Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Ballantyne ARCHITECTURE A Very Short Introduction

To Di Leitch

List of illustrations

1    AT&T Building, New York (1978–80); architect: Philip Johnson (born 1906)

© T. Brubaker/Edifice

2    Traditional cottage, uncertain date, but pre-20th century; no architect

Hulton Archive

3    Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England (1815–21); architect: John Nash (1752–1835)

© A. F. Kersting

4    Great Pyramid of Khufu, Giza, near Cairo, Egypt (2723–2563 BC); architect: unknown

© Richard T. Nowitz/Corbis

5    Palace of Westminster, London, England (1836–68); architect: Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860) with A. W. N. Pugin (1812–52)

© Jeremy Horner/Corbis

6    Chandigarh, Punjab, India (1950–65); architect: Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

© Chris Hellier/Corbis

7    The Parthenon, Athens, Greece (447–436 BC); architects: Ictinus and Callicrates working with the sculptor Phidias

© Michael Holford

8    Cathedral of St Etienne, Bourges, France (begun 1190)

© Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis

9    Schröder house, Utrecht, Netherlands (1924); architect: Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964)

Centraal Museum, Utrecht

10    Falling Water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1936–9); architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)

© Chicago Historical Society

11    Wieskirche, Steinhausen, Bavaria, Germany (1745–54); architect: Dominikus Zimmerman (1681–1766)

© A. F. Kersting

12    Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia (1796–1808); architect: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1836)

© R. Lautman/Monticello

13    Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France (AD 1–10); architect: unknown

© A. F. Kersting

14    The Pantheon, Rome, Italy (AD 118–25); architect: anonymous, but worked under the direction of the Emperor Hadrian

Archivi Alinari, Florence

15    Villa Capra, Vicenza, Italy (1569); architect: Andrea Palladio (1508–80)

Archivi Alinari, Florence

16    Chiswick Villa, London, England (1725); architect: Lord Burlington (1694–1753)

© A. F. Kersting

17    Model of Temple of Juno Sospita, Lanuvium — Etruscan temple, according to Vitruvius (5th century BC)

© David Lees/Corbis

18    Seagram Building, Manhattan, New York City (1954–8); architects: Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) and Philip Johnson (born 1906)

© Bettmann/Corbis

19    Opera House, Sydney, Australia (1957–73); architect: Jorn Utson (born 1918)

© Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis

20    Chicago Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois (1923–5); architects: John Mead Howells (1868–1959) and Raymond Hood (1881–1934)

Underwood & Underwood/Corbis

21    Métro entrance surrounds, Paris, France (1899–1905); architect: Hector Guimard (1867–1942)

© Philippa Lewis/Edifice

22    Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (begun 1882); architect: Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926)

© A. F. Kersting

23    Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India (1630–53); architect: Ustad ‘Isa (dates unknown)

© A. F. Kersting

24    Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (1997); architect: Frank Gehry (born 1929)

Erika Barahona Ede/© FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao

25    Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1977); architects: Renzo Piano (born 1937) and Richard Rogers (born 1933)

© Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis

Introduction

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said, ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand

Half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias, 1818)