Chapter Thirteen

Architecture

 

THINGS TO KNOW:

Great Friday Mosque

Mali, 1907

Load-Bearing Construction

 

Greek Orders

Byodo-In Temple

Japan, 1053

Pont du Gard

France, 1st Century, A.D.

Roman arch

Sainte-Foy Cathedral

France, 1120

Romanesque

Reims Cathedral

France, 1290

Gothic

Reims Interior

Stained Glass

Buttress

Flying Butress

Pier

Pantheon

Rome, 125A.D.

Concrete with stone veneer

Pantheon Interior

Parthenon

Acropolis, Athens Greece

432 B.C., Doric

Parthenon

Nashville, Tennessee, 1900

 

Nashville Parthenon
Interior with Athena

Taj Mahal

India, 1653

Islamic

Eiffel Tower

Paris, France, 1889

Cast-Iron

Wainwright Building

St. Louis, Missouri, 1891

Louis Sullivan

 

Lever House

NYC, 1952

International Style

Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco, 1937

Suspension

Sydney Opera House

Australia, 1972

Reinforced Concrete

Geodesic Dome

Montreal, Canada, 1967

R. Buckminster Fuller

National Gallery of Art

West Bldg.

Washington, DC, 1941

Chrysler Bldg.

NYC, 1930

Art Deco

Fallingwater

Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936

Frank Lloyd Wright

Rural Studio Project

Alabama

Samuel Mockbee

Bryant House

Lucy House

 

Antioch Baptist Church

Samuel Mockbee

1944-2001