HISTORY OF

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Prehistoric to Romanesque
Architecture

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Once human beings

settle down to the business of
agriculture, instead of hunting
and gathering, permanent
settlements become a factor
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of life. The story of

architecture can begin.

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A HISTORY of
architecture is a record of
man’s efforts to build
beautifully. The erection of
structures devoid of
beauty is mere building,
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a trade and not an art.

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Course Content
• Introduction: Influences
• Prehistoric Architecture in Europe
• Egyptian Architecture
• Greek Architecture
• Roman Architecture
•
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Early Christian Architecture

• Byzantine Architecture
• Romanesque Architecture

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Grade Components
50% Major Exams
20 Report / Research
15% Quizzes/Research
15% Recitation/Homework
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100% No bargain grade

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Lesson Format
A. Introduction

B. Influences

C. Vocabulary
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D. Architectural Character

E. Architectural Examples

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The past is not

over....it has not
even passed.
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William Faulkner

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Architectural Influences
ö Historical -- people’s collective story
ö Social -- government, social
conditions

HISTORICAL
ö Religion -- people’s
ö Climatic
beliefs, emotional
-- climate/weather
SOCIAL HISTORICAL
temperament conditions.
GEOGRAHICAL

ö Geographical -- location of a particular country,

RELIGION
CLIMATIC

CLIMATIC
describing whether it is near the sea, inland, on the
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mountains, desert, etc

GEOLOGICAL

ö Geological -- character and composition of the earth, and

materials found in the area

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Architectural Influences
ö Architecture is a lithic history of social
conditions, progress, and religion, and
of events which are landmarks in the
history of mankind because
architecture is intimately connected
with national life.
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Architectural Influences
ö The historian of architecture must trace the
origin, growth, and decline of the
architectural styles which have prevailed in
different lands and ages, and to show how
they have reflected the great movements of
civilization.
ö It is also his function to explain the principles
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of the styles, their characteristic forms and

decoration, and to describe the great
masterpieces of each style and period.

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Influences to Architecture
ö STYLE is a quality. Style is character expressive of
definite conceptions, as of grandeur, gaiety, or
solemnity.
ö Historic styles are phases of development. An historic
style is the particular phase, the characteristic manner
of design, which prevails at a given time and place. It is
not the result of mere accident or caprice, but of
intellectual, moral, social, religious, and even political
conditions.
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ö Thus the history of architecture appears as a connected

chain of causes and effects succeeding each other
without break, each style growing out of that which
preceded it. To study architectural styles is therefore to
study a branch of the history of civilization.

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