History Of Architecture Buildings 1

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Terra Amata (France)

c. 400,000 BCE

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Mammoth Bone Hut (Mezhirich, Russia)

c. 10,000 BCE

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Lescaux Cave (France)

c. 10,000 BCE

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Lepenski Vir (Serbia)

c. 6300-4800 BCE

First example of permanent

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Longhouse (Netherlands)

c. 5000-4000 BCE

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Skara Brae (Scotland)

c. 2000 BCE

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New Grange (Ireland)

c. 3000 BCE

Passage grave

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Ggantija (Malta)

c. 2000 BCE

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Stonehenge (England)

c. 2750-1500 BCE

Beginning of urban construction

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Göbekli Tepe (Turkey)

c. 10,000 BCE

Oldest temple in the world

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Jericho (Israel/Palestine)

c. 7500 BCE

Dwellings had plaster floors and mud brick walls

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Çatalhöyük (Turkey)

c. 6000 BCE

Clustered houses built together in one unit

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Khirokitia (Cyprus)

c. 5500 BCE

Development of First street

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Oval Temple (Iraq)

c. 2650-2350 BCE

Walls allow transition from street to sacred space (controlled experience)

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Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (Iraq)

c. 2113-2096 BCE

Dedicated to Moon God/ large temples and articulated

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Citadel and Royal Palace of Sargon II (Iraq)

c. 742-706 BCE

Placed Palace in center for protection/palace is larger than ziggurat

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Worker’s Town at the pyramid site of King Sesostris II, Lower Egypt

c. 1800 BCE

Rational buildings

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Mortuary complex of Zoser (Saqqara)

c. 2680 BCE

Architect: Imhotep

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Stepped Pyramid of Sneferu (Meidum)

c. 2680-2570 BCE

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Bent Pyramid of Sneferu (Dahshur)

c. 2690-2565

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Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep (Deir el-Bahri)

c. 2050 BCE

Not a pyramid, shows importance of priest

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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir el-Bahri)

c. 1500 BCE

Architect: Senmut

Inspires a feeling of procession

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Valley of the Kings

Valley surrounded by mountains and all the tombs were sealed up

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Temple of Amon (Karnak)

c. 1525-1350 BCE

Built along two axis (east to west and north to south)-different rulers added new parts to temple to leave legacy

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Troy (Turkey)

c. 3000-1300 BCE

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Troy II (Turkey)

c. 2500-2200 BCE

Walled city partially destroyed by earthquake

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Palace of Nestor (Greece)

c. 1300 BCE

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Tiryns (Greece)

c. 1,600-1,100 BCE

Most important center due to its military fortress

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Treasury of Atreus (Greece)

c. 1400 BCE

Meant to be a tomb

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Lion Gate (Greece)

c. 1250 BCE

Structurally there to help relieve the weight of the wall

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Second Temple of Hera, Samos (Greece)

c. 7th century BCE

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Temple of Artemis, Corfu (Greece)

c. 600-580 BCE

First true doric temple

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First Temple of Hera, Paestum (Italy)

c. 550 BCE

Enneastyle, pronounced neck of column. Expression more on horizontal look

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Second Temple of Hera, Paestum (Italy)

c. 450 BCE

Porch is narrower, Hexastyle peripheral use of optical refinement

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Temple of Artemis, Ephesus (Turkey)

c. 560-550 BCE

Largest structure in the world when built. Ionic order of column

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Temple of Apollo Delphi (Greece)

c. 3rd-4th century B.C.E

"Center of the world"

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Persepolis (Iran)- Palace of Darius, Apadana, and Hypostyle Hall of Xerxes

518-460 BCE

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Temple of Athena Nike, Akropolis (Athens)

427-424 BCE

Architect: Kallikrates

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Propylaia, Akropolis (Athens)

437-432 BCE

Architect: Mnesikles

Ceremonial Gateway to the Acropolis

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Parthenon, Akropolis (Athens)

447-432 BCE

Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates

Sculptor of Athena: Phidias

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Erechtheion, Akropolis (Athens)

421-405 BCE

Architect: Mnesikles

Building built on the original site of the Temple of Athena. Built around an olive tree

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Temple of Apollo Epicurius, Bassae (Greece)

c. 450 BCE

Architect: Iktinos?

Hexastyle. Made of limestone. Ionic columns are engaged

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Temple of Apollo, Didyma (Turkey)

c. 300-200 B.C.E.

Built from a natural spring. Peristyle: dipteral

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Monument of Lysicrates (Athens)

335 B.C.E.

To show that Lysicrates won a competition. Corinthian columns supporting inside of a structure

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Theater, Altar of Pergamon (Turkey)

281-133 BCE

Road acts as a spine of the complex