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NOTABLE BUILDINGS of each ERA


  • RENAISSANCE to BAROQUE ERAS
    Florence Medici-Riccardi Palace
    Florence Pitti Palace
    Rome Saint Peter's
    Rome Il Gesu
    Rome Quirinal Palace
    Rome Barberini Palace
    Mantua Ducal Palace
    Cracow Wawel Castle
    Segovia Cathedral
    France Chateau de Chantilly
    France Fontainebleau
    France Saint-Germain-en-Laye
    France Versailles
    France Louvre
    UK Hampton Court
    UK King's College Chapel Cambridge

    UK Blenheim Palace
    UK London Saint Paul's
    UK Longleat
    Vicenza Villa Rotonda
    Vicenza Teatro Olipico (Palladio)
    Venice Santa Maria della Salute
    Venice Rialto Bridge
    Spain The Escorial
    Moscow Saint Basil's Cathedral
    Mexico City Cathedral
    Amsterdam Royal Palace
    Turin Royal Palace
    Sweden Drottningholm Palace
    Germany Charlottenburg
    Munich Nymphenburg
    Vienna The Belvedere
    Vienna Schonbrunn
    Turin Superga
    Stockholm Royal Palace
    Prague Saint Nicholas

    BAROQUE to REVIVALISM
    Wurzburg The Residenz
    Madrid Royal Palace
    Naples Royal Palace of Caserta
    Austria Vierzehnheiligen
    Bavaria Ottobeuren
    Germany Die Wies
    Germany Sans Souce
    Spain Aranjuez Royal Palace
    Spain Queluz Royal Palace
    Rome Spanish Steps
    St Petersburg Tsarskoe Selo
    St Petersburf Winter Palace
    Dublin Four Courts
    Weimar Ducal Palace
    UK Syon House
    UK Strawberry Hill

    UK Brighton Pavilion (John Nash)
    UK Coalbrookdale Iron Bridge
    UK Forth Railway Bridge Edinburgh
    UK Buckingham Palace
    UK Glasgow School of Art
    (Charles Rennie Mackintosh )
    UK St Pancras Station
    UK Houses of Parliament
    Corfu Royal Palace
    USA Virginia Monticello
    USA Washington Monument
    USA Trinity Church Wall st
    USA United States Capitol Washington
    France Malmaison
    France Paris Sacre Coeur
    France Eiffel Tower (Alexandres Gustave Eiffel
    )
    France Arc de Triomphe
    Bavaria Schloss Linderhof
    Bavaria Herrenchiemsee
    Barcelona Sagrada Familia

    Vienna PO Savings Bank
    Vienna Secession Building

    20th CENTURY
    Amsterdam The Exchange
    Helsinki Railway Station
    Germany Stuttgart Neue Staatsgalerie
    Germany Frankfurt Commerzbank
    Germany Berlin Reichstag (Sir Norman Forster)
    Germany Dessau Bauhaus
    Germany Berlin AEG Turbine Factory
    Germany Potsdam Einstein Tower (Mendelsohn)
    Germany Hamburg Chilehaus
    France Pompidou Centre (Richard Rogers)
    France Marseilles Unite d'Habitation
    France Ronchamp Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier )
    UK Lloyd's Building London (Richard Rogers)
    UK Norwich University of East Anglia (Denys Lasdun)
    UK Coventry Cathedral
    UK Selfridge's Store
    Australian Sydney Opera House (Jorn Utzon )

    Australia Sydney Harbour Bridge
    Prague Church of the Sacred Heart
    USA Chicago Auditorium Building
    USA Buffalo Guaranty Building
    USA Flatiron Building (Flatiron Building)

    USA Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
    USA Fallingwatter Pennsylvania (Frank Lloyd Wright)
    USA Johnson Wax Building Racine (Frank Lloyd Wright)
    USA New York Chrysler Building
    USA New York Empire State Building New York
    USA New York Rockefeller Center
    USA New York Seagram Building
    USA New York Grand Central Station
    USA New York TWA Terminal
    USA New York Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright)
    Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (Frank Gehry)
    USA Gateway Arch St Louis
    USA Santa Monica Eames House ( Charles & Ray Eames)
    USA Chicago Marina City (Bertrand Goldberg)

    USA Chicago Lake Point Tower (Mies van der Rohe)
    USA Atlanta High Museum of Art (Richard Meier)
    USA Illinois Ford House (Bruce Goff)
    Brussels The Atonium
    Venezuela Maracaibo Lake Bridge
    Turin Palace of Labour
    Brazil G Brasilia Cathedral
    Canada Habit Montreal (Moshe Safdie)
    Kuala Lumpur Petronas Towers (Cesar Pelli)


    NOTABLE ARCHITECTS

    RENAISSANCE
    Pierre Lescot 1500-1578 commenced building the Louvre in 1546
    Inigo Jones 1573-1652 - Banqueting Hall Whitehall London

    BAROQUEc1580-c1750
    Jules Hardouin Mansart 1646-1708 - Les Invalides Chapel Paris, designed La Place Vendome
    Vignola & Della Porta: Church of Il Gesu Rome
    Borromini: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Rome
    Longhena: Santa Maria della Salute Venice
    Poppelmann: Zwinger Pavilion Dresden
    Prandtauer: Melk Church Austria

    ROCOCO PALLADIAN STYLE NEO CLASSICAL
    Johann Balthasar Neumann 1687-1753 - Church of Vierzehenheiligen in Franconia
    Louis Levau 1612-1670 and Jules Hardouin Mansart- Palace of Versailles
    Charles Le Brun Palace of Versailles Hall of Mirrors

    FRANCE
    Etienne-Louis Boullee - 1728-1799
    Claude Nicholas Ledoux 1736-1806

    Boffrand: Hotel de Soubise Paris

    GERMAN
    De Cuvillies: Amalienburg Pavilion, Nympenburg Bavaria
    England Georgian
    Inigo Jones 1573-1760 : Banqueting House Whitehall London
    Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723: St Mary le Bow London
    St Pauls Cathedral London
    Colen Campbell - Mereworth, Kent, Houghton Hall
    Robert Adam 1728-1792 - Intriors
    Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779 - Furniture
    Thomas Sheraton c1751-1806 - Furniture
    George Hepplewhite - Furniture

    NEO CLASSICAL
    Smirke: British Museum London
    GOTHIC REVIVAL - NEO TUDOR
    Barry & Pugin Houses of Parliament London
    John Nash
    - Buildings in Brighton England
    Alexandres Gustave Eiffel - 1832-1923 - Eiffel Tower Paris
    Joseph Paxton: 1803-1865 Crystal Palace London
    Robert Maillart 1872-1940 - pioneered use of reinforced concrete
    ART NOUVEAU
    William Morris 1834-1896 - Designer
    Endell: Staircase Studio Elvira Munich
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh - 1868-1928 - Glasgow School of Art Scotland
    Aubrey Beardsley - 1872-1898 - Designer
    Toulouse-Lautrec - 1864-1901 - Posters
    Hector Guimard - 1867-1942 - entrances to the Metro Paris
    Victor Horta - 1861-1947 - Tassel House Brussels
    Van de Velde - 1863-1957

    Henry Hobson Richardson 1838-1886 - Marshal Field Wholesale Store Chicago (Demolished 1930)
    Louis Sullivan - 1856-1924 - Schlesinger and Mayer Store Chicago
    Antoni Gaudi 1852-1926 - Church of the Sagrada Familia Barcelona
    Casa Mila Apartments Barcelona
    Walter Gropius - 1883-1969 Workshop of the Bauhaus in Dessau
    Gropius & Associates: Pan-Am Building New York
    Bennet, Martin, Mathews & Lewis: Alton Estate Wandsworth London
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon: Empire State Building New York
    Peter Behrens - 1868-1938
    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - 1886-1969 blocks of apartments in Chicago
    Seagram Building New York (with Philip Johnson)
    Farnsworth House Illinois USA 1950
    Buckminster Fuller 1895: Geodesic Dome, Union Tank Car Co. Louisiana USA
    German Pavilion at Barcelona Exhibition of 1929
    Crown Hall Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago
    Le Corbusier designed a number of concrete houses
    Savoye House Poissy-sur-Seine France

    Swiss Student's Hostel, Cite Universitaire Paris
    Unite d'Habitation Apartment House Marseilles France
    Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp France
    Louis Kahn - 1901-1974 - Jonas Salk Institue La Jolla California
    Eero Saarinen - 1910-1961 - Trans World Airlines Terminal New York
    Pier Luigi Nervi - 1891-1979 - Sports Palace Rome (with Annibale Vitellozzi)
    Auguste Perret - 1874-1955
    Adolf Loos - 1870-1933 - Steiner House Vienna 1910
    Peter Behrens - 1869-1940 - AEG Turbine Factory Berlin
    Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer - Fagus Shoe Factory
    Bruno Taut - 1880-1938 - Staircase "Glass House" Werkbund Exhibition Cologne 1914
    Max Berg - 1870-1948 - Centennial Hall Breslau
    Gerrit Rietveld - 1888-1964 - Schroder House Utrecht Holland 1924
    Frank Lloyd Wright - 1869-1959 Imperial Hotel Tokyo which is earthquake proof
    Homes in the Arizona desert
    Guggenheim Museum New York
    "Falling Water" - the Kauffman house in Pennsylvania
    Laboratory-tower for Johnson Wax Company Wisconsin
    Pier Luigi Nervi - 1891
    Marcel Breuer - 1902-1981 - Masters House Dessau Germany c 1929

    Richard Neutra - 1892
    Ed Stone - 1902
    Philip Johnson - 1906
    Paul Rudolph - 1918
    Louis Sullivan - 1850-1924 - built the first entirely steel-framed skyscraper
    Oscar Niemeyer - 1907 Brasilia Brazil 1960
    Richard Meier - 1934 The Atheneum New Harmony Indianna
    Gustav Peichl - 1928 Austrian Radio and Television Studio Salzburg
    Rogers and Piano - Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
    Norman Foster 1935 Hongkong Bank
    Santiago Calatrava 1951 - TGV Super Train Station Satolas Lyons
    Mario Botta 1943
    Aldo Rossi 1931-1997
    Jean Nouvel 1945
    Nicholas Grimshaw 1939
    Rem Koolhaas 1944 - Netherlands Dance Theatre Amsterdam
    Michael Graves - 1934 - Public Services Building Portland Oregon
    James Stirling 1926-1992 -
    Coop Himmelblau - Roof Conversion in Vienna

    Behnisch and Partner - Hysolar Research Institute University of Stuttgart
    Bernard Tschumi - 1944 Parc de La Villette Paris 1983
    Frank Gehry - 1929 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain
    Eric Owen Moss - 1943 - Samitaur Culver City California


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