THE ORIGINS
- First humanoids in centra Africa.
- No shelter nor fire
- moved northwards
- HOMO HABILIS
- HOMO ERECTUS
- fire and shelter
- HUTS: beginning of architecture
- fireplace=congregation
- HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS
- caverns
- community-orientated
- symbolism
- burials
- HOMO SAPIENS
- sculptures
- huts covered with skin and bones
- large families
- permanent housing
- Neolithic city
- defensive wall
- no streets
- adobe and wood
hole in the ceiling
PROTOHISTORY
- cities between Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia)
- writing and pottery
- adobe and brick
- ZIGGURATS
- Summerian temples to be closer to gods
- Ur-Nammu: new religous building
- mortuary chambre
EGYPTIANS
- Nile River+ Sun= axes
- TEMPLES: main building, gods’house
- continuity &order
- PYRAMIDS: veneration of life, IMHOTEPH (mastaba-stepped pyramid)
GREEKS
- foundation western culture
- balance
- honour gods
- POLIS: grid-based,Agora, community
- TEMPLES: main building, great facades,technical perfection,harmony
- THEATERS&STADIUMS: open-air,excellent acoustic, landscape
- HOUSING: hardly interior space, central peristyle
THE ROMANS
- spread their culture
- grandiose scale
- concrete
- great engineering works
- CIVILWORK: sewage, aqueducts, bridges, walls. Commemorative buildings
- PUBLIC BUILDINGS: thermal baths, theatres, circus, basilica, amphitheatres
- CITIES: orthogonal, Greek colonies, forum, (basilica)-CARDO & DECUMANUS
- RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS: naturalism, vitality, TUSCAN, Etruscans (arches and vaults) PANTHEON
- HOUSING: DOMUS (rich, facilities, decoration) INSULAE (plebeians, low quality,)
