History
Architectural Lessons
PART II
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Pre-Historic
Architecture
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Early Dwelling
Shift from nomadic, hunter-gatherer system
to a combination of farming and hunting
Domestication of animals and plants
Created Societies of villages near caves or
along shores and streams
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Rock Caves
Earliest form of human settlement
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Lascaux Cave
Lascaux, France
A cave in France
containing wall
paintings and
engraving of
Paleolithic
humans thought
to date from c.
13,000-8,500
BCE
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Built Shelter
Primitive lifestyle was nomadic
Temporary shelter was designed in direct
response to climate, local materials, and
hunting patterns
Built with limited investment in time and
energy
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Tipi/Teepee
A portable Indian
shelter
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Beehive Hut
A clochán (plural
clocháin) or beehive hut
is a dry-stone hut with a
corbelled roof,
commonly associated
with the south-western
Irish seaboard.
A clochán on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland
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Trullo
A traditional
rendered stone
dwelling in
Apulia, Southern
Italy, in which
square
chambers are
roofed with
conical vaulted
roofs.
Apulian dry stone hut
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Wigwam
An American-
Indian dwelling,
usually of round
or oval shaped,
formed of poles
overlaid with
bark, rush mats,
animal skins.
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Hogan
A Navaho Indian
dwelling
constructed
usually of earth
and logs and
covered with
mud
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Igloo
An Eskimo
house, usually
built of blocks of
hard snow or ice
in the shape of a
dome or when
permanent, of
sod, wood, or
stone.
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Religious Structures
Villages are connected by shared mortuary
and goddess ritual centers
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Megaliths
Ancient stone monuments
After people started sharing community life, they
began turning their attention to architecture that
celebrated the spiritual and the sacred.
Their tombs and temples imitated nature in gigantic
forms resembling mountains and other landscape
formations.
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Menhir
Monolith: A prehistoric monument consisting of an
upright stone, usually standing alone but sometimes
aligned with others in parallel rows.
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Kerloas Menhir
Brittany, France
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Dolmen
From the word daul, a table, and maen, a stone;
A prehistoric stone monument consisting of two or
more large upright stones supporting a horizontal
stone slab or capstone, and usually regarded as a
tomb.
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Kilcloooney
County Donegal,
Ireland
It utilizes trabeation,
the most basic
construction system
for structures.
It consist of vertical
supports called
posts that hold up
horizontal elements
called lintels
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Dysse
Denmark
Ubberup Runddysse
is a Neolithic burial
mound in Denmark,
featuring a circular
chamber with a
capstone and
surrounding stones.
Site in Holbæk Denmark
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Goindol
Gochang, South Korea
The Gochang, Hwasun
and Ganghwa Dolmen
Sites are the location
of hundreds of stone
dolmen in Korea. The
sites were designated
as a World Heritage
Site by UNESCO in
2000.
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Variations
Cove Trilithon
Three standing
stones, two on the
sides and one at
the back
A structure
consisting of two
upright stones and
supporting lintel
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Cromlech
A circular arrangement of megaliths enclosing a
dolmen or burial mound
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Stone Circle
Avebury, England
These stone circles were
associated with burials,
others with cremation
They also worked as
celestial observatories that
were meant to follow the
movements of the moon and
stars, as would have been
typical for early agrarian-
based societies.
Avebury Stone Circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, England
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Stone Henge
Salisbury Plain in Witshire,
England
A megalithic monument
consisting of four concentric
rings of trilithon and
menhirs centered around an
altar stone.
It is believed to have been
used by a sun cult or for
astronomical observations
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A Solstice Celebration at the Stonehenge
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Tumulus
An artificial mound of earth or stone, especially over
an ancient grave. Also called barrow.
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Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia at Cerveteri
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Early Cities
Ice age to the Neolithic Age; the earth’s climate
warmed up
As settlements became more permanent, hunting
started farming communities
New architecture was also developed to represent
communal and spiritual values
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Jericho
One of the world’s oldest continually-inhabited city
A hilltop city; citizens lived in stone houses with plaster floors
surrounded by high walls and towes
Aerial view showing the ruins
of Tell es-Sultan, Jordan
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Khirokitia
Cyprus
One of the earliest
Neolithic Village
Utilized a complex
architectural
system built
according to a
preconceived plan,
suggesting a
structured
organisation
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Khirokitia
Partial modern-day reconstruction of Khirokitia, Cyprus
Houses, built in limestone, had a circular plan, the exterior
diameter of which varied from about 2-9 meters
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Catal Huyuk
largest and most well-preserved Neolithic village
consisted of rectangular flat-roofed houses packed together into
a single architectural mass
no streets or passageways
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Catal Huyuk Reconstruction
North and east walls of
shrine VI.A.8. Third phase
North and west walls of
shrine VI.A.10 restored
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Catal Huyuk Reconstruction

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