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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

20^th 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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