A Global History of Architecture by Ching, Francis D.K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Map Title Copyright Contents Preface 3500 BCE

Ritual Centers Beginnings of China’s Civilizations

Niuheliang Ritual Center

Mehrgarh and Early Indus Settlements The Village Networks of Mesopotamia and the Balkans

Catal Hüyük Tell es-Sawwan Eridu and Uruk

Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt European Developments

Newgrange Carnac

2500 BCE

The Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization

Mohenjo-Daro

Margiana Early Empires of Mesopotamia

Ziggurat at Ur

Egypt: The Old Kingdom

Pyramids at Giza Valley Temple of Khafre

Architecture and Food Stonehenge Megalithic Temples of Malta The First Civilizations of South America

Caral

1500 BCE

The Minoans and Knossos Egypt: The New Kingdom

Waset (Thebes) Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Temple of Luxor Abu Simbel Egyptian Columns Egyptian Design Methods

Hittite Empire

Hattusas

Mycenaean Civilization

Treasury of Atreus

Poverty Point Shang Dynasty, China Civilization of the High Andes

800 BCE

The Olmecs

San Lorenzo and La Venta

Chavín de Huántar The Iron Age The Etruscans

Etruscan Religion Etruscan Temples

Greece: The Geometric Period

Emergence of the Greek Temple Form Temple of Poseidon

Kingdom of Kush Saba/Sa’abia Temple of Solomon Zhou Dynasty, China

The Ritual Complex

The Aryan Invasion and Varanasi Neo-Assyrian Empire

Babylon

400 BCE

The Achaemenid Empire

Pasargadae and Persepolis

Greece and the Mediterranean

The Greek Temple Athens The Parthenon Erechtheum Ionic Order Telesterion at Eleusis Delphi Temple of Apollo at Delphi

The Hellenistic Age

Delos Priene Pergamon Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos Temple of Apollo at Didyma Ptolemies Temple of Horus

Mauryan Dynasty and Early Buddhism

Barabar Hills Caves

China: The Warring States Period

Xianyang Palace Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi

The Founding of Rome

Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste The Roman Urban Villa Republican Tombs

Bibracte Augustan Rome

Forum of Augustus Tholoi Tombs Vitruvius Corinthian Capitals

Post-Augustan Rome

Palace of Domitian The Colosseum The Imperial Forums

Rock-Cut Tombs

Petra

Northern Palace at Masada Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis Qin Dynasty, China

Tomb of the First Emperor Great Wall of China

Development of Mahayana Buddhism

Sanchi Complex Abhayagiri Vihara Junnar Caves

The Maya

Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlán Nakbe El Mirador

200 CE

Roman Empire

Ephesus Miletus The Roman Theater The Pantheon Hadrian’s Villa Roman Vertical Surface Roman Baths Diocletian’s Palace Baalbek

The Parthian Empire Aksum Amaravati Stupa Caitya Hall at Karli Anuradhapura Han Dynasty China

Mingtang-Biyong Ritual Complex

Teotihuacán

Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Moche and Nazca Civilizations

Nazca Lines

North Amazon Societies Ohio’s Hopewell Mounds

400 CE

Ajanta Caves Establishment of Chinese and Central Asian Buddhism

Mogao Caves Yungang Caves Kushans of Bamiyan

The Sassanian Empire

Zoroastrian Fire Temples

Hindu Renaissance Mahabodhi Temple Sigiriya The Pyu, Mon, and Funan Emergence of Christianity

Martyria St. Peter’s in Rome First Baptisteries

Post-Constantinian Age Tomb of Theodoric the Great Kofun Period: Japan Zapotecs of Oaxaca

Monte Albán

600 CE

Age of Justinian

Hagia Sophia Byzantine Capitals

Armenian Architecture

St. Hripsime Zvartnots Cathedral

Vishnu Deogarh and Elephanta The Five Rathas

Shore Temple at Mamallapuram

Southeast Asia

My Son

Sui and T’ang Dynasties

Daxing (Chang’an) Daming Palace Songyue Temple Ta

Nara Period: Japan

Ise Jingu Horyu-ji

800 CE

Rise of Islam

Umayyad Mosque Baghdad Great Mosque of Samarra Great Mosque of Córdoba Dome of the Rock

Mahaviharas at Nalanda Rajasimhesvara and Virupaksha Temples Kailasnath at Ellora Samye, Tibet Indonesia at a Crossroads

Borobudur

Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia

Hariharalaya Mahendraparvata (Mt. Meru) Siem Reap (Ganges River) Indratataka (Sea of Indra) Bakong

Korean Buddhism Foguang Monastery Europe and the Carolingians

Plan of St. Gall St. Riquier Palatine Chapel

Tikal Mayan City-States

Copán

Tiwanaku Quirigua Guayabo

1000 CE

Mayan Uxmal Cahokia Serpent Mound Pueblo Bonito Seljuk Turks

Sultan Han Great Mosque of Isfahan First Madrasas

Muqarnas The Fatimids Rise of the Rajput Kingdoms

Rani-ni-Vav at Patan Sun Temple at Modhera Chandellas Khandariya Mahadeva Temple Tantrism Vastu-Shastras Orissa and Lingaraja Temple Jains Jain Temples at Mt. Abu

Cholamandalam

Dakshinameru (Rajarajeshwara Temple)

Polonnaruwa Song Dynasty China

Sage Mother Hall The Iron Pagoda

Liao Dynasty

Mu-ta Dulesi Monastery

Pure Land Buddhism Byzantine Revival

Kievan Russia Armenia Sanahin Complex

Ottonian Germany

Speyer Cathedral

The Normans

Durham Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral Cefalù Cathedral

Pilgrimage Churches Tuscany

Cathedral of Pisa Baptistery of Parma

1200 CE

Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat)

Angkor Thom and Preah Khan

Kingdom of Pagan Sanju-sangen-do Itsukushima Shrine Southern Song Dynasty

Yingzhao Fashi

Mongol Empire

Yuan Dynasty China

Delhi

Tughlaqabad Quwwat-ul-Islam

Africa

Mamluk Sultanate Lalibela Great Zimbabwe Mosques of Mali

Fontenay Abbey Medieval Scandinavia Europe: The High Middle Ages

Cathedral Design Amiens and Bourges Cathedrals Notre-Dame of Reims Exeter Cathedral Italian Town Halls Siena Mendicant Orders

Nasrid Sultanate and the Alhambra Toltec Empire Chichén Itzá

1400 CE

The Americas

Hopis New England Societies Tenochtitlán Incas Machu Picchu

Republic of Venice Ottoman Empire

Beyazit Medical Complex Topkapi Palace

Italian Renaissance

Cathedral of Florence Florentine Loggias San Lorenzo Medici Palace Rucellai Palace Sant’Andrea at Mantua Villa Medici Tempietto of San Pietro

French Châteaux Mamluk Sultanate

Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Qaitbay

Timurid Dynasty Deccan Sultanates

Pandua Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad Friday Mosque of Gulbarga

Ming Dynasty China

Forbidden City Mt. Wudang Temple of Heaven Dabao-en Temple, or the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

Joseon Dynasty Muromachi Japan

Kinkakuji Ginkakuji

Ayutthaya

1600 CE

Architecture of the Eurasian Power Bloc Tokugawa Shogunate

Nikko Toshogu Nijo-jo Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Imperial Villa)

Ming Tombs Potala Palace Voyages of Zheng He Mughals

Humayun’s Tomb Fatehpur Sikri Buland Darwaza Diwan-i-Khas Rauza-I-Munavvara (Taj Mahal)

Vijaynagara Bijapur Isfahan Suleymaniye Complex Kremlin’s New Churches

Church of the Ascension

Dogon of Mali Palladio

Villa Rotonda

Baroque Italy

Campidoglio St. Peter’s Basilica Sant’Andrea al Quirinale Il Gesù

Spanish Invasion of America

Atrios

Colonial Forts Amsterdam

Amsterdam Town Hall

Place Royale Elizabethan England

Banqueting House

Church of Santo Domingo Ryoanji

1700 CE

Colonialism

Haciendas New European Colonial Urban Culture

The Louvre and the Hôtel Château de Versailles St. Petersburg Rationalization and the Age of Reason

Observatoire de Paris Hôtel des Invalides

Johann Balthasar Neumann and the New Neresheim China and the European Enlightenment

The Gongyuan and the Jinshi Stowe Gardens and The Temple of British Worthies Sans Souci

Qing Beijing

Beihai Yuanmingyuan

Joseon Dynasty of Korea Mallas of Nepal Kyoto’s Odoi and Shimabara Edo (Tokyo) Nayaks of Madurai Jaipur Nurosmaniye Mosque, Istanbul The Anglican Church

St. Mary Woolnoth

Whigs and the Palladian Revival

Touro Synagogue, Newport Shirley Plantation, Virginia

1800 CE

Tash-Khovli Jaipur and the End of the Mughal Empire Darbar Sahib Wat Pra Kaew Neoclassicim vs. Romanticism

Laugier, Rousseau, and the Noble Savage St. Geneviève Ledoux and Boullée Napoleonic Cemeteries Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Jeffersonian Neoclassicism Monticello

Washington, DC Nationalism

Altes Museum

Colonial Calcutta:The Esplanade

Writers’ Building St. John’s Church Government House

Greek Revival

Tennessee State Capitol Metcalfe Hall

Industrial Revolution

Albert Dock Panoptic Prisons Workhouses

Shakers August Welby Pugin and the English Parliament Building Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc Architectural Preservation Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève Kanamaru-za Qianlong’s Universal Vision

Chengde Qingyi Garden

Synagogues

1900 CE

Public Sector Architecture

London Law Courts

Railroad Stations The Athenaeum National Museums World’s Fairs Global Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts and Crafts in India: Indo-Saracenic Style Arts and Crafts in California

Central Park Paris and Haussmann The Passage École des Beaux-Arts Chettinad Mansions Colonial Modernism Henry Hobson Richardson The Global Bungalow Shingle Style Campus Architecture in the United States Art Nouveau’s Maison Tassel Rise of Professionalism International City Beautiful Plans

Walter Burley Griffin

The Garden City Movement International Beaux-Arts Skyscrapers

Wrigley Building

Casa Batlló Frank Lloyd Wright

Taliesin

African Land Grab Kyoto National Museum Myongdong Cathedral Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Building Concrete Adolf Loos The Factory Aesthetic Deutsche Werkbund German Concrete Expressionism New Delhi Mombasa Asplund and Lewerentz Frank Lloyd Wright and the Mayan Revival Style Dutch Kampung De Stijl Movement Friedrichstrasse Office Building Russian Constructivism

Tatlin’s Tower Soviet Pavilion

The Bauhaus Le Corbusier and Vers une Architecture

Villa Savoye

Lovell House

1950 CE

Modernism

Weissenhof Siedlung Usonian Houses Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne Pavilion Suisse Barcelona Pavilion Palace of the Soviets Competition Rockefeller Center Czechoslovakia Touba National Modernism, Ankara National Modernism, Tel Aviv Japanese Pavilion Villa Mairea Fallingwater Brazilian Modernism Fascist Modernism, Italy Säynätsalo Town Hall Illinois Institute of Technology Library Building Farnsworth House Eames House Yale University Art Gallery National Modernism, Brasília National Modernism, Chandigarh Chapel At Ronchamp Guggenheim Museum Ekistics Sydney Opera House Eero Saarinen Steel and Glass Skyscraper Latin-American Modernism National Modernism, Cuba Salk Institute National Modernism, Bangladesh Metabolism Brutalism Archigram Buckminster Fuller Counterculture Architecture National Modernism, Nigeria South Asian Modernism

Postmodernism Magney House

Globalization Today Glossary Bibliography Illustration Credits Index Eula

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