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I. Influences on the development of architecture
A. Location, climate and materials
B. Technology
C. Social, cultural and religious
II. Review of Romanesque and medieval architecture
III. Gothic architecture
A. Cultural contexts
B. Early Gothic
C. High Gothic
D. English Gothic
E. German and Italian Gothic
F. Medieval construction
G. Medieval houses and castles
H. City planning
IV. Renaissance
A. Cultural contexts
B. Important early architects such as Brunelleschi, Bartolomeo, Alberti
C. Work of important Renaissance architects such as Da Vinci, Bramante, Michelangelo,
Palladio
D. Late Renaissance Mannerism
E. City plans
F. Garden design
G. The Renaissance in France
H. The Renaissance in England
I. City planning
V. Baroque Architecture
A. Cultural contexts
B. Reformation and counter-reformation
C. Pope Sixtus V and the re-planning of Rome
D. Urban open spaces in Rome
E. Work of important architects of the Italian Baroque era such as Bernini, Borromini
F. Baroque architecture in Northern Italy, Central Europe, France and England
G. Work of other important Baroque architects such as Wren, Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh and
Gibbs
H. City planning
VI. The Eighteenth Century
A. Cultural contexts
B. English Neo-Palladians
C. Return to antiquity
D. French architects and the state
E. French architectural education, Beaux-Arts
F. Industrial revolution
G. Romantic landscape
H. Picturesque buildings
I. Work of important architects of the 18th century such as Adam, Chambers, Boullee and
Ledoux
J. City planning
VII.The Nineteenth Century
A. Cultural contexts
B. Neo-classicism and architects such as Schinkle, Soane, Latrobe, Jefferson, Charles and
Lady Wilbraham
C. Gothic revival and architects such as Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc
D. Ecole des Beaux-Arts and work of architects such as Hunt and McKim, Mead and White
E. Architectural applications of iron and steel and work of architects such as Paxton,
Labrouste and Eiffel
F. Skeletal construction in concrete and wood
G. Arts and Crafts movement and work of architects such as Ruskin, Morris and
Shaw-Voysey-Muthesius
H. Art Nouveau and work of architects such as Hora, Guimard, Gaudi and Mackintosh
I. Viennese Secession
J. Search for an American style and work of architects such as Richardson, Sullivan, Irwin,
Bethune and Hayden
K. City planning
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