03197cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000400012624500360016626400510020230000470025333600260030033700260032633800360035250000380038850000310042650801880045752020110064553400670265665300280272385600770275185600430282876489UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251887utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a11009098  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aNA1 aTuckerman, Arthur Lyman,d1861-189212aA short history of architecture 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWith illustrations by the author.  aRelease date is 2025-07-12  aCharlene Taylor, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"A short history of architecture" by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman is a concise architectural history written in the late 19th century. It sketches the origins, principles, and hallmark features of major building traditions across cultures—moving from prehistoric stoneworks through Egypt, Asia, Greece, Rome, and on to medieval and Renaissance Europe—aimed at general readers and students, with minimal technical jargon.  The beginning of this volume sets its purpose: to give the main facts of architectural development plainly, defining architecture as the union of utility and beauty, rooted in construction and decoration, and outlining the periods to be covered. It then surveys early evidence—Celtic megaliths (menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs like Stonehenge) as the first clear post‑and‑lintel thinking—and turns to Egypt’s tombs and temples (the Gizeh pyramids, the Sphinx, mastabahs and Beni Hassan “proto‑Doric” columns, Theban rock tombs, Karnak’s hypostyle hall, and Nubian rock temples), praising technical mastery while noting a rigid conventionality. Next come India’s stupas, rock‑cut caves, and monolithic temples (Ellora’s Kylas) and pagodas; China’s largely wooden tradition, great bridges, taas towers, and the Great Wall; and Mesopotamia–Persia: Assyrian palaces with winged bulls, early true arches and glazed bricks, staged temple‑towers (ziggurats), and Persepolis with its bull‑headed columns, followed by Sassanian elliptical vaults. The narrative briefly treats the Temple of Jerusalem and Lycian tombs that bridge wood and stone, then shifts to Greece—from Cyclopean Tiryns and Mycenae to the codified Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders and the monuments of the Athenian Acropolis (Propylæa, Parthenon, Erechtheion’s caryatids, Temple of Nike), with notes on theatres, houses, and colonial temples—before opening the section on Etruria and Rome’s adaptation of Greek orders to the arch and vault. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887  aArchitecture -- History4 uhttps://archive.org/details/39002011214120.med.yale.edu/page/n9/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76489