Terra Amata

Lascaux Cave paintings

Gobekli Tepe

Catalhoyuk in Turkey

Catalhoyuk in Turkey

North American tipi

Corbeled stone roof in Puglia, Italy

A classic dolmen

Cairn in Newgrange, Ireland

Cairn in Newgrange, Ireland

Cairn in Newgrange, Ireland

Hagar Qim, Malta

Stonehenge, England

Stonehenge, England

Laugier's frontispiece for his book Essay on Architecture

Cuneiform cones

White Temple of Anu in Uruk

Ziggurat of Ur

Ziggurat of Ur

Lower and Upper Egypt

Sneferu's Bent Pyramid

A mastaba

Zoser's pyramid at Saqqara

Plan of Zoser's pyramid

Crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt

Plateau of Giza with the location of the three main pyramids

Sheathing on a pyramid

Pyramids of Giza

Temple of Karnak

Temple of Karnak

Temple of Karnak

Temple of Karnak

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Bust of Hatshepsut

Lion Gate at Mycenae

The guardian shedu at Dur-Sharrukin

Sargon's palace at Dur-Sharrukin

New Babylon

New Babylon

Persepolis

Persepolis

Labyrinth of Knossos

Labyrinth of Knossos

A stoa

A Greek theater type

A tholos type

Paestum

Paestum

Greek temple plans

The agora of Athens

The propylea of the Acropolis

Classical orders

Classical orders

Classical entablatures

Construction diagram

Agora superimosed onto a map of the Acropolis

Plan of the Acropolis

The caryatids of the Erechtheion

Mausolus's tomb in Halicarnassus

Acropolis of Pergamon

Rhodes

The hills of Rome

The Roman city

The Roman theater

The Roman bath in Bath, England

Baths of Diocletian

Diagram of a domus

The atrium

The Temple of Vesta

Forums of Julius Caesar and Augustus

Maison Carree

Altar of Ara Pacis

Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture

Trajan's Column

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Tomb

Hadrian's Villa

The Pantheon

 
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