Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture

Lecture Handouts

Students are requested to use this template for taking notes during the class.

• Template (PDF)
• Sample notes using the template (PDF)

The handouts linked in the following table summarize the key peoples, concepts and places covered in each lecture.

LEC #	LECTURE HANDOUTS
1	First societies (PDF)
2	The Gravettians and the hunting tradition of the north (PDF)
3	The Holocene and the agro-pastoral emergence (PDF)
4	Grains, animals and the village world (PDF)
5	Cities, gods and empires (PDF)
6	Pits and granaries: the sacred section (PDF)
7	1500 BCE: After the Cataclysm: Knossos and Karnak (PDF) Google Earth file (KMZ)
8	800 BCE: Iron and the New World Order: Greeks, Etruscans, Assyrians (PDF) Google Earth file (KMZ)
9	500 BCE: Persia and Central Asia (PDF) Google Earth file 1 (KMZ) Google Earth file 2 (KMZ)
10	Fire, water and chariots (PDF)
11	Buddhism: Out of India (PDF)
12	Chang’an (PDF)
13	Rome (PDF)
14	Rome (cont.) (PDF)
15	The Americas (PDF)
16	Early Christian transitions (PDF)
17	Early Islam: 800 CE (PDF)
18	From Armenia to Borobudur (PDF)
19	Early Hindu architecture (PDF)
20	Southeast Asia and Angkor Wat (PDF)
21	Gothic architecture: Cistercians & cathedrals (PDF)
22	Late medieval Europe: Renaissance in perspective (PDF)
23	History and time; UNESCO & cultural nationalism (PDF)
24	Colonial worlds (no handout)
25	Review session (no handout)