greatarcharoundtheworld

The Great Pyramids: pyramid tomb monument, bearing masonry (cut stone), -2600 to -2480, El Giza, Egypt.

• Site Plan Drawing

Piazza of San Marco (Saint Mark’s): stone masonry, Italian Rennaisance (1400), Venezia (Venice), Italy

* Three-sided enclosure- the Piazza S. Marco proper, held the

offices of the procurators.

Dome of the Rock (Islamic temple): Unknown Architect, bearing masonry, 684 AD, Jerusalem, Israel.

Casa Batllo (apartment building remodel): Antonio

Gaudi, 1905 to 1907, concrete, Barcelona, Spain.

• Organic Architecture

Taj Mahal: Emperor Shah Jahan, Islamic tomb, bearing masonry, inlaid marble, 1630 to 1653 , India.

Haghia Sophia: Isidoros and Anthemios, at Istanbul, Turkey, 532 to 537, bearing masonry .

• Interior of Haghia Sophia: A tremendous domed space, revealing arches and arched collonades.

FYI: Haghia Sophia has withstood earthquakes up to .7 on the rictor scale for

thousands of years. Architectural genius using soft mortar and thin walls

that were able to flex.

Taihe Dian: Unknown Architect, wood timber with tile roofs, 1627, Forbidden city, Bejing, China,

  Air Force Academy Chapel: Walter Netsch, SOM, Expressionist Modern, 1956 to 1962, Colorado Springs.

Centre de Pompidou(modern art museum ): Rogers and Piano, high-tech steel and glass at Paris, France, 1972 to 1976.

• Massive structural expressionist cast exoskeleton, "exterior" escalators enclosed in transparent tube.

Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright,

reinforced concrete stone, Ohiopyle, (Bear Run), Pennsylvania, 1934, 1938, 1948.

"...[Wright] sends out free-floating platforms audaciously over a small waterfall and anchors them in the

natural rock. Something of the prairie house is here still; and we

might also detect a grudging recognition of the International Style in the interlocking geometry of the

planes and the flat, textureless surface of the main shelves. But the

house is thoroughly fused with its site and, inside, the rough stone

walls and the flagged floors are of an elemental ruggedness."

Sainte Chapelle: Louis IX, king of France, Rayonnant (French

Gothic) 1246-48, Paris, France.

FYI: “Windows are a divine feature, if utilized properly will

take your breath away”.

the (Rayonnant) masonry structure of the churches was reduced to a tenuous skeletal

system supporting vast expanses of traceried glass

The word Rayonnant itself refers to the radiating stone spokes of

the enormous rose windows of the

cathedrals.