HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2 T I M E L I N E

1.Medieval Architecture
2.Romanesque Architecture
3.Gothic Architecture
4.Renaissance Architecture
5.Mesoamerican Architecture
6.Revivalism and Industrial Revolution (19th)
7.20thCentury Architecture
8.Modern and International Style
9.Contemporary Architecture

MEDIEVAL/ MEDIAEVAL
CASTLES
T H E M I D DL E A G E
-notable building in Medieval Architecture
-Medi–middle;
-Built on mounds above rivers
Ev–age; also called as ENGLISH MEDIEVAL
-Thick walls and small windows to resist
-Between Roman Empire and the
attacks
Renaissance
-many were adapted to make convenient
- the “Fall” of Romans and “Re- birth” of
residences in later periods.
culture
-King and Queen’s Residence
-The Dark Age/ Migration Age – no emperor
-Fortress at times of war

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
3 TYPES OF CASTLES:
-Medieval architecture simply refers to
1.Motteand Bailey Castle
architectural styles in medieval Europe
2.Stone Keep Castle
during the middle ages.
3.Concentric Castle
-started from Romanesque to Gothic
Architecture.

VIKINGS
Sea Warriors

CRUCK FRAMED HOUSE

Hook –Bent
No chimneys in medieval houses, just a hole
in the roof
•Roof –made of Thatched with tile or slates
•Walls –made of wattle and daub
MOTTE & BAILEY
Earliest form of Castle

BALISTRARIA
PARTS OF CATLES Cross shaped opening
1.Donjon/ Keep/ Tower
2.Peel BARTIZAN
3.Battlement an overhanging corner
4.Merlon turret at the top of a
5.Crenel castle or church tower
6.Allure
7.Balistraria
8.Bartisan MACHICOLATION
9.Machicolation an opening between the supporting corbels
10.Bastea of a projecting parapet or the vault of a
11.Bajnitsa gate, through which stones or burning
objects could be dropped on attackers.
TOWER
At first towers were built as self-suficient
fortification units. The towers had everything
to keep enemy away for long weeks of the
siege -water, food, gun powder and other
artillery supplies.

DONJON/KEEP/ TOWER
A stronghold of Medieval Castle; usually in
the form of a massive tower.
BASTEA
PEEL artificial soil elevation or stone wall which is
In Northern England and Scotland in the semi-round or horse shoe -shaped in plan.
middle ages, it is a small emergency defense Allows for good shooting access of troops.
structure, generally a low fortified tower
BAJNITSA
BATTLEMENT Loophole/ Small Window/ Shooting Window
in defensive architecture, such as that of city
walls or castles, comprises a parapet.
 = 2 gateways guarded by machicolations,
drawbridge and porticullis.

2. WINDSOR CASTLE, England

-A royal
residence
and It is in
essence a
Georgian and
PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT Victorian
design based
1.Anglo-Saxon Period –characterized by the on a medieval structure, with Gothic features
use of the timberfor domestic building reinvented in a modern
2.Norman or Transition Period –characterized style.
by bold and massive architecture with 4. TOWER OF LONDON
distinct piers and flat buttresses
3.Early English or Lancet Period –less massive,
simple ornamentwith tall ad narrow lancet
openings
4.Decorated or Geometrical and Curvilinear
Period –more ornate and elaborated
decoration 5. KRAK DES CHAVALIERS, SYRIA
5.Perpendicular Period –Rectilinear/ late
pointed/ Lancastrian Period 6.Coca, Segovia
6.Tudor Period –used in domestic building,
similar in perpendicular style 7. BODIAM CASTLE England
MoatedCastle in
EXAMPLE OF CASTLES East Sussex,
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE England. Built in
1.Carcassone 1385 by Edward
2.Windsor Castles Dalyngriggeto
3.Warwick Castle defend the area
4.Tower of London –White Tower against French invasion during the Hundred
5.Krakdes Chavaliers Years War.
6.Coca, Segovia 8. EDINBURGH CASTLE SCOTLAND
7.BodiamCastle Itis a historic
8.Edinburgh Castle fortress which
dominates the
1. CARCASSONE France skyline of the city
-Built in 13thCentury AD of Edinburgh,
-Double wall, inner one made in 600 AD Scotland, from its position on the Castle
-50 towers and moat Rock.
-END OF MEDIEVAL ARCH