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4.605x Global Architecture: Part 1
Reading List
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Lecture # |
Source |
Pages to read |
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1: First Societies |
Architecture of First Societies |
3-22 |
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2: The Gravettians and the Great Hunting |
Architecture of First Societies |
49-74 |
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3: The Holocene |
Architecture of First Societies |
74-86; 135-150; 451-452; 462-467 |
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4: The Agro-Pastoral Emergence |
Architecture of First Societies |
225-243; 256-262; 263-273 |
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5: Megalithic Tradition |
Architecture of First Societies |
315-316; 338-396 |
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6: Cities, Gods and Empires |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
16-19; 28-38 |
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7: 1500 BCE: After the Cataclysm: Knossos and Karnak |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
60-73 |
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8: Iron and the New World Order |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
98-112 |
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9: 500 BCE: Persia and Greece |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
116-131 |
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10: Fire, Water and Chariots |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
96-97; 408 |
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11: Buddhism: Out of India |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
176-179; 238-241 |
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12: Americas |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
52-54; 81-84; 88-92; 222-228 |
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13: Rome Urbi et Orbi |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
154-164 |
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14: The Pantheon and Petra |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
173-175; 194-205 |
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15: Early Christian Architecture |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
249-256 |
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16: Byzantium and Armenia |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
268-277 |
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17: Early Islam: 800 CE |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
301-307 |
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18: Early Hindu Architecture |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
244-245; 278-281; 340-347 |
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19: Borobudur, Angkor Wat and S.E. Asia |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
314-316; 318-320; 392-397 |
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20: Inner Asia and Beyond in the 13th Century |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
379–385; 402-406; 412-416 |
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21: Monasteries and Cathedrals in Europe |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
324-325; 367-374; 417-425 |
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22: Sienna and Florence in Perspective |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
426-427; 460-461 |
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23: Renaissance Transition |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
462-474 |
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24: The Colonial World |
A Global History of Architecture, 2e |
791-797 |