Contents
Building a House
The Pyramid of Djoser
The Temples of Greece
The Parthenon
The Romans
Hagia Sophia
A White Robe of Churches
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Buildings Around the World
The Forbidden City
The Renaissance in Europe
Villa Rotonda
The Taj Mahal
The Baroque in Europe
Vaux-Le-Vicomte
Melk Abbey
Saint Petersburg
Living in the Past
The Crystal Palace
Modern Buildings
The Bauhaus
The United States
The Chrysler Building
The International Style
The Sydney Opera House
The Pompidou Center
The Straw Bale House
Index & Time Line
Glossary
- log cabin
- frame walls
- diagonal braces
- stone wall
- English brickwork
- Flemish brickwork
- common brickwork
- American brickwork
- thatched roof
- slate roof
- clay tile roof
- stilt house
- Inuit igloo
- Sioux tepee
- Ghanaian house with mud decorations
- Bedouin tent
- Musgum hut
- simple stone chimney
- staircase
- early glass window
- Roman underfloor heating
- arch
- bridge
- vault
- wooden truss
- Roman insula
- The Great Fire of London
- steel fram
- Tudor houses
- Georgian townhouses
- Modern high-rise
- barns
- harbor
- windmill
- water mill
- factory
- power plant
- train station
- airport
- Pyramid of Djoser
- chapel
- stone illars
- false doorways
- trench
- outer wall
- crescent-shaped boundary markers
- stone platform
- double throne
- mastabas
- burial shafts
- inner pyramid
- outer pyramid
- Great Pyramids at Giza
- Temple at Luxor
- serdab
- tiled corridors
- festival court
- dummy chapels
- rubble
- Palace Complex of Knossos
- Early Greek stone temple
- Early Greek wooden temple
- grand staircase at Knossos
- The Parthenon
- Doric templepediment
- entablature
- cornice
- triglyphs
- metopes carved with scenes of battles
- architrave
- capital
- tapered
- fluted
- pierced bronze doors
- stylobate
- base
- acroteria
- naos
- statue
- two-story colonnade
- Classical orders
- Doric columns
- Ionic columns
- Corinthian columns
- Doric order
- Tuscan order
- mathematical proportions
- treasury
- marble roof tiles
- wooden rafters
- colonnade
- metal cramps
- holy water
- The Colosseum
- The Pantheon
- interior
- Hagia Sophia
- imperial entrance
- courtyard
- outer narthex
- inner narthex
- brick walls with concrete core
- semi-circular apse
- semidome
- buttresses
- dome
- ring of windows
- ribs
- access ramp
- upper galleries
- buttresses
- domes
- push back
- half domes
- apse
- pendentives
- synthronon
- ciborium
- silver screen
- plastered outer walls
- metatorion
- Great Church of Cluny
- Notre-Dame Cathedral
- Romanesque cathedrals
- pointed arches
- stained-glass windows
- bells
- Virgin Mary
- Bible
- LAst Judgment
- Saint Anne
- spiral stair
- labyrinth
- nave
- gallery
- outer aisle
- side chapel
- main arcade
- rose window
- pointed Gothic arches
- lead roof
- wooden roof trusses
- stone vault
- clerestory
- transept
- wooden spire
- crossing
- nave
- chancel
- marketplaces
- meeting halls
- guildhalls
- Guildhalls in Ghent
- castles
- moats
- outer walls
- bastions
- barbicans
- towers
- drawbridges
- Gothic cathedral
- Early Gothic lancet window
- window with tracery
- Late Gothic windows
- Angkor Wat
- Palenque
- Mosque of Ibn Tulun
- Kinkaku-ji
- gate
- The Forbidden City
- cantilevers
- joint
- Forth Bridge
- Quebec Bridge
- central ramp
- water creatures
- fish
- coiled dragon
- emperor’s throne
- Imperial throne
- colored gold roof tiles
- richly carved eaves
- wooden columns
- fortune
- bronze cauldrons
- marble platforms
- Renaissance
- Sant’ Andrea
- Tempietto at San Pietro
- Villa Rotondo
- symmetry
- lines of symmetry
- stepped dome
- clay roof tiles
- wooden rafters
- attic story
- bedrooms
- circular balcony
- classical myths
- plain walls
- spiral stairs
- upper level
- plinth
- round hall
- dome
- storerooms
- kitchens
- sculptures
- pediment
- porticoes
- Ionic columns
- piano nobile
- entrance door
- servants’ rooms
- flight of steps
- geometry
- pure beauty
- Taj Mahal
- pattern
- stonemasons
- craftsmanship
- chhatris
- Koran
- black stone inlay
- flower decoration
- main entrance
- spiral stairs
- minaret
- prayer tower
- brick plinth
- white marble
- crypt
- coffins
- false tombs
- jail
- dado
- carved flowers
- precious stones
- open arches
- pishtaqs
- octagonal chamber
- iwan
- arched opening
- marble cladding
- metal cramps
- brick inner dome
- crescent moon
- brick-and-rubble onion dome
- amrud
- empty space
- balcony
- frieze
- The Queen’s House
- Piazza Navona
- Saint Peter’s square
- outer dome
- wooden trusses
- corner pavilion
- pediment
- grand salon
- tiers of steps
- terrace
- stairs
- main rooms
- antechambers
- spiral staircase
- cupola
- inner dome of plaster
- entrance hall
- attic
- servants rooms
- The Royal Abbey
- refectory
- onion domes
- copper
- abbey church
- library
- bookshelves
- terrace
- balcony
- courtyard
- plastered walls
- emperor’s hall
- state apartments
- entrance gate
- inner dome
- cupola
- copper-covered dome
- Shauspielhaus
- The White House
- The Houses of Parliament
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Industrial Revolution
- The Crystal Palace
- railroads
- panel of iron and glass
- cast-iron columns
- cast-iron beams
- semicircular vaults
- cranes
- cradles
- wooden battens
- glaziers
- steam engines
- power saws
- glass roof
- guttering
- drainpipe
- iron truss girders
- iron columns
- truss girders
- ticket booths
- louvers
- steam engines
- agricultural implements
- glass cases
- manufactured goods
- pipe organ
- glass vault
- galleries
- retractable canvas awnings
- The Red House
- entrance canopy
- Paris Metro
- Sagrada Familia
- The Bauhaus
- flat roof
- white wall
- reinforced concrete walls
- reinforced concrete floors
- long strip windows
- laboratory
- technical school
- glass wall
- reinforced concrete frame
- cafeteria terrace
- balcony
- studio
- auditorium
- bathroom
- roof terrace
- workshop building
- administrative offices
- linking corridors
- reinforced concrete
- steel rods
- frames
- floors
- walls
- domes
- reinforced concrete beam
- Johnson Wax Building
- Fallingwater
- The Chrysler Building
- winged hubcap
- eagle
- chevron pattern
- decorative panels
- car wheel pattern
- decorations
- Otis safety elevator
- automatic brake
- spire
- stainless steel pattern
- Eagle’s head decoration
- elevator hall
- cladding
- stainless steel cladding
- stainless steel panels
- Saqqara
- Pyramid of Cheops
- Eiffel Tower
- Empire STate Building
- Willis Tower
- Petronas Twin Towers
- Taipei 101
- Burj Khalifa
- International Style
- Barcelona Pavilion
- Finish Pavilion
- Sydney Opera House
- geodesic dome
- Olympic Stadium
- glass walls
- opera theater
- orchestra pit
- gallery
- restaurant
- dressing rooms
- rehearsal room
- concert hall foyer
- foyer
- stage
- rehearsal room
- offices
- concrete podium
- granite cladding
- concrete ribs
- glue
- interlocking ceramic tiles
- recording studio
- dressing rooms
- concert hall
- revolving stage
- fly tower
- scenery
- Pompidou Center
- machine
- steel columns
- truss girders
- gerberettes
- steel ties
- escalator
- library
- escalators
- glass tubes
- entrance hall
- forum
- cafe
- media room
- fire escape
- art galleries
- viewing gallery
- glass walls
- air pipes
- steel cradles
- ventilation ducts
- cooling towers
- water pipes
- motor rooms
- ventilation system
- enclosed walkway
- service ducts
- electrical switch rooms
- diagonal steel ties
- twisting
- massive steel columns
- The Straw Bale House
- straw-bale wall
- chicken coops
- padded quilt
- insulation
- racks of stones and rubble
- sandbag wall
- recycled railroad ties
- straw bales
- living room
- ventilation tower
- railroad tracks
- green roof
- solar panel
- African houses
- airports
- apartment buildings
- Arabs
- classical arches
- Gothic arches
- Hagia Sophia arches
- pointed arches
- Roman arches
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Athens
- Australia
- Austria
- Barcelona
- barns
- baroque style
- Berlin
- brick buildings
- brickwork
- bridges
- building materials
- cast iron
- castles
- cathedrals
- caves
- central heating
- Chartres Cathedral
- chimneys
- China
- Christianity
- churches
- cities
- classical style
- baroque classical style
- Renaissance classical style
- clay tile roofs
- concrete
- reinforced concrete
- concrete ribs
- department stores
- Egypt
- electricity
- elevators
- factories
- fires
- frame houses
- Germany
- Berlin
- NAzis
- glass
- glass walls
- glass windows
- Gothic style
- Greece
- harbors
- heating
- Hindu architecture
- Incas
- India
- Italian Renaissance
- Japan
- Justinian
- Knossos
- Korea
- lighting
- log cabins
- Great Fire of London
- Saint Paul’s Cathedral
- Louis XIV
- Ludwig II
- Bavaria
- Maya
- Melk Abbey
- Middle Ages
- modern buildings
- William Morris
- mortar
- mosques
- mud bricks
- Mughals
- Muslim buildings
- Muslim patterns
- Nile River
- Ottoman Empire
- pagodas
- palaces
- baroque palaces
- Paris
- Saint-Denis Church
- Pericles
- Peter the Great
- Phidias
- power stations
- railroad stations
- rococo
- Romanesque cathedrals
- Romans
- eastern Roman Empire
- insulae
- Rome
- Chinese buildgs roofs
- domes
- hanging cables as roofs
- skyscrapers
- South America
- Spain
- steel
- stilt houses
- stone
- stone buildings
- stone houses
- stone temples
- Abbot Suger
- Egyptian temples
- Greek temples
- Roman temples
- Teotihuacan
- terraced houses
- tombs
- Egyptian tombs
- Taj Mahal tombs
- towns
- buildings
- houses
- trusses
- Turkey
- modern buildings
- utilities
- Uxmal
- vaults
- Palace of Versailles
- Vitruvius
- water mills
- water supplies
- windmills
- windows
- Gothic windows
- wooden houses
- World War I
- World War II
- places of worship
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Yongle Emperor
Source Citation
Dillon, Patrick. The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press. 2014.