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Contents Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Architecture and building 3 Architectural history 4 Space and function 5 Plans and images 6 Materials and construction 7 The exterior 8 Styles and periods 9 Site and place 10 Sources Notes Glossary Index ILLUSTRATIONS The authors and publisher would like to thank all those who have granted permission to reproduce illustrations. We have made every effort to contact and acknowledge copyright holders, but if any errors have been made we would be happy to correct them at a later printing. Frontispiece Malawian miners' village, Tengenenge, Zimbabwe, 1994 Figure 2.1 Crystal Palace, London, 1851 Figure 2.2 Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 2001 Figure 2.3 Sydney Opera House, Australia, 1972 Figure 2.4 Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1632{-}47 Figure 2.5 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1999 Figure 2.6 National Theatre, London, 1975 Figure 2.7 Richmond Riverside, Surrey, 1988 Figure 2.8 Tavistock Square, London, c.1780 Figure 2.9 S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1665{-}7 Figure 2.10 Chicago Tribune Tower, competition entry, 1922 Figure 2.11 Robie House, Chicago, 1908 Figure 2.12 Jewish Museum, Berlin, 1989{-}98 Figure 2.13 66 Frognal, London, 1938 Figure 2.14 Gasholder, Battersea, London, c.1880 Figure 3.1 Stonehenge, Wiltshire Figure 3.2 The Circus, Bath Figure 3.3 An early Victorian town compared with an imaginary medieval town Figure 3.4 Great Zimbabwe ruins Figure 3.5 Buttresses at Holy Trinity, Blythburgh Figure 3.6 Scissor arches, Wells Cathedral Figure 3.7 Folie at Parc de la Villette, Paris Figure 3.8 Fourteenth century tower of St Mary de Castro, Leicester Figure 3.9 Converted Victorian church of St John the Divine, Leicester 1853{-}4 Figure 3.10 Reconstruction of German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1992 Figure 4.1 St Maclou, Rouen, France, 1436{-}1531 Figure 4.2 Sanchi Stupa, Central India, 1st century BC Figure 4.3 St Pancras Station train shed, London, 1863{-}5 Figure 4.4 Willis Building, Ipswich, 1975 Figure 4.5 Saltaire housing, c.1860 Figure 4.6 Plan of a Mashona homestead, Zimbabwe, 1991 Figure 4.7 Paris Opéra, France, 1861{-}74 Figure 4.8 Muqarnas in the Hall of the Two Sisters, Alhambra, Spain,14th century Figure 4.9 Vierzehnheiligen Church, Franconia, 1743{-}72 Figure 4.10 TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York, 1956{-}62 Figure 4.11 Ground floor plan, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1925-6 Figure 4.12 Interior, City Hall, London, 2002 Figure 4.13 Brise-soleil at Broadgate, London Figure 4.14 Champa Baoli, Mandu, India, early 16th century Figure 4.15 The Queens Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, 1994 Figure 4.16 Inglenook, Walnuts Cottage, Oxfordshire, c.1550 Figure 4.17 Lloyds Building, London, 1986 Figure 5.1 Architectural drawing conventions Figure 5.2 Merchant' loggia, shops and apartments, Lyon, c. 1540 Figure 5.3 Plan of third floor of Casa Milá, 1906 Figure 5.4 Street plan showing the relationship between dwellings and streets Figure 5.5 Askham Hall, Yorkshire, 1885 Figure 5.6 Plan of courtyard house, Beijing Figure 5.7 Plan of Imperial Palace, Beijing Figure 5.8 Ground floor plan of Syon House Figure 5.9 Church of Brunau, near Prague, 1708{-}15 Figure 5.10 Second-level plan of the Paris Opéra, 1861{-}74 Figure 5.11 Designs for the Palazzo da Porto Festa, Vicenza, c.1549 Figure 5.12 Sydney Opera House, section, 1957{-}65 Figure 5.13 Village school and master's house, 1852 Figure 5.14 Summer house design 'Konsoli', Finland, 1927 Figure 5.15 Axonometric projection of Alexander Fleming House, 1960 Figure 5.16 Perspective drawing of Alexander Fleming House, 1960 Figure 5.17 Design model of Stoke Park Infant School, 1989 Figure 5.18 Structural model of Stoke Park Infant School Figure 5.19 Stoke Park Infant School as completed Figure 5.20 Presentation model of Stoke Park Infant School Figure 5.21 Presentation model of Richmond Riverside Figure 5.22 Detail of Richmond Riverside Figure 5.23 Clay model of Minoan house from Arhánes c. 1700{-}1400 BC Figure 5.24 Crypt of Santa Coloma, 1898, 1908{-}14 Figure 5.25 Hussain{-}Doshi Gupa, Ahmedabad, 1994 Figure 5.26 Model of King's Cross Redevelopment, 1992 Figure 6.1 Eastgate Office Building and Shopping Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1996 Figure 6.2 Cottage of granite with brick dressings, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, nineteenth century Figure 6.3 Clamp firing, Mozambique, 2002 Figure 6.4 Samanid Mausoleum, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, before AD 943 Figure 6.5 No. 8 Palace Gate, London, 1873{-}5 (J.J.Stevenson) Figure 6.6 Knapped flint wall, Lewes Grammar School, Sussex, 1512 Figure 6.7 Somerset House, London, 1776{-}1801 Figure 6.8 Schwarzenberg Palace, old city of Prague, 1545{-}67 Figure 6.9 House and office of the mine manager, Globe and Phoenix Goldmine, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, 1895 Figure 6.10 Cardboard City, London, December 1990 Figure 6.11 Schlumberger Petroleum Research Laboratories, Cambridge, 1984 Figure 6.12 Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral, showing fan vaults, rib vaults and liernes, 1321{-}1349. Figure 6.13 St Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow, 1554{-}60 Figure 6.14 Flying buttresses, King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 1503{-}c.1512 Figure 6.15 Geodesic dome, Montreal, 1967 Figure 6.16 Eden Project, Cornwall, 2001 Figure 6.17 Hammerbeam truss, St John the Baptist, Badingham, Suffolk, 15th century Figure 6.18 Chinese roof structure, Wutai Shan, Shanxi, Fogung Si, Tang dynasty, 857 Figure 6.19 Baths, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, 1862 Figure 7.1{emsp}H.M. Prison, Welford Road, Leicester, 1825{-}8 Figure 7.2{emsp}Bradford Town Hall, 1870{-}3 Figure 7.3{emsp}Selfridges Store, Birmingham, 2003 Figure 7.4{emsp}Gwalior Fort, Central India, 800{-}c. late 1400 Figure 7.5{emsp}Chiswick House, London, 1723{-}9 Figure 7.6{emsp}Dr Edith Farnsworth House, Piano, Illinois, USA, 1946{-}50 Figure 7.7{emsp}Barningham Hall, Norfolk, 1612, west façade Figure 7.8{emsp}Embankment Place, London, 1991 Figure 7.9{emsp}West Front, Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France, begun c. 1220 Figure 7.10{emsp}Vishvanath Temple, Khajuraho, India, 1002 Figure 7.11{emsp}Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 1610{-}16 Figure 7.12{emsp}Blaise Hamlet, Avon, 1810{-}11 Figure 7.13{emsp}Dulwich College Art Gallery and Mausoleum, London, 1811{-}14 Figure 7.14{emsp}Downton Castle, Herefordshire, 1772{-}8 Figure 7.15{emsp}885 Third Avenue (Lipstick Building), New York, 1983{-}6 Figure 7.16{emsp}Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh, India, 1956{-}62 Figure 7.17{emsp}Red House, Bexley Heath, Kent, 1859 Figure 7.18{emsp}Perrycroft, Colwall, near Malvern, 1893{-}4 Figure 7.19{emsp}Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, 1456{-}70 Figure 7.20{emsp}Hut of a Venda chief, Victoria Falls Craft Village, Zimbabwe Figure 7.21{emsp}Sculptural decoration, Keshava Temple, Somnathpur, c.1268 Figure 7.22{emsp}Hoover Factory, London, 1931{-}2 Figure 7.23{emsp}Théâtre and Palaçio d'Abraxis, Noisy-le-Grand, France 1978{-}82 Figure 7.24{emsp}National Gallery Extension, London, 1991 Figure 8.1{emsp}The orders: (a) Greek Doric, Ionic, Corinthian b) Tuscan, Roman Doric, Composite Figure 8.2{emsp}Temple of Concordia, Agrigento, Italy, c. 440 BC Figure 8.3{emsp}Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928{-}9 Figure 8.4{emsp}St Pancras parish church, London, 1819{-}22 Figure 8.5{emsp}Monument to Newton, project, 1784 Figure 8.6{emsp}Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1975{-}80 Figure 8.7{emsp}The Library, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, 1754 Figure 8.8{emsp}Victoria Terminus, Mumbai, India, 1878{-}87 Figure 8.9{emsp}Victoria Memorial Hall (now National Art Gallery), Madras, India, 1909 Figure 8.10{emsp}Buland Darwaza (Gateway of Victory), Fatehpur Sikri, Gujurat, India, 1573 Figure 8.11{emsp}Houses in Regent Road, Leicester, 1881 Figure 8.12{emsp}Tesco supermarket at night, Amersham, Buckinghamshire Figure 8.13{emsp}Wheat barn, Cressing Temple, Essex, c. 1255 Figure 8.14{emsp}Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1580{-}1588 Figure 8.15{emsp}Stoneywell Cottage, Leicestershire, 1899 Figure 8.16{emsp}Entrance arch detail, Stock Exchange, Chicago, 1893{-}4 Figure 9.1{emsp}Plan of Washington, 1800 Figure 9.2{emsp}Falling Water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, USA, 1936 Figure 9.3{emsp}Monastery (now Convent) de la Tourette, 1957-60 Figure 9.4{emspUnderground car park, Lyon, 1994 Figure 9.5{emsp}Barcelona, plan Figure 9.6{emsp}Temple of British Worthies, Stowe, 1735 Figure 9.7{emsp}Chinese bridges, Oranienbaum, Germany, c.1785 Figure 9.8{emsp}He Yuan, Yangzhou, China, c.1880 Figure 9.9{emsp}Moongate, Yihe Yuan, rebuilt, 1888 Figure 9.10{emsp}Crammant Cottages, Leicester, c.1850 Figure 9.11 {emsp}Emscher Park, Duisberg, Germany
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Architecture, Architecture and society