AR6101 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE - I - ANNA UNIV B.ARCH FIRST SEMESTER SYLLABUS

ANNA UNIVERSITY B.ARCH 1ST SEMESTER SYLLABUS REGULATION 2013 AR6101 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE - I OBJECTIVES :  To inform about the development of architecture in the Ancient Western World and the  cultural and contextual determinants that produced that architecture.   To understand architecture as evolving within specific cultural contexts including aspects  of politics, society, religion and climate.  To gain knowledge of the development of architectural form with reference to  Technology, Style and Character in the prehistoric world and in Ancient Egypt, West  Asia, Greece and Rome. UNIT I PREHISTORIC AGE Introducing concepts of culture and civilization – Paleolithic and Neolithic Culture – art forms  and evolution of shelter – megaliths – agricultural revolution and its impact on culture and  civilization.  UNIT II ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS: EGYPT Landscape and culture of Ancient Egypt – history – religious and funerary beliefs and  practices – monumentality – tomb architecture: evolution of the pyramid from the mastaba – temple architecture: mortuary temples and cult temples Great Pyramid of Cheops, Gizeh – Temple of Ammon Ra, Karnak – Temple of Abu Simbel (Rock Cut) UNIT III ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS: MESOPOTAMIA Urbanization in the Fertile Crescent – Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian culture – evolution of city-states and their character – law and writing – theocracy and architecture – evolution of the ziggurat – palaces.Ziggurat of Ur, Urnamu – Palace of Sargon, Khorsabad – Palace at Persepolis UNIT IV CLASSICAL PERIOD: GREECE Landscape and culture of Greece – Minoan and Mycenaean cultures – Hellenic and  Hellenistic cultures – Greek character – Greek polis and democracy – Greek city planning – architecture in the archaic and classic periods – Domestic architecture; Public Buildings:  Agora, stoas, theaters, bouletrion and stadias – Greek temple: evolution and classification – Parthenon and Erection – orders in architecture: Doric, lonic, Corinthian – optical illusions in  architecture.  UNIT V CLASSICAL PERIOD: ROME Roman history: Republic and Empire – Roman religion and the Roman temple – Roman  character – lifestyle – Roman urban planning – art and architecture as imperial propaganda:  forums and basilicas – domestic architecture – structural forms, materials and techniques of  construction – orders in architecture: Tuscan and Composite.Rome: Forum Romanum and other Imperial Forums, Enclosure and manipulation of space: Pantheon – Public buildings: Colloseum, Circus Maximus, Thermae of Caraculla. TOTAL : 45 PERIODS  REQUIRED READINGS  1. Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, CBS Publications (Indian Edition),1999.  2. Spiro Kostof – A History of Architecture – Setting and Rituals, Oxford University Press,  London, 1985. 3. Leland M Roth; Understanding Architecture: Its elements, history and meaning;  Craftsman House; 1994.3 REFERENCES  1. Pier Luigi Nervi, General Editor – History of World Architecture – Series, Harry N.  Abrams, Inc. Pub., New York, 1972. 2. Lloyd S. and Muller H.W., History of World Architecture – Series, Faber and Faber Ltd.,  London, 1986. 3. Gosta, E. Samdstrp, Man the Builder, Mc.Graw Hill Book Company, New York, 1970. 4. Webb and Schaeffer; Western Civilisation Volume I; VNR: NY: 1962. 5. Vincent Scully: Architecture; Architecture – The Natural and the Man Made : Harper  Collins Pub: 1991.

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