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| Movements (13 styles in chronological order) |
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| Egypt, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman-Republic, Roman-Empire, Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Roccoco |
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| Credited with the start of Gothic Architecture |
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| Augustus Caesar's main builder |
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| Leon Battista Alberti; Della Pittura |
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| Developed the first treatise on perspective; architectural theorist who published the first edition of Vitruvius |
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| Byzantine architect appointed by Emperor Justinian to construct Hagia Sophia along with Isidorus of Miletus |
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| Roman architect; Trajan's architect |
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| Produced the final design of Les Halles |
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| Whose design was first accepted for the new St. Peter's; Pope Julius' favorite architect, proposed central dome, 4 equal naves |
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| The founder of the English Garden movement |
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| Lancelot "Capability" Brown |
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| Landscape architect; told clients that their sites have great capabilities hence the nickname |
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| Won the competition for the design of the dome of the Florence Cathedral; Quinto Acuto Profile |
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| "I think, therefore, I am" quote; cartesian grid; Discourse on Method |
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| Mathematician in eighteenth century; calculus and graphing; created the first building to employ his idea of column buckling that was called Sainte Genevieve |
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| The first scientist to investigate the structural properties of materials |
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| Won the competition for the design of the doors for the Florence Baptistry |
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| Chief assistant to Christopher Wren; helped rebuild London after the Great Fire and St. Paul's Cathedral; grid planning |
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| The second Jardin d' Hiver designer |
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| Greek architect; Parthenon contributor; Temple of Apollo |
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| Byzantine architect; appointed by Emperor Justinian to construct Hagia Sophia along with Anthemius of Tralles |
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| The architect responsible for bringing Renaissance architecture to England; constructed New West Front |
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| Greek architect; with Iktinos created the Pantheon; Temple of Nike |
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| One of the originators for English Landscape Architects; 'nature' gardening |
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| Sainte-Genevieve library ( aka Pantheon in Paris); first building to have the new scientific approach to structure applied |
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| The mid-eighteenth century architectural theoretician who related the evolution of classical architecture back to the idea of a "Primitive Hut"; three faults of his time: engaged columns, pilasters, columns on base |
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| French landscape architect; primary gardener for Louis XIV of France; Palace of Versailles; French formal garden style |
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| The first Italian architect in the 1700s to express an interest in Gothic architecture; first to express the ideas of structural rationalism; most famous student was Piranesi |
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| "Remarks on Hot Houses"; 1817, first articulated the potential for iron to evolve a new architectural style devoid of Greek or Gothic ornament |
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| Architect during the time of Charlemagne; Carolingian architecture; Basilica of San Vitale; Charlemagne's Palace in Aachen -- Palatine |
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| Gravity; creation of the hypothesis |
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| Creator of the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth (The Crystal Palace) |
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| The first architectural theorist to discover and write that there was not a fixed set of proportions in the Classical orders; Baroque; French translation of Vitruvius; wanted to preserve the timeless quality of monarchy |
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| Credited as being the "Father of the Renaissance"; coined the term "Gothic" as a pejorative description of everything made in the land north of the Alps |
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| Italian artist; etchings of Rome and fictitious and atmospheric "prisons"; "The Smoking Fire"; "The Drawbridge"; "The Arch with the Shell Ornament"; Carceri etchings: 1. structural rationalism 2. spatial conceptions/ideas |
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| Last great English landscape architect |
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| One of the early French architects to have an interest in Gothic architecture |
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| Wrote the only Classical treatise on architecture recovered during the Renaissance; De Architectura; published by Leon Battista Alberti; three words etched in architectural history: 1. commodity (function) 2. firmness (proportion) 3. delight (interest) |
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| Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral; unique structural solution for the dome -- roman dome, inner dome, load up with brick cone |
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