Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic

The oldest known paintings.

Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic

The oldest known paintings.

Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic

Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people.

Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic

Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people.

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Terra Amata, (France), 400,000 B.C.E - paleolithic

Sig: Oldest evidence of architecture.

Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic

Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures.

Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic

Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures.

Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic

Sig. Built in stone furniture.

Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic

Sig. Built in stone furniture.

New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault.

New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault.

Stonehenge (England), 2750-1500 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Is a megalith that contains trilithons. (first lintel siting)

Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. First city ever known.

Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. First city ever known.

Catalhoyuk (Turkey) 6000 BCE, Neolithic.

Sig. Use cob and half-timbering to build homes. Worshipped bulls.

Citadel and royal palace of Sargon II, Korsabad, (Iraq), 740 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Palace constructed of different sized rooms. Also had robust exterior walls.

Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep

Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history.

Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep

Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history.

Pyramids of Giza Egypt, (Khufu, Khafra, and Mekaura), 2500 BCE, Egyptians

The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu’s) was the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower.

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, 1500 B.C.E Senmut

Sig. The structure had statue columns and the structure presents more of its self as you approach it.

Troy [Hisarlik] (Turkey), 3000-1300 BCE, (Troy VI, Homeric Troy) Hittites

Sig. Was a large city state that was built over and over again on top of itself.

Palace of Minos, Knossos (Crete), c. 3000-1300 BCE, Minoan

Sig. The people would perform bull-vaulting in court yards.

Palace of Nestor, Pylos (Greece) c. 1300 BCE Mycenaean

Sig. Had a megaron palace.

Treasury of Atreus (Tomb of Agamemnon), Mycenae (Greece), c. 1400 BCE Mycenaean

Sig. Was a tholos (beehive) tomb.

Second Temple of Hera, Samos (Greece) 538 BCE, Dorians (Greeks)

Sig. Is a hexastyle doric temple.

Temple of Artemis, Ephesos (Turkey), c 550 BCE, Ionians

Sig. Was a peripteral ionic temple

Bouleuterion, Miletus (Turkey), c. 170 BCE, Greeks

Sig. It was a city council chamber.

Stoa of Attalos II, Athens, (Greece) 150 BCE Greek

Sig. It has a mix of doric and ionic columns.

Propylaea, Akropolis, Athens, 425 BCE, Kallikrates

Sig. Slightly separated in the middle to create a gate.

Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, (Greece) 440 BCE, Iktinos and Kallikrates

Sig. Is slightly curved upward to be more appealing to the eye.