College of Environmental Design
Department of Architecture, UC
Berkeley
Architecture Slide Library
Welcome
Architecture 170
Check this Web Site before the final exam
for the secret answers to all essay questions.
. . . just kidding. Honestly, this is a resource to allow students access to lecture notes they are missing as well as images of monuments and locations mentioned in the class.
WARNING: Not all images shown in lecture are accessible with this Web Site. This is a study "aid" only. Students are responsible for all photoboards on the third floor of Wurster Hall.
Links to individual lectures for Architecture 170A, Fall 1996:
Megaliths: Monumental Stone Architecture of Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe Aug., 29.
The Beginnings of Urban Civilization Sep., 3.
Old Kingdom Beginnings of Egyptian Architecture: Mortuary Architecture. Sep., 5.
Architecture Technology, and Urbanism in Ancient Egypt. Sep., 10.. ..
The Beginnings of European Civilization. Sep., 12.
The Greek Temple. Sep., 17.
Greek and Hellenistic Urbanism. Sep., 19.
What is Roman Architecture? Sep., 24.
Roman Spaces. Sep., 26.
Early Christian Architecture. Oct., 1.
Byzantium. Oct., 3.
Connections: Architecture in Flux. Oct., 8.
Sitting on Top of the World. Oct., 10.
Landscape and Lineage in Imerial China. Oct., 22.
East Asian Traditions and Transformations. Oct., 24.
Teotihuacan and Ancient Mesoamerica. Oct., 29.
Mayan Architecture and cities in Mesoamerica. Oct., 31.
Islam: The Invention of a Landscape. Nov., 5.
Islam and Its Sphere. Nov., 7.
"Barbarians" Nov., 12.
European Architecture in the Early Middle Ages. Nov., 19.
The Gothic Cathedral in Northern France. Nov., 21.
Ritual and Tradition in the Medieval Countyside. Nov., 26.
Medieval European Cities. Dec., 3.
The End of ... What? Dec., 5.
ABOUT THIS SITE:
This site, launched in Fall 1995, is one of the first of its kind to complement an architecture history course. The site and image links to SPIRO (Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval database) are intended as a supplement to Architecture 170A: A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism. This class is offered at the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Architecture 170A and 170B are the two semesters of architectural history survey which are required of Berkeley 4-year B.A. Architecture students, and which are also offered to the general student population. The class meets three days per week: Two lectures days with slides, and one discussion section lead by graduate student instructors.
Lectures will generally appear "online" within two weeks of the original lecture date, and will have direct links to the images in the SPIRO database.
In 1995 architecture student Casto Vocal created the original 170 Home Page. Casto recently began working in the computer software industry.
I would like to thank Maryly Snow, the Architecture Department Slide Librarian for her patience and support. In many ways these history Web pages are a result of more than a decade of Maryly Snow's work with creating a digital image database. Thanks for teaching history with such a critical flare goes to the course instructor, Professor Dell Upton. Also many thanks to Steven Brooks and Claire Dannenbaum of the Slide Library. Lastly, thanks to Randy Ballew of the Museum Information Project for all of his cooperation and assistance in connecting us to 30 gigabytes of images via SPIRO.
All images in this homepage study guide are protected by the 1976 Copyright Act. Downloading, copying, printing, or altering the images is a violation of digital permission agreements that permit electronic display as well as the 1976 Copyright Act.
-Peter
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Peter Montgomery
Department of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
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