ANNA UNIVERSITY B.ARCH 1ST SEMESTER SYLLABUS
REGULATION 2013
AR6101 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE - I
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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