 9D
Tablature- 21/4d
Corinthian Order
Column- 10D
Tablature- 2 1/2D
Mouldings- heavily decorated
Ornament- mosaic- floor, wall ceiling (Tesserrae)
types: opusteselatum- square for ceilings
opusectile- tesserae cut into
shapes for wall
opuspilatum- inchevron for
floor
- mural paintings
- accantus scroll- most popular
Principal buildings:
Forum- a central open shape used as a meeting
place, market or rendevous for
political demonstration.
Forum Romanum- oldest & most
important
Forum of Trajan- largest forum
Rectangular Temples
Temple of Venus, Rome- Appolodorus of
Damascus
Pantheon Rome ( Sta. Maria Rotunda)Agripa (corinthian temple)

Basilica- hall of justice & commercial exchange

Trajans Basilica, Rome- Appolodorus of
Damascus
Thermae- palatial public bath
Balneum- private bath for family
elements:
1. main building- tepidariumwarm lounge
- calidariumhot water bath
sudotorium- hottest room
- frigidarium- cooling room
w/ piscana
or
swimming
bath
unctoria- perfume & oil
2. xystus- large open space w/
landscaping
,stadium fro
various types
of athletic
sports
3. outer ring of apartmentslecture room,
exedrae, stores
4. hypocaust- furnace
Thermae of Caracalla
Thermae Of Diocletian
Theaters- orchestra is used by important people
- skene became the stage
Theater of Marcellus, Rome- concrete

Theater Orange- partly concrete

Amphitheatre- gladitoria contests
Colloseum, Rome- vast ellipse
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Circus- for horse & chariot racing
elements: spina
carceres
Circus maximus, Rome- largest
Tombs
Classes:
1. Coemetera w/
Columbaria- a niche

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Loculi- recess for

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plan
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Mausoleum of
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Mausoleum of
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Hadrian, Rome (Castle of Angelo)
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3. Pyramidal tombs
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4. Temple shaded tombs
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5. Sculptured memorialsi
minor tombs of varied designs
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6. Cenotaphs- memorial
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Commemorative Monuments
1. Triumphal arch- 3 openings, for
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emperors
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Pilar of victory/ memorial columnrecord triumph of victorius generals
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Trajans Columnh
Doric column, arch
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Titus
3. Rostral column- victorius
d
campaigns done in sea victories
e
Palaces
a
Palaces of Emeperors, Rome- by
d
emeperor Agustus
Palace of Diocletian, Spalato- largest
Roman Houses
c
Villa- country house
o
Insula- tenement house for workers
r
Domus- private house
p
elements:
s
1. prothyrum
e
2. atriumentrance court
w
open to the sky
/
c
impluvium- water
cistern
w
3. tablium- open
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saloon

4.

peristyle- inner
colonnaded
court (open)
5. cubiculabedrooms
6. triclina- dining
room
7. oecusreception room
8. alae- reception
for
conversation
9. kitchen &
pantry
Aqueduct- for water supply of towns & cities
Aquaclaudia- Caligula & Claudius
Pontgard, Nimes- mos manificent 25
miles long
Pons- roman bridges
Fountains
Types: Locus/ Lacus- large basin of
water
Salientes- provide water

Etruscan Period
Introduced radiating arch
Tuscan column/ similar to Greek Doric w/ base
Atrium in domestic planning

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE

Character:
Simplicity in design and treatment
Coarseness in execution
Material: savaged from pagan structures
Basilican plan for churches (east oriented)
System: trabaeted & arcuated
Comparative analysis:
Plan- evolved from roman basilica
built on site of saints burial places
elements: bell tower
atrium- with fountain
narthex
nave- sude aisles
choir- cancelli (low walls)
high altar- baldochino,
crypt/ confessio/ cimborium
ambo
apse- for bishops &
cardinals
Materials: Masonry & concrete
Walls- exterior- concrete w/ plain plasters
- interior- mosaic
Openings- arcaded, doors & windows are span w/
semicircular arches lintels or
entablature
Roofs-Nave- timber trusses
Side aisles- semicircular arches
Apse- side dome
Columns- 4 roman columns
Mouldings- roman mouldings are adapted, very
crude
Ornament- linked to Christian religion
2 basic ornaments: mosaic
mural
paintings
Example of Basilican Churches:
Basilican Church of St. Peter, Rome
Church of St. John Lateran
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
Removed the atrium
Narthex became the entrance
Covered by dome roof- external features
Character:
Simplicity in external design
Richness in internal treatment
Material: bricks used for walls & concrete for domes
Marble for columns
System: fusion of domical construction
Classic columnar & trabaeted style
Comparative analysis:
Plan- Greek cross plan
Walls- bricks
Exterior- brick in various design
Interior- mosaic & marble
Openings- are spanned by semicircular arches
or lintels
Windows- 3 thick translucent marble
Roof- dome
Types: Simple- pendentives, dome
Compound- supported by
drum
Melon shaped- with flutings
Columns: dosseret block, soffit, capitals
Mouldings: Billet moulding

Mosaic
Mural paintings
Ornaments: symbolism
Peacock- symbol of eternal life
Endless knot- eternity
Chirho- Jesus Christ
Sta. Soffia of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia- for
emperor Justinian
Arch. Arthemus of Tralles
Isodorus of Miletus
- now a muslim mosque
St. Mark, Venice Italy- most important example
of Byzantine
ROMANESQUE- roman like art
Character: Sober & Dignified
Material: stone & brick for Germany
System: arcuated
principle of equilibrium through vaulting system
made up of rib & panel vaulting
Comparative analysis:
Plan- Latin Cross plan (west oriented)
External feature- towers on nave & transept,
facades
Walls- supported by pilaster strips

Windows- rose or wheel windows

Roof: Rib & panel Vaulting

1. quadripartite

2.

sexpartite

Column:

Mouldings- are usually in horizontal courses,

deviated from roman
Ornamets- fresco paintings- principal
- vegetable & animals forms
Principal buildings:
Monastery
Elements: Monastery church
Cloister court

Inner court
Common court

Roof- ribbed & paneled vaulting

Column- group column
Mouldings- 45 deg from wall
Ornaments- stained glass & figured sculpture

Countries that adapted Romanesque:

Countries that adapted Gothic:
ITALY
Central Italy- ornamental faade- rising one from
another
North Italy- rose window
Pizza Cathedral
Pizza Campanile
Cathedral
Baptistery

FRENCH ROMANESQUE
Southern France- Muslim influence due to pointed
arch
Northern Italy- flanking towers
Madeleine Vezelay- earliest form of
cross-pointed vault in France
Abbaye-Aux Homes, Caen Orderprototype of Gothic
GERMAN ROMANESQUE
East & west apse
Worms Cathedral- emperor
Charlemagne
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
France- style ogivale
- lofty & aspiry quality
- structural honesty
- economy in use of material
System: Arcuated w/ Pointed Arches
Material: stone
Principal building: Cathedral- Latin Cross (west oriented)
Plan- asymmetrical
Walls- rubble masonry, buttress to support walls

FRENCH GOTHIC
1. Primary/ Lancet Period- pointed arches &
geometric tracery windows
2. Rayonnant Period- circular windows w/ wheel
tracery
3. Flamboyant Period- flame like or free flowing
tracery
Principal Buildings:
Cathedrals
Notre Dame, Paris- oldest Gothic
Cathedral
By bishop
Maurice De Sully
Finest &
most characteristic French gothic
Chartres Cathedral- 130 stained galss
windows
Profussion
of sculptured figures in west front
Rheims Cathedral- coronation church of
kings of France
500
carved statues on west facades
Ameins Cathedral- archt Robert de
Luzarches
Typical
French cathedral
Carved
woodwork on choir stalls
Beauvais Cathedral- tallest in Europe,
157 to the vault
1 of the
wonders of medieval in France
Fortified Towns
Carcassone- 50 towers, moat & walls
Castles
Chateau de Perrefonds- elongated
location, overlooking town
Arch.
Viollet- le- Duc
ENGLISH GOTHIC
English gothic vaulting: formerets
diagonal ribs
ridge ribs
transverse ribs
tierceron
boss- covering of ribs (pendant)

Moulding- nail head

Double cone

Manor House
Hampton Court Palace- archt Cardinal
Wolsey

Dog tooth

cable
University
University of Oxford
Cambridge University

Ball flower
Tablet flower

BELGIUM & DEUTCH GOTHIC

-eastern & western apse

Embatled sandwich
Classification of English Gothic Mouldings:
1. bowtel- of a circle
2. pointed bowtel- roll moulding in w/c
2 faces meet in a blunt arris
3. bracket/ brace- double ogee
4. wave moulding- a slight connexity
followed by hallows
5. keel moulding
6. scroll
7. casement
8. hood & label
Types of Trusses:
1. tie beam
2. trusted rafter
3. hammer beam
4. collar beam
5. aisle roof
Principal Buildings:
Cathedrals
1st div- Cathedral of the Old Foundationserved by secular clergy
York Cathedral- largest
cathedral among English cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral- English
gothic caharcteristic

Monastic Foundation- served by monks or regular clergy

herbury Cathedral- 1st Norman church
hester Cathedral- longest gothic cathedral in Europe

Principal Buildings:
Hall Church
St. Elizabeth, Manburg- typical church in
Germany
Cologne Cathedral- largest gothic church
in Northern Europe
ITALIAN GOTHIC
Milan Cathedral- 2nd largest church in Europe
archt Henrich Von Gmunden
Sienna Cathedral- stripped marble found in walls &
tiers of church
Santo Corce- Arnolfo de Cambio, 1 of largest in
Europe
Florence Cathedral- combination of gothic &
renaissance
Arnolfo de Cambio
Famous group bldg
in the world
Doges Palace in Italy- civic example gothic in Italy
Giovanni &
Bartolome Buon
Ca D Oro- one of the famous palatial homes
during gothic period
SPANISH GOTHIC
- influenced by Muslim art- excessive ornament
foun in retablo
- retablo & grilles or rajas- back of altar
Civic Cathedral- largest Cathedral in Europe

rd

3 div- Cathedrals of the New

Foundation- served by bishops
presence of 2 chapels- lady
chapel- Virgin Mary

Largest Church:
St. Peters Cathedral
Civic Cathedral
William Cathedral
Colon Cathedral
St. Pauls, London

- chantry chapel- patrons are burried

Monastery
Westminster Abbey- largest Benedictine
Founation
Triple
group of monastery
Coronation church & burial place for Eng kings
Royal
Palace- parliament & Big Ben
Westminster Church- highest

Baroque- curve lines

1. twisted column/ solomonica
2. pediment
segmented
scrolled

Castles
Tower of London- builder Bishop Gundolf
for William I

RENAISSANCE- rebirth of classical

Character: Dignity & Formality achieved thru symmetry
System: Trabaeted and Arcuated
Elements: pediment, horizontal cornice, columnar arcade

open

swan neck

Baldazar Peruzzi- went back to Greek

cross plan

broken

Antonio de Sangallo- younger, extended

vestibule

Rococo
Comparative analysis:
Plans- symmetrical
Walls- often constructed w/ ashlar masonry, bricks
for Germany
Exterior wall- rustification- dado height
1.20m
Doors & windows- semi circula head w/ greek
entablature
Roof- semi- circular vaults
- dome or drum w/ semi circular windows
Columns- classic orders
Mouldings- roman mouldings
Ornaments- fresco paintings
Exterior color effect- sgrafitto (colored
plaster)

Designed the campanile

Proposed central dome
Michael Angelo- change to Greek cross
plan
Redesigned
surrounding chapels & apses
Designed the
dome
Giacomo Della Porta w/ Dominico
Fontona- completed the dome
Vignola- added side dome
Carlo Maderna- change into Latin cross
plan & colonnade
Bernini- designed the entrance piazza
containing 284 ionic columns

Countries that adapted Rennaisance:

Panthenon, Rome- largest dome
Roman
Florence Cathedral, Italy- 138
Renaissance
St Peters Basilica, Italy- 137 1/2
Renaissance
St Paul, London- 112
Renaissance
Sta Soffia, Constantinople- 107
Byzantine

ITALY- birth place of renaissance

Florence- birthplace, typical form
Rome- typical
Venice- receded frontage, contextualization w/
environment
Brunelleschi- most famous architect in Italy
Dome of Florence Cathedralgothic & renaissance
Palazzo Pitti- largest except
for Vatican
Alberti- author of first architecture book after
invention of printing
De re Aedificatoria
Church of Santa Andrea, Mantuaprototype of later renaissance
Bramante- first Roman architect of renaissance
time
Pazzo Della Cancellaria
Vatican Palace, Rome
Raphael- cousin, pupil of baramnte & one of the
greatest painters
Vatical Loggie
VignolaVilla of Pope Julius, Rome
Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola- most
maginificent of Roman palaces
Gesu Church, Rome- prototype of
Jesuit Church in baroque style
Michael AngeloMedici Mausoleum- wealthiest family in
Italy
Capitol, Rome- mos successful civil
work
LonghenaSta. Maria Della Salute, Venicestructure in the middle of canal
St. Peters Basilica- most famous in Italy,
Renaissance period
Bramante- first architect, plan in form of
Greek cross plan
Givliano da Sangallo- continued, after 2
yrs died
Fra Giacondo- died
Raphael- changed plan into Latin cross

FRENCH RENAISSANCE
Chateau de Bury (typical French chateau)
Chateau de Blois (spiral shell staircase)- Leonardo
da Vinci
Principal Buildings:
Palaces
Palais de Louvre (historical artifacts)Pierre Lescot
Palais de Tuilleries- Philbert de Larme
(residence of French rulers till
1879)
Palais de Versailles (for Louis xiv)- Le
Vau
Churches
Church of the Sorbonne- Le Mercier
Dome of the Invalides (niche of
Napoleon Boniparte)
GERMAN RENAISSANCE- French style, use of bricks
Heidelber Castle
Salzberg Cathedral
SPANISH RENAISSANCE- plateresque style
- churrigueresque
style (Spanish
baroque)
Plateresque- fancy design by silver crafts
Churrigueresque- inspired by Jose de
Churrigueresque
- high baroque of Spanish
renaissance

Palace of Charles V. Granada- Pedro Machuca,

best example
Escorial (art works)- Julian de Bautista, Julian de
Herera
w/ monastery,
collage, church & place
Granada Cathedral- Diego de Silde
One of the grandest
cathedral in Spain
Tomb of Ferdinand
& Isabela & others
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Elizabethan Mansion
Features:
Towers
Gable roof
Parapets
Balustrade
Chimneystacks
Bay & oriel window
Topiary work- landscaping sculpture
Elements:
Great hall
Grand staircase
Long Gallery (upper floor)- most striking
feature
Solar (withdrawing room)- warmest room
Architects:
Inigo Jones- deciple of Italian
Renaissance
characterized by the
use of bricks
Banqueting House, White Hall
Queen,s House, Grenwich
Sir Christopher Wren- deciple of French
renaissance
St Pauls Cathedral- greatest
masterpiece, model English
53 London churches
Grenwich Observatory & hospital
Fountain court & garden faade of
Hampton Palace
TH

REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE- 19 CENTURY

ARCHITECTURE
Marked by Battle of Style- conflict between
GOTHIC & CLASSIC
Arts & Craft Movement- alliance of artists &
factories, paved way to
Art Nouveau- organic & dynamic forms
curving designs
whiplash line
Victorian Architecture- Britain revival architecture
BRITAIN
1830-1850 EARLY
VICTORIAN
Greek Revival &
Graeco Roman
Ex. Railway Buildings
Personalities
Awn Pugin
S. Joseph PaxtonCrystal Palace

CENTRAL EUROPE
1830-1848 JULY
MONARCHY
Neo Renaissance
Ex. Vignon, Madeleine Paris
Chalgrin- Arc de
Triomphe
Brandenburg Gate

S. W. ChambersSomerset House
S. John Soane- Bank
of England
1850-1875 HIGH
VICTORIAN
Gothic Revival
Renaissance Revival
Personalities
S.G. Scott- Liver Pool
Cathedral
S. Charles BarryWestminter Palace
1875-1901 LATE
VICTORIAN
Romanesque,
Byzantine
Baroque, Flemish,
Renaissance

1848- 1870 SECOND

EMPIRE
High Neo
Renaissance
Ex. Fernstel- Votive Church,
Vienna

1870-1914 THIRD
REPUBLIC
Neo- Baroque
Ex. Charles Garnier- Paris
Opera House

ENGLAND
Queen Anne Style- popularized by Norman Shaw
applied on domestic
houses
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
BRITAIN
Art Nouveau- Charles Rennie Mckintosh
Ritz Hotel- first building made of reinforced
concrete & glass after war
- Mewes & Davies
Schools- Ecole Des Beaux-Arts- Architectural
Design
Ecole de polytechnique- Engineering
Art Nouveau
France- Le Modern Style
Germany- Jugensdstil, Bandwurmstil, Tapeworm
Austria- Sezessione
Italy- Stile Liberty, Stile Inglese, English Style
Spain- Modernismo
Architects of Modern Period:
Britain: Wells Coates
A.D. Connel
C.A. Lucas
Edwin Maxwell Fry
B.R. Ward
F.R.S. Yorke
C. Europe:
B. Lubetsrin
W. Gropius
Serge Chermayeff
E. Mendelsohn
Marcel Breuer
German Exponents Of Arts & Crafts:
August Endel
Henri Vande Velde
Viennese Architects
Otto Wagner
J.M. Olbrich
Important architects of 1900-1916
Peter Behrens- Germany
Auguste Perret- France
Adolf Loos- Austria
Foremost architects of Modern Period
Erich Mendelson- Germany

Ragnar Ostberg- Sweden

Ivar Tengbon- Sweden
Sven Markelious- Sweden
Gunnar Asplono- Denmark
Prominent Art Nouveau Architects
Mckintosh- Scotland
Antonio Gaudi- Spain (undulating lines) Sagrada
Familia
Victor Horta- Belgium
19th century Precedents of Modern Architecture
Crystal palace- Joseph Paxton
Halles Centralles (market)- Baltard
Bibioteque Nationale (lib)- Henry Labrouste
Pioneers of Modern Architecture
Otto Wagner- Austria
Peter Behrens- Germany
August Perret- France
Hendrik Berlage- Holland
Louis Sullivan- U.S.
19th Century Inventions:
combination of glass & steel
folded slab- introduced by Eugene Freyssinet
flat slab- by Robert Millart
laminated timber (plywood)

Worlds Columbian Exposition,

Philadelphia- 1893
Predominant style:
Gothic Revival- initiated by
Henry Richardson later by
Louis Sullivan
End of
Gothic Revival Frank Loyd Wright
Beaux-Arts- more academic in
character
St. John the Divine Cathedral, NY- Le
Farge
Marshal Field Store, Chicago- Henry
Richardson
Skyscraper- dominant: innovations
metal frame construction
non- load bearing curtainwall
elevator
4. 1930- Modern Period in America
Walter Gropius
Erich Mendelsohn
Mies Vander Rohe
Eliel Saarinen
Bauhaus

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Georgian/ Colonial Architecture
White House, Washington- Mckim, Mead & White
Independence Hall, California- Andrew Hamilton
NATIONAL PHASE
1. Post Colonial Period- 1790-1815
Departure from English
architecture to French influence
Revival period in U.S.A.
Classic Revival example:
Capitol, Washington D.C.- Thornton,
Hallet & Latrobe
University of Virginia- Thornton, Hallet &
Latrobe
Montecillo Virginia- Thornton, Hallet &
Latrobe
Plan of Washington D.C.- Charles Pierre
L Enfant
Federal Hall, Washington D.C.- Charles
Pierre L Enfant
Washington Monument, Washington
D.C.- Robert Mills
Philadelphia Exchange- William
Stricklamp
Revival of Gothic example:
Trinity Church, New York- Richard Upjan
St. Patricks Cathedral- James Wrenwick
2. 1st Eclectic Period- 1815-1860
predominant style of Greek
architecture
balloon frame introduction in
building construction
use of cast iron as building
material
3. 2nd Eclectic Period- 1860-1930
most important period in
architecture in U.S.A.
Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia1876

MUSLIM ARCHITECTURE
Principal building: Masjid/ Mosque
3 types:
Fami Masjid/ Friday Mosque- biggest
Madrasa- colligiate mosque, learning
Tomb Mosque
Characteristics of Friday Mosque:
Minaret- tower
Maqsura- screen
Dikka- reading desk
Mihrab- niche
Mimbar- palpit
Liwanit- colonnade
Fawara- fountain
Sahn- open space
Characteristics of mosque:
Dome
Colonnade- trefoil, ogee, horseshoe,
lancet
Ornaments- Mnemonic inscription (text)
Superimposed
ornaments- in layers
Stalactite- found in
pendentives (muqarna)
3d
corbels
Examples of Muslim Architecture:
Arabian SaracenicGreat Mosque Mecca
Assyrian SaracenicDome of the Rock, Jerusalemholiest place
Spanish Saracenic
Great Mosque Cordovacapital of Islam religion in West
Giralda, Seville- most beautiful
towers

Alhambra Granada- part of

royal palace, most famous
Turkish Saracenic
Taj Mahal, Agra- most
important, made of marble
INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
Characterized by Buddhist, Jain, Hindu
BuddhistStambha/ Lath- monumental pillars
Stupa/ Tope- domical sacred mound
Chaitya- Indian Buddhist temple
Vihara- Indian Buddhist monastery
Hindu temple elements:
Mandapa- hall for religious dancing &
music
Garbhagriha- unlighted shrine
Vimana- sanctuary
Great Stupa Sanchi- characteristic of Indian
architecture
Golden Temple of Sikhs- holiest temple
CHINESE ARCHITECTURE
Roof characteristics
1. steep gable roof w/ spreading
eaves
2. extensive use of roof tilesyellow, green, blue- imperial
palace
red- mandarin
black or gray- citizens
3. scultural works found on roof
ridges- dragon, fish
Principal buildings:
Pai- Lou- Chinese gateway (3 openings)
Pagoda/ Tais- houses relic of Buddha
Temples- contains statue of Buddha
Elements:
Temple proper
Dagoba
Bell tower
Pagoda
Library
Monks dwelling
House- generally one storey
Emperor- 9 bays
Prince- 7 bays
Mandarin- 5 bays
Ordinary citizens- 3 bays

Incorporation of stupas in monastery

Chasitsu or tea house in Japanese
dwellings
Modular planning of house & palaces
thru use of tatami 3x5
CAMBODIAN ARCHITECTURE- Stone Carving
Angkor Thom- founder Jayavarman
- center of town Bayon (main
temple 54 towers)
Angor Wat- one of architectural wonders of world
- largest religious structure in the
world, behive shape towers

INDONESIAN ARCHITECTURE- Hindu influenced (stone

carving)
Borubodur- largest budhist temple
Stupa in Java
MIYANMAR ARCHITECTURE (BURMA)
Principal buildings:
Chedi- Burmese stupa
Shwedagon pagoda, pangun
Kya- ung- Burmese monastery
Thein- ordination hall for monks
Pitakat-taik- Buddhist library
NEPALIST ARCHITECTURE- Budhist
Stupa- 13 tiers, symbolizes heaven
Swayambhunath Stupa, Katmandu- square base
w/ eyes of Buddha
TIBETAN ARCHITECTURE
Chorten- stupa
Sakya Monastery- famous for collection
of Tibetan manuscript
Potala Palace, Lhasa- palace for
entertaining important people
THAI ARCHITECTURE
Wat- group of religious buildings
Bot- temple
Phra chedi- stupa w/ a round tower
Phra prang- stupa w/ elliptical tower
Pra sat- royal throne hall
Mondop- library
Sala- pavilion for resting
Kuti- monastery
Phra Pathom Chedi- most important architectural
landmark in Thailand

Great Wall of China- built by emperor- Si- HuangTi

JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE
The Gussho System- based on rigidity of the
triangle
Features:
Roof construction:
1. Kiruzuma/ Gabled Roof
2. Hogyo/ Pyramidal Roof
3. Shichu- Hip- Ridge Roof
4. Irimoya- Hip & Gabled
Roof
Incorporation of Buddhist altar in
Japanese mansion

FILIPINO ARCHITECTURE