Lecture Handouts | Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture | Architecture

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

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

Lecture notes files.
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)