A collection of electronic books and full text journal articles to aid you in your study. The materials are arranged roughly in the order the topic was covered in class.

You will need your library card to access these materials off campus.

Introduction

"Whether we are aware of it or not, architecture is part of everybody's personal history."

• The Ancient Civilizations Reference Library

• Stargazing in Ancient Egypt: The Sky Inspired Egyptians in Science, Art, and Architecture. Astronomy (June 2006)

Asian Sub-continent; China and Japan

"The architecture of the Far East shows extreme individuality, compelling and memorable..."

• The Resurgence of Vastu Shastra - India's Traditional Science of Architecture. World and I (Feb 2002)
• Luxury mirage: a new Louis Vuitton store in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills is a homage to sensuous material and optical effects. The Artchitectural Review (Nov 2004)

Meso-America and Ancient Greece

"The Spaniards were very impressed by Tenochtitlan..."

• Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students

• Unlocking mysteries of the Parthenon Smithsonian (Feb 2008)
• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, heroes, and athletes Hesperia (Spring 2005

Ancient Rome; Early Christian and Byzantine

"Under the Roman Empire, architecture, buoyed along by new techniques, achieved a prowess that, in some areas, European architecture was not again to reach until the seventeenth, eighteenth or even nineteenth century."

• Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students
• Encyclopedia of Religion edited by Lindsay Jones
• The Middle Ages Reference Library

• A Roman Circus in Corinth Hesperia (Fall 2005)
• Byzantine church gives up the secret of its longevity (Earthquake Proofing) New Scientist (November 2002)

Romanesque; Islam

"One of the extraordinary things about the Romanesque is that both secular and religious buildings seem to have gained dignity from their ambivalent inspiration."

• The Middle Ages Reference Library
• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World edited by Richard C. Martin

• Habakkuk in the Lions' Den Queen's Quarterly (Summer 2002)
• Analysing the spread of Islam in Western Kazakhstan through architectural monuments Anthropology of the Middle East (Spring 2008)

Medieval and Gothic; Renaissance in Italy; Spread of the Renaissance

"Occasionally in the story of architecture there occurs a particular person, place or building that we can point to as a milestone, saying here started such a style."

• The Middle Ages Reference Library

• Inigo Jones (Encyclopedia of World Biography)

Baroque and Rococo; Romantic Classicism; The Americas

"Beginning where Michelangelo left off, a new generation of Roman architects abandoned the antique and threw themselves into an art that overspilled all established boundaries and conventions"

• An Extraordinary Baroque Fusion of Architecture, Sculpture and Abstracted Nature, the Fontana Di Trevi still brings aquatic splendour and drama to the middle of Rome The Architectural Review (Jan 2003)
• The Triumph of the Baroque.(exhibition The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750) Architecture (May 2000)
• An Age of Exuberance, Drama and Disenchantment (the Baroque) UNESCO Courier (Sept 1987)

• The Bungalow Boom Style 1900 (Wntr-Spring 2003)

Triumph of the Iron Masters; A New Vision

"It was an age of uncertainty."

• Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
• edited by John Merriman

• Everyday Life in Motion: The Art of Walking in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris The Art Bulletin (Dec 2005)
• Frank Lloyd Wright and the Inspiration of Japan East-West Connections (Annual 2004)

International Style; End of the Century

"The need for order was in a sense true of the whole of the period."

• Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
• edited by John Merriman

• Le Corbusier the Life of Forms: 'the time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.' The Architectural Review (October 2008)

All quotations are taken from Patrick Nuttgens' book The Story of Architecture