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Principles of Architecture

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction




Contributors




Architecture Fundamentals




Applied Physics




Archaeology




Architecture and Architectural Engineering




Computer-Aided Engineering




The Construction Industry




Dynamics




Fluid Dynamics




Friction




Load




Mass and Weight




Materials Science




Moment of Inertia




Net Force




Normal Force




Recognition of Sick Building Syndrome




Solid Mechanics




Statics




Technical Drawing




Architectural Materials and Technology




Advanced Composite Materials




Advanced Composite Materials Repair




Air-Conditioning and Air-Cooling Technology




Aqueducts




Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks




Building Decay




Building Envelope




Building Information Modeling




Building Stone




Civil Engineering




Dimension Stone




Earthquake Engineering




Earth-Sheltered Construction




Electric Grids




Energy-Efficient Building




Environmental Engineering




Fire Testing of Construction Materials




Flood-Control Technology




Green Buildings




Green Energy Certification




Landslides and Slope Stability




Limestone




Marble




Sick Building Syndrome




Structural Composites




Structural Engineering




Urban Planning and Engineering




Ancient Art and Architecture




Ancient African Art and Architecture




Ancient African Art and Architecture: Great Zimbabwe




Ancient Egypt Art and Architecture




Ancient Europe Art and Architecture




Ancient Far East Art and Architecture




Ancient Greece Art and Architecture




Ancient India Art and Architecture




Ancient India Art and Architecture: Temples




Ancient Mayan Art and Architecture




Ancient Roman Art and Architecture




Ancient South American Art and Architecture: Valdivian Culture




Architects




Dankmar Adler




Gregory Ain




Leon Battista Alberti




Gian Lorenzo Bernini




Francesco Borromini




Charles Bulfinch




Eduardo Catalano




Juan de Herrera




Eugène Freyssinet




Tony Garnier




Antonio Gaudi




Frank Gehry




Walter Gropius




Jules Hardouin-Mansart




Louis I. Kahn




Paul László




Benjamin Henry Latrobe




Le Corbusier




Maya Ying Lin




Erich Mendelsohn




Michelangelo




Pier Luigi Nervi




Richard Neutra




J. J. P. Oud




I. M. Pei




Augustus Pugin




Jacopo Sansovino




Louis Sullivan




Ludwig Mies van der Rohe




Frank Lloyd Wright




Zoser




Architectural Design




Aalto Designs Villa Mairea




The AEG Turbine Factory




Art Deco




The Aswan High Dam




AT&T Building Exemplifies Postmodernism




Building of the Appian Way




The Case Study House Program




De Stijl Advocates Mondrian’s Neoplasticism




Deconstructivist Architecture




Deutscher Werkbund




Elisha Graves Otis and the Safety Elevator




English Classicism




Exploitation of the Arch




Expo 67 Features Innovative Architecture




Gaudí’s Casa Milá Apartment House




Gaudí’s Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Família




Golden Ratio




Gropius House




The Guggenheim Museum




Kahn’s Urban Planning in Dacca




Le Corbusier and Chandigarh




Megacities’ Effects on Local Climates




The New Urbanism




One World Trade Center




The Palais Stoclet




The Pentagon Building




The Petronas Twin Towers




Planned Communities




The Pompidou Center




Rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral




Roman Aqueducts




Willis Carrier and Air-Conditioning




Architectural Styles




Art Deco Architecture: Chrysler Building




Art Deco Architecture: The Empire State Building




Baroque Architecture: Building of the Karlskirche




Buddhist Architecture: Building of Borobudur




Buddhist Architecture: Temples Built at Ajanta Caves, India




Byzantine Architecture: Building of Hagia Sophia




Classical Greek Architecture: Building of the Parthenon




Classical Roman Architecture: The Flavian Amphitheatre




Functional Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye




Gothic Architecture: British Houses of Parliament




Gothic Architecture: Development of Gothic Architecture




Islamic Architecture: Building of al-Azhar Mosque




Islamic Architecture: Building of the Dome of the Rock




Islamic Architecture: Istanbul’s Nur-u Osmaniye Complex




Islamic Architecture: The Taj Mahal




Megalithic Architecture: Building of Chichén Itzá




Megalithic Architecture: Building of the Grand Canal




Megalithic Architecture: Building of the Great Pyramid




Megalithic Architecture: Development Begins at Teotihuacán




Megalithic Architecture: Monumental Architecture at Caral in Peru




Neoclassical Architecture: The El Prado Museum




Phoenician Architecture: Building the Temple of Jerusalem




Bibliography




Glossary




Organizations