History of Architecture - I

Introducing concepts of culture and civilization - Paleolithic and Neolithic culture - art forms and evolution of shelter - megaliths - agricultural revolution and its impact on culture and civilization with examples from Carnac and Stonehenge.

In reference to the Asia-minor region with nascent cities like Jericho, Catalhoyuk, and Hattasus etc.

Ancient River Valley Civilizations: Egypt Landscape and culture of Ancient Egypt- history - religious and funerary beliefs and practices - monumentality tomb architecture: evolution of the pyramid from the mastaba – Great Pyramid of Cheops, Gizeh etc. Temple architecture: mortuary temples and cult temples - Temple of Ammon Ra, Karnak, Khons - Temple of Abu Simbel (Rock Cut) etc.

Ancient River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia Urbanization in the fertile crescent - Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian culture, Evolution of city-states and their character, law and writing , theocracy and architecture - Ninveh, Khorsahbad, Marie, Babylon etc. Evolution of the ziggurat - Ziggurat of Ur, Urnamu etc., Evolution of the palaces - Palace of Sargon, Khorsabad - Palace at Persepolis.

Ancient Civilizations: Aegean With reference to cities in Aegean like Troy, Sparta, Mycenae, which formed the basic of Greek civilization?

Classicial Period: Greece Orders in architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian - optical illusions in architecture, Domestic architecture; Public Buildings: Agora, Stoas, Theaters, Bouletrion and Stadias. Greek temple: evolution and classification - Parthenon and Erecthion, Geometry and symmetry of individual buildings and their relationship with others based on different organizing principles and conditions of site.

Classical Period: Rome Roman history: Republic and Empire- Roman religion and the Roman temple - Roman character - lifestyle, Roman urban planning - art and architecture as imperial propaganda: forums and basilicas. Orders in architecture: Tuscan and Composite, Domestic architecture – structural forms, materials and techniques of construction. Rome: Forum Romanum and other Imperial forums, Enclosure and manipulation of space: Pantheon - Public buildings: Colloseum, Circus Maximus, Thermae of Caraculla.