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ARCH 305

Architecture of Western World

2 Credits, 2 Hrs/Wk
Lecture 01

Flash Back
PRE-HISTORIC
PRE-HISTORIC
ANCIENT PERIOD

Mesopotamian Empire
IA BA under King Sargon of Agade
TOL CT
ANA RIA
ASHUR
DAMASCUS
PERSIA Mesopotamian Empire
AGADE
ME
SO
BABYLON
UR
under King Hammurabi
MEMPHIS PO PERSEPOLIS
TAM
EGYPT IA
Assyrian Empire
THEBES
under King Ashurbanipal

Persian Empire
under King Darius I
ANCIENT PERIOD
CLASSICAL PERIOD
Greek Empire
under Alexander the Great of Macedonia

EC E
GRE

ASIA MINOR AF
GH
A NIS
TAN
CRETE
SYRIA
PERSIA

MEMPHIS
INDIA
EGYPT

THEBES
CLASSICAL PERIOD
Greek Empire
under Alexander the Great of Macedonia

EC E
GRE

ASIA MINOR AF
GH
A NIS
TAN
CRETE
SYRIA
PERSIA

MEMPHIS
INDIA
EGYPT

THEBES
CLASSICAL PERIOD
Roman Empire in 114 AD
under Emperor Trajan

BRITAIN

LONDON
GERMANY

FRANCE
ITALY
NIMES ROME
GREECE
SPAIN POMPEII
SEGOVIA BYZANTIUM
(CONSTANTINOPLE)
ATHENS
CARTHAGE
ANTIOCH PERSIA
AFRICA

EGYPT
ARCHITECTURE OF
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
EARLY CHRISTIAN

Christianized
by 600 AD

BRITAIN

LONDON

FRANCE
ITALY
MARSEILLE ROME
GREECE
SPAIN NAPLES
CONSTANTINOPLE

SEVILLE
ATHENS ANTIOCH
CARTHAGE SYRIA
JERUSALEM DAMASCUS PERSIA
NORTH AFRICA BETHLEHEM JUDEA
ALEXANDRIA

EGYPT
BYZANTINE
Byzantine Empire in 565 AD
under Emperor Justinian

BULGARIA

ROME
GREECE
SPAIN
CORDOBA CONSTANTINOPLE

ASIA MINOR
ATHENS
CARTHAGE ANTIOCH
JERUSALEM SYRIA
DAMASCUS
AFRICA
ALEXANDRIA

EGYPT
GOTHIC
NORWAY
SCOTLAND
SWEDEN
DENMARK ESTONIA
RUSSIA
ENGLAND
IRELAND LIVONIA
POLAND
HOLY ROMAN
EMPIRE LITHUANIA
FRANCE
HUNGARY

CASTILE PAPAL
STATES OTTOMAN EMPIRE

AFRICA
RENAISSANCE
NORWAY

SWEDEN

GREAT RUSSIA
BRITAIN DENMARK
DUTCH
REP. POLAND
HOLY ROMAN
EMPIRE LITHUANIA
FRANCE SWISS
CONF.
OTTOMAN
SAVOY EMPIRE

SPAIN PAPAL
PORTUGAL STATES

AFRICA
REVIVAL PERIOD
ARCHITECTURE OF
WESTERN WORLD
MODERNISM
CONTEMPORARY
POST MODERNISM
THE HISTORICAL
TIMELINE OF
ARCHITECTURE
Egyptian Byzantine

Pre-Historic Greek Roman Early Christian Romanesque Gothic Renaissance 18th-19th C: 20th C:
Revival Modern

Mesopotamian Buddhist Hindu Islamic

Ancient Indian Chinese & Japanese


ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORY

• To try not to memorize… but to understand

• History is not a list of facts… it is a story that can be


retold over and over

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