Unit 1: Prehistoric Architecture; Introduction to Geometry
    Stonehenge: Scotland, 2950-1600 B.C.E.

Unit 2: Ancient Architecture; Introduction to Symmetry, Proportion
    Great Pyramid: Giza (Egypt), c. 2500 B.C.E.
    Temple of Ammon: Karnak (Egypt), c. 1300 B.C.E.
    Ishtar Gate: Babylon, 604-562 B.C.E

Unit 3: Ancient Greece
    Buildings of the Acropolis (Parthenon, Propylaia, Nike Temple, Erechtheion ): Athens,
    5th century B.C.E.
    Theater at Epidaurus: Epidaurus, c. 350 B.C.E.

Unit 4: Ancient Rome
    Maison Cairée: Nîmes (France), 20 B.C.E.
    Colosseum: Rome, 70-80 C.E.
    Hadrian's Villa: Tivoli, 118-134 C.E.
    Pantheon: Rome, c. 118-128 C.E.
    Triumphal Arch (Septimius Severus):  Rome, 205 C.E.
    Baths of Caracalla: Rome, 211-217 C.E.
    Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine: Rome, 307-312 C.E.

Unit 5: Early Christian, Byzantine
    Hagia Sophia: Constantinople, 532-537 C.E.
    S. Vitale: Ravenna, c. 540-548 C.E.
    S. Marco: Venice, 1063-1094 C.E.

Unit 6: Islam and the West
    Dome of the Rock: Jerusalem, 688– C.E.
    Great Mosque: Damascus (Syria), c. 706-715 C.E.
    Great Mosque: Cordoba (Spain), 785– C.E.
    Alhambra: Granada (Spain), 13th-14th century C.E.
    Mosque/Madrasa of Sultan Hasan al-Nasir: Cairo (Egypt), c. 1356 C.E.
    Taj Mahal: Agra (India), 1630-1653 C.E.

Unit 7: Early Medieval and Romanesque
    Palatine Chapel: Aachen (Germany), c. 796-805
    Florence Baptistery: Florence, c. 1060
    Pisa Cathedral and Complex: Pisa, b. 1063
    St.-Sernin: Toulouse (France), b. 1077
    Durham Cathedral: Durham (England), b. 1093

Unit 8:  Gothic

    French Gothic
    St.-Denis: Paris, b. 1140
    Notre Dame a.k.a Paris Cathedral: Paris, b. 1163
    Chartes Cathedral: Chartes, b. 1194
    Amiens Cathedral:  Amiens, b. 1220
    Ste-Chapelle: Paris, b. 1241

    English Gothic
    Salisbury Cathedral: Salisbury, 1220-1260
    Wells Cathedral: Wells, 12th-14th c.
    King's College Chapel: Cambridge, 1446-1515
 

Unit 9:  Renaissance and Baroque

    Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
    Duomo of Florence: Florence
    Ospedale degli Innocenti: Florence
    Pazzi Chapel, Sta. Croce: Florence

    Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
    Palazzo Rucellai: Florence
    Sta. Maria Novella: Florence
    S. Andrea: Mantua

    Donato Bramante (1444-1514)
    Santa Maria presso San Satiro: Milan
    Tempietto: Rome
    Cortile del Belvedere: Rome
    Basilica di San Pietro: Rome
    Palazzo Caprini (House of Raphael): Rome

    Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
    Laurentian Library, S. Lorenzo: Florence
    Piazza del Campidoglio: Rome
    Basilica di San Pietro: Rome
    Palazzo Farnese: Rome (Begun by Sangallo the Younger)

    Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1475-1564)
    Il Gesu: Rome

    Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
    The Basilica Loggia: Vicenza
    Palazzo Chiericati: Vicenza
    Villa Malcontenta (Villa Foscari): Gambarare di Mira
    Villa Rotonda (Villa Almerico-Capra): Vicenza
    San Giorgio Maggiore: Venice
    Il Redentore: Venice

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
    Piazza San Pietro: Rome
    San Andrea al Quirinale: Rome

    Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
    San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane: Rome
    Sant Ivo della Sapienza: Rome
 
 

This page was created by Karlena Sakas and Steve Wassell (mostly the former).
Last Updated on November 20, 2001.