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Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt

c.240-60BC

Four vertical slots once held obelisks

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Great Temple of Rameses II,

Abu Simbel, Egypt,

c.1285-1255BC

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Step Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser)

Saqqara, Egypt

c.2630BC

Imhotep

First monumental stone construction in Egypt.

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Temple of Hephaestus ('Theseion')

Athens

449BC

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Parthenon

Athens

447-431

Iktinos and Kallikrates

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Erechtheion

Athens

421-405BC

Mnesicles

Caryatids

 

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Temple of Fortuna Virilis

Rome

1st Cent. BC

Oriented to an axis in the manner of the Etruscans

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Maison Carree

Nimes

1st Cent. AD

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Pantheon

Rome

118-28AD

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Pont du Gard,

Nimes

c.50AD

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St Mark's

Venice

begun c.1063

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Hagia Sophia

Constantinople (Istanbul)

532-537

Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles

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San Vitale, 

Ravenna

started c.540

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Palatine Chapel (Minster)

Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)

begun 792

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Durham Cathedral

(founded 1093)

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Wells Cathedral - Nave

Begun c.1190

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West front of St Denis

Paris

1137-1140

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Interior of upper Chapel

Sainte-Chapelle,

Royal Palace,

Paris

1423-8

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Glasgow Cathedral

c.1225-1300

Early English

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Roslin Chapel (Collegiate)

Midlothian

founded 1446

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Lincoln Cathedral

West Front

1240

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Florence Cathedral Dome

1420-1436

Filippo Brunelleschi

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Pazzi Chapel

Florence

1429

Filippo Brunelleschi

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Foundling Hospital

Florence

1419

Filippo Brunelleschi

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Palazzo Rucellai

Florence

1446-1451

Leon Battista Alberti

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Santa Maria Novella

Florence

1456-1470

Leon Battista Alberti

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San Andrea

Mantua

1472-1476

Leon Battista Alberti

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New Sacristy

San Lorenzo, Florence

1520-37

Michelangelo

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Tempietto

San Pietro in Montorio, Rome

1502-10

Bramante

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Laurentian Library

Vestibule Staircase

San Lorenzo, Florence

1525

Michelangelo

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Palazzo Chiericati

Vicenza

1550

Andrea Palladio

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San Giorgio Maggiore

Venice

1565

Andrea Palladio

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Villa Capra (Rotonda)

Vicenza

1550-51

Andrea Palladio

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Longleat House,

Wiltshire

1572 onwards (incorporating work from 1554)

Robert Smythson

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Hardwick Hall

Derbyshire

1590-97

Robert Smythson

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Wollaton Hall

Nottinghamshire

1580-88

Robert Smythson

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Covent Garden

London

begun 1630

Inigo Jones

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James VI Chapel Royal

Stirling Castle

1593-1595

William Schaw

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George Heriot Hospital

Edinburgh

begun 1628

William Wallace

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Queen's House

Greenwich

1616-35

Inigo Jones

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Chateau de Chambord

Main Staircase

1519

Domenico da Cortona

 

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Chateau of Anet

Gatehouse

Loire Valley, France

1552-1559

Philibert de l'Orme

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SS. Martina e Luca

Rome

1629-1664

Pietro da Cortona

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S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome

1638-1641

Francesco Borromini

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Palais de Parlement

Rennes

1618

Salomon de Brosse

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Ste-Marie de la Visitation

Paris

1632-43

François Mansart

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Church of Val de Grace

Paris

1645-67

François Mansart & Phillippe Lemercier

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Chateau of Vaux-le-Victome

Melun

France

1657-61

Louis le Vaux

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East Facade of Louvre

Paris

1664-67

Claude Perrault

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Garden Plan

Versailles

1746

Original designed by Andre le Notre

1661-1700

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St Paul's Cathedral

London

1675-1710

Christopher Wren

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Greenwich Hospital

London

begun 1694

Christopher Wren

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Seaton Delaval

Hall

Northumberland

1718-1728

John Vanbrugh

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Blenheim Palace

Oxfordshire

1705-1726

John Vanbrugh

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Christchurch

Spitalfields, London

1715

Nicholas Hawksmoor

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Shinto Shrine

Main Sanctuary (Shoden)

Ise

fist constructed 685 AD, present building 1995

 

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The Major Hall

Nanchan Temple

Shanxi Province

China

782 AD

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Fongong Pagoda

Shanxi Province

China 1065

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Design for Wanstead House

2nd Version

1714-20

Colen Campbell

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Mereworth

Kent

1722-25

Colen Campbell

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Chiswick House

1723-29

Lord Burlington

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The Circus

Bath

1754

John Wood the Elder

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Gladstone's Land

Lawnmarket

Edinburgh

1617-1620

Term
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Glamis Castle

Angus

remodelled 1670s-80s

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Kinross House

1679-90

Sir William Bruce

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Holyrood Palace

Edinburgh

1671-76

Sir William Bruce

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Hopetoun House

West Lothian

1721-50

William Adam

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Pyramid of thee Sun

Teotihuacan (Mexico)

100AD

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The 'Castillo' Step Pyramid

Chichenitza, Mexico

900-1200AD

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Badshahi Mosque

Lahore

Pakistan

1673-74

Term
[image]
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The Taj Mahal

Agra, India

1631-54

built by Mughal emperor ShahJahan

Term
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Great shikhara

Brihadisvara Temple

Tanjore

11th Century

200 feet high

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Great Stupa (Mahastupa)

Sanchi

c.250BC-250AD

circular in plan with vertical element

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Great Mosque

Cordoba Spain

Prayer Hall

started c.785AD

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Friday Mosque

Isfahan

Iran

late11th-early12th century

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Selimiye Mosque

Edirne, Turkey

1568-1574

Mimar Sinan

Term
[image]
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Kenwood House,

London

1764-79

Robert Adam

 

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Somerset House

London

1776-96

William Chambers

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Definition

Somerset House

view of south range (Navy Office)

1775-1801

Sir William Chambers

Term
[image]
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Syon House

Entrance Hall

Middlesex

1762-69 (and 1773)

Robert Adam

 

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Culzean Castle

Ayrshire

1777-92

Robert Adam

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Plan of Edinburgh New Town

1767

James Craig

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Fort George

Invernesshire

1746-1766

William Skinner (with William Adam)

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Ste Genvieve (Pantheon)

Paris

1757-90

J G Soufflot

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Tomb of Newton

1784

E L Boulee

Term
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Barriere de la Villette

Paris

1784-87

C N Ledoux

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Salt Works at Chaux

Director's House

Arc et Senans

1775-79

C N Ledoux

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Edinburgh Bridewell

1790

Robert Adam

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Bank of England

Stock Office

1792

John Soane

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Dulwich Picture Gallery

Entrance facade

1811

John Soane

Term
[image]
Definition

Brandenburg Gate

Berlin

1789-94

Carl Gotthard Langhans

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[image]
Definition

Monument to Frederick the Great

1797

Freidrich Gilly

Term
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Definition

Neue Wache (New Guard House)

1816-18

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

 

Term
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Schauspielhaus (theatre & concert hall)

1816-26

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

 

Term
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Altes Museum

Berlin

1822-30

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Term
[image]
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Bauakademie

Berlin

1831-36

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

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All Hallows Church

London Wall

1765

George Dance the Younger

Drawing produced for John Soane's

Royal Academy Lecture

1816

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