Architecture Timeline

850 AD- 476 AD

Classical Architecture

500 AD-1200AD

Romanesque Architecture

1400AD-1600AD

Renaissance Architecture

3,500 BCE-900 AD

Egyptian Architecture

375 AD-500 AD

Early Christian

1100AD-1450AD

Gothic Architecture

1600AD-1830AD

Baroque Architecture

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11,600BCE-3,500 BCE

Prehistoric Architecture

1890AD - 1940AD

Art Nouveau

1600AD - 1780AD

American Colonial

1905AD - 1930AD

Neo-Gothic

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1650AD-1790AD

Rococco Architecture

Prehistoric Architecture

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Classical Column Styles

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Pantheon

EARLY CHRISTIAN

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Basilica Ulpia

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Basilica of St. Sernin

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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

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Adair Friary

Notre Dame

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

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BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

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Palace of Versailles

San Carlo Alle Quatro Fontane

ROCOCCO ARCHITECTURE

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Palace of Versailles

AMERICAN COLONIAL

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Example of Colonial Home

ART NOUVEAU

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NEO-GOTHIC

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St. Patrick's Cathedral

• Symmetrical front and a rectangular shape
• Two stories
• A lean-to addition with a saltbox roof (basically where the roof in the back of the house extends almost al the way down to the ground)

Flying Buttress

• Characterized by the elements that supported taller, more graceful architecture
• Pointed arches, flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting
• Gargoyles
• Began mainly in France
• Examples: Notre Dame, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Adare Friary

• Last phase of the Baroque period
• Graceful white buildings with sweeping curves
• Elegant decorative desings with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns
• Really concerned with interior design
• Centered in France
• Extensive details - some people would get their interior remodeled in this style to show wealth

• Irregular shapes and extravagant ornamentation
• Opulent paintings and bold contrasts
• Designed to surprise and awe the viewer
• Conveys a sense of drama, movement, and tension

• Found throughout Europe

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• Pyramids
• Wood was not available, so houses and other structures were built wiht blocks of sun-baked mud
• Temples and tombs were made with granite and limestone
• They were decorated with hieroglyphics, carvings, and brightly colored frescoes
• No mortar was used to connect bricks, so they were carefully cut to fit together

• First expressed in fabrics and graphic design, not architecture
• Asymmetrical shapes, arches, and decorative Japanese-like surfaces with curved, plant-like designs and mosaics

Stained Glass

• Prehistoric builders moved earth and stone into geometric forms, creating our earliest human-made formations
• Humans constructed mounds, stone circles, megaliths, and other structures
• Many examples of well-preserved prehistoric architecture are found in southern England
• Example: Stonehenge & Gobekli Tepe

Sistine Chapel

• Really strong quality - sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers, thick walls, rounded arches
• Symmetrical
• Was at its height between about 1075 and 1125
• Influences from gothic, Byzantine, and Islamic architecture

• Architects were inspired by the carefully proportioned buildings of ancient Greece and Rome
• Mathematically precise ratios of height and width with desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony
• Originated in Italy

• Originated in ancient Greece and Rome
• Characterized by symmetry, columns, rectangular windows, and marble
• Identifable features: symmetry, proportion, rational order
• Elaborate temples, columns, domes, arches, vaults

Gargoyle

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• Started in Rome & Constantinople
• Influenced by the rising spread of Christianity
• Served as a worship space
• 4 Requirements: A path for entry, an alter area for mass, a seperate space for the clergy & congregation, and a burial space
• Closely spaced columns

• Medieveal Gothic ideas being applied to modern buildings - both private homes and a newer kind of building called skyscrapers
• Victorian style inspired by Gothic cathedrals
• Began in the United Kingdom
• Strong vertical lines and a sense of great height, arched and pointed windows, gargoyles and other medieval carvings