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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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Abbot Suger
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Credited with the start of Gothic Architecture
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Marcus Agrippa
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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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Anthemius of Tralles
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Byzantine architect appointed by Emperor Justinian to construct Hagia Sophia along with Isidorus of Miletus
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Apollodorus of Damascus
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Roman architect; Trajan's architect
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Victor Baltard
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Produced the final design of Les Halles
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Donato Bramante
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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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Charles Bridgeman
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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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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Won the competition for the design of the dome of the Florence Cathedral; Quinto Acuto Profile
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Rene Descartes
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"I think, therefore, I am" quote; cartesian grid; Discourse on Method
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Leonhard Euler
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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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Galileo Galilei
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The first scientist to investigate the structural properties of materials
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Won the competition for the design of the doors for the Florence Baptistry
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Robert Hooke
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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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Hector Horeau
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The second Jardin d' Hiver designer
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Iktinos
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Greek architect; Parthenon contributor; Temple of Apollo
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Isidorus of Miletus
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Byzantine architect; appointed by Emperor Justinian to construct Hagia Sophia along with Anthemius of Tralles
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Inigo Jones
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The architect responsible for bringing Renaissance architecture to England; constructed New West Front
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Kallikrates
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Greek architect; with Iktinos created the Pantheon; Temple of Nike
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William Kent
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One of the originators for English Landscape Architects; 'nature' gardening
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Henri Labrouste
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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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Marc Antonie Laugier
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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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Andre Le Notre
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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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Carlo Lodolio
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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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John Claudius Loudon
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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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Odo of Metz
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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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Isaac Newton
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Gravity; creation of the hypothesis
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Joseph Paxton
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Creator of the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth (The Crystal Palace)
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Claude Perrault
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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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Francesco Petrarch
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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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Giovanni Piranesi
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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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Humphry Repton
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Last great English landscape architect
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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One of the early French architects to have an interest in Gothic architecture
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Vitruvius
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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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Christopher Wren
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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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