First Known City

Turkey

12 layers of habitation

Trader city

Single-story homes- No Windows

Khorsabad, Iraq

Mud brick construction

Sargon II

Built on both sides of the Euphrates

Lion symbolism

Battered Walls

Plant Based Uprights

Indus Valley Civilization

Great Baths

Recatalinar plan

First Sewer System

Divided into 3 areas

Earth & Straw walls

Orthagonal Plan

Designed by Hippodamos

Civic Structures united areas

Priene

Hellenistic City Planning

N-S streets ramped and stepped

Chruch of the Holy Cross

Built on island in lake

Dome represents heaven

Greek cross template

Cathedral of St. Basil

Designed by: Barna Postnik

Patron: Ivan IV

Shatar - tent like structure

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Muqarnas Dome, Palace of othe Lions, Alhambra, Late 14th Century.

Horseshoe

Ogival 

St. Denis

First Gothic structure

burial ground

point based support system

ribbed groin vaults

Tracery 

Flying butresses

Ribbed Vault

Pointed arch

Notre-Dame, Reims France

Towers built 200 years after structure

Central gable pushes beyond window

attempt to make stone transparent 

Notre Dame de Chartes

Contained virgin mary tunic

Hedingham Castle, Essex

Keep

No round towers

Durham Cathedral and Castle Complex

Castle + Monastary +Cathedral

1075-1100's

On a peninsula

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, 

Pitou France

Painted Ceilings

More windows than other chruches

Ribbed barrel vaulting

San Gimiagno

Towers 12-13th centuries

City known for internal conflicts

Italy

Leubeck Germany

Holsten Gate

Caenarvon Castle. 

One in a string of 14 castles.

Patron, King Edward 1

James of St George - Architect

Vertical Banding

Krak Des Chvaliers

Syria

12th Century

Built on top of an older castle

Rounded Towers

A structure, such as a section of vaulting or corbeling, set diagonally across the interior angle between two walls to provide a transition from a square to a polygonal or more nearly circular base on which to construct a dome.

Church of the Monastery of Christ

Istanbul, Turkey

Less interior decoration

Contains Aps conch fresco

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

691

Byzantine Tradition

Built on temple mount

Two Ambulitories

Exterior use of color new

Alhambra Palace

Granada, Spain

Last mosque that was built

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Great Mosque, Kairawan

Hypostile

Clearstory Lighting

Recycled roman columns

Great Mosque at Cordoba

Large, Hypostyle Hall

Two Tier arcade

Selimiye Cami Mosque at Edirne

Looks like Hagia Sophia

Central Plan

8 Squinches support dome

Alternating red and white stripes stolen from byzantine

Great Stupa at Sanchi

Founded by ashoka

most important building from in BD arch

Faced with stone and plaster

no interior space, solid

Toranas - 4 doorways 

Caves at Karla

Both residential and sacred

Sacred spaces -chaytia

Barrel vault carved ceiling

123' long

Temple of Vishnu, Deogarh (India)

Northern Style Hindu Temple

Post and Lintel

Kandariya Mahadeva Temple. Khajuraho (India)

1000

Northern Style 

Mature Form

Rajarajeshvara Temple, Thanjavur 

Southern Style

Strong Logit. Axis

Built to commemorate a battle

Nanchan Temple

Tang Dynasty

Bracket system - roof off building

Bay system

Great Wild Goose Pagoda

Built of stone

Tang Dynasty

645 CE

Chang’an, Tang Capital City

Present Day Xian

Population :!M residents

Orthagonal and axial

Ward System

Horyu-Ji Monastary

Oldest Wood temple in the world

buddhist temple

Todai-Ji- Temple Complex

Nara

Largest wooden structure in the world

Tikal

Maya City

Not Axial

series of citys with causeways

Temple 1 - The Great Jaguar

Tikal

9 Steps or levels

Staive Church

Wooden structure

Trabiated roofing

Fusion of viking and christian culture

Place of Charlamagne

Architect: Otto of Metz

Roman architecture

Chapel: Octagonal Plan

Abby Chuch of Saint Riquier, Centula, France

Patron: Charlamagne

Based on Roman Basillica

Coister

St. Peters plan

St. Michaels

Hildersheim Germany

Main Isle with side isles

Banding is byzantine

Imperial Cathedra

Speyer Germany

Multi-story westwork