This trail follows twelve building materials in roughly the order they changed what builders could make, from hand-built earth walls and fired clay, through Roman concrete and the nineteenth-century iron and cement...
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This path gathers styles that are defined less by a single designer than by where, for whom or when they were built. It begins with the building projects of one ruler in the first century BC, moves through a medieval...
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This path follows how ordinary houses were shaped by the places where people settled. It starts with the general idea of colonial architecture, then moves through the seventeenth century New England house forms, the...
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Most buildings in the world were never designed by a famous architect. This trail follows the ordinary house through eleven entries, starting with a timber method and the farmhouse that shelters people and animals...
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This path moves across Asia from east to west, stopping at eleven building traditions that each answer a different question: what is the frame made of, who is it built for, and whose styles does it borrow. It begins...
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These eight styles follow one question through the twentieth century and beyond: what should shape a building, the past, the machine, the region, the user or the idea? The path runs from the apartment blocks of pre-war...
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This path crosses Asia through eight building traditions, moving from caves carved out of solid rock and the temple styles of India, through Islamic and Sikh building on the subcontinent and a monsoon house of Assam, to...
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These eight styles were each shaped by a community deciding what its buildings should say about who it was, from a political choice made by an imperial administration to the cultural programmes of newly independent...
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Every culture builds a home, but climate, materials, family structure and social rank shape it differently. This path moves through thirteen dwelling types, from thatched and stilted houses of Southeast Asia to...
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Great European styles rarely stayed in one shape or one country. This path follows eleven of them as they were adapted to a region, a faith, a school or a century, from Romanesque in Portugal and Gothic in France to...
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Some architectural styles are named for a look, and others for an argument about what a building is for. This path follows twelve of the second kind in order, from an eighteenth century case for prisons that frighten to...
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These ten styles are each tied to a place, a people or a local material, from the Kingdom of the Lombards to the redwood houses of the Bay Area. Read in rough order of time, they show how builders answered local ground...
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Some styles carry a name from the people who ruled, ordered or inspired them, and the label is often kinder to the person than to the facts. This path follows eleven such styles in order, from twelfth century western...
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Across three millennia and four continents, builders answered the same threat with stone, mud and timber. This path moves from the Bronze Age nuraghe of Sardinia through Scottish brochs, Andean cloud-forest fortresses...
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This path travels the edges of Europe and the lands beside it, from the reindeer-carried tent of the far north through timber churches, national romantic halls and Baroque variations in the west and south, then east...
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Eight building traditions of the Pacific and its neighbors, from Sumatra to New Zealand. Each answers local climate and materials with timber, thatch, coral or basalt, and in each the form of the building expresses how...
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This trail follows the everyday buildings of the United States rather than its landmarks. It starts with the log cabin forms of the frontier, moves through the stone rowhouse, the false front shop and the repainted...
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This trail follows the long habit of building in the manner of an earlier age. It begins with the sixteenth century English style that later generations copied, then moves through the revivals and eclectic blends of the...
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These ten traditions share the same working materials, earth, thatch and timber, and the same habit of organizing buildings around a courtyard or a circle of huts. The path runs from the West African courtyard compounds...
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This trail follows French taste through eight styles recorded in the atlas, from the Frankish stone carving of Gaul to the French-inspired houses and interiors built abroad. It moves in rough order of the French period...
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This path follows eight building traditions of the Americas, moving from the stepped profiles of central Mexico through the Maya lowlands, down the Peruvian coast and highlands, across to the Caribbean, and finally to a...
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Every style here reaches back to an earlier one: Moorish courts, Tudor manors, Byzantine churches, Roman cottages, colonial farmhouses and Pueblo adobe. Taken in the order each revival appeared, from garden follies...
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This path begins with six building traditions that grew from their own soils and faiths, from the stupas of ancient Sri Lanka to the red-tiled halls of Okinawa and the marble gardens of the Mughal court, then turns to...
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These eight styles share a habit of building from what the land supplies and shaping the result to its weather. The path runs from the ancient Chinese timber frame and the stacked-log method through Alpine and German...
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This trail compares twelve traditional dwellings built from what the builders had close at hand: snow, hides, felt, turf, logs, thatch, packed earth and stone. It begins with the portable shelters of cold and open...
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This path follows the modern movement from its breakaway beginnings in 1897 to the contemporary answers to it. It starts with a Viennese secession and a philosophy of building from within, passes through the functional...
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These ten styles follow builders who worked with what their land gave them: carved stone over mud brick, living cliff faces, volcanic tuff, solid bedrock, glazed brick, coral limestone and sun dried mud. The path runs...
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This trail walks nine of the best known style names in Western architecture in the order they arose, from the heavy round-arched churches of about the year 1000 to the ornament-friendly reaction of the late twentieth...
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This trail follows the American home rather than the monument, from fortified New England garrisons to the oversized suburban house. Each stop is a house type or domestic style that the atlas already describes, taken...
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This path moves east from the temple builders of India through the Himalayan valleys and the Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms of the mainland to the island houses of Indonesia. Each stop is a regional building tradition, and...
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Gothic was never one style. This path follows eight of its regional and monastic variants in roughly the order they appeared, from the plain abbeys of Bernard of Clairvaux to the flame-like tracery of the late Middle...
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Most architectural styles are named for a look. These eight are named for a political body: a Bronze Age civilization, an Iron Age kingdom, two imperial dynasties of South India, a Persian dynasty, a German emperor's...
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Nine styles that looked backward or to their own region for authority, from the Greek temple front of the mid eighteenth century to the Nordic classicism of 1910 to 1930. Each one answers the question of what a building...
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These ten styles share one question: what happens to architecture when a state wants buildings that speak for it. The path begins with the Italian rationalists of the 1920s, follows the classical and monumental answers...
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This trail follows building in Iberia and the lands Spain and Portugal later ruled, from the Visigothic kingdom of the fifth to eighth centuries, through the Islamic and Christian traditions that shared the peninsula...
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This path follows building in England and Scotland in the order the styles arose, from timber halls and stone churches before 1066 to the nineteenth-century revivals that looked back at Tudor and Scottish castle...
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Islamic architecture was not invented at one stroke but built up dynasty by dynasty, each borrowing from the one before. This path begins with the Persian vaulting that early Muslim builders inherited, steps back to see...
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This path follows ten movements in the order they appeared, from a nineteenth century revolt against factory production to the computer aided curves of the 1990s and after. Each stop answers the question of what a...
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This trail follows the styles that shaped buildings in the United States, from the neoclassical houses of the new republic to the classically inspired public buildings of the 1960s. Each stop is a style whose American...
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These twelve styles sit outside the Greek, Roman and European sequence that most architecture surveys follow. They run from the river valleys of the ancient Near East to the Americas, and each is held together by a...
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This path follows twelve architectural styles in rough chronological order, from the Greek temple of around 600 BC to the deconstructivist work of the late twentieth century. Each stop shows what a style took from the...
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This path follows the classical building tradition of the Mediterranean from the Etruscans to the Beaux-Arts, with the medieval Gothic and its nineteenth century revival as the counterpoint that kept pulling the other...
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Ten styles that follow the classical vocabulary of columns, arches and domes from its Greek codification through Roman engineering, Byzantine and Carolingian inheritance, the medieval Gothic alternative, and the...
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This path follows architecture from the nineteenth century, when builders borrowed freely from the past, to the late twentieth century, when architects tried to build in ways no earlier age had. Each style answers or...
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A chronological walk through the moments that reset architecture's own idea of itself, from an ancient Roman treatise to a cathedral's twenty-first-century restoration.
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Seven stops through this wave own research: the two certifying bodies that anchor sustainable building practice, the energy standard one of them administers, a benchmark it feeds into, and three of the wave own...
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Twenty-five centuries of building in nine stops: the temple that perfected the column, the dome nothing exceeded for an age, the cathedral that dissolved its walls into glass, and the frame of steel that finally let...
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From the arch to the vault to the dome itself: one structural idea, traced from Rome's Pantheon through Byzantium and the Renaissance to a Chicago houseboat of stone.
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Modern architecture argued its case in words before it built its case in walls. This trail follows that argument era by era. It starts with a slogan coined in Chicago in 1896 and a polemic delivered in Vienna against...
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