HOUSES AND HOMES THROUGH HISTORY

THE CELTIC HOUSE

ROMAN HOUSES IN BRITAIN

Reconstruction

Reconstruction Reconstruction

ANGLO-SAXON HOUSES

the HALL

THE VIKINGS’ HOUSE

Tudor’s architecture

Houses

Hardwick Hall, the great Elizabethan mansion in Derbyshire with huge windows on all sides, was laughed at the time for being 'more glass than walls'.

St. Paul’s Cathedral: the Seat of Bishop or London Christopher Wren

Greenwich Hospital: Sir Christopher Wren, 1694

GEORGIAN STYLE HOUSE

A Georgian house in Salisbury

Bath

Dublin Castle's Georgian Upper Castle Yard The main body of the Castle was rebuilt along Georgian lines following a disastrous fire in the late seventeenth century

VICTORIAN AGE ARCHITECTUREGothic revival style:

Pointed windows with decorative tracery Grouped chimneys Pinnacles Battlements and shaped parapets Leaded glass Quatrefoil and clover-shaped windows Oriel windows Asymmetrical floor plan

Battlements (crenellations)

Parapets: A parapet is a low wall projecting from the edge of a platform, terrace, or roof. Parapets may rise above the cornice of a building or form the upper portion of a defensive wall on a castle.

A quatrefoil window is a round window which is composed of four equal lobes, like a four-petaled flower. The quatrefoil pattern is common in Moorish and gothic architecture.

An oriel window projects from the wall and does not extend to the ground. Oriel windows originated as a form of porch. They are often supported by brackets or corbels.

corbel: an architectural bracket or block projecting from a wall and supporting (or appearing to support) a ceiling, beam, or shelf. A corbel can be made of wood, plaster, marble, or other materials.

Manchester Town Hall

Wood-framed Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic) - America's dominant style in the mid-1800s.

Steeply pitched roof Steep cross-gables (the triangle formed by a sloping roof. A

building may be front-gabled or side-gabled. The house shown here is cross-gabled -- It has a gabled wing. Porches and dormers may also be gabled)

Windows with pointed arches Vertical board and batten siding One-story porch, (also called vergeboards - hang from the

projecting end of a roof. Bargeboards are often elaborately carved and ornamented)

scrolled ornaments, lacy bargeboards, "gingerbread" trim,

Victorian Villa

University of Birmingham

The Palace of Westminster: Victorian gothic completed in 1870. Designed by Sir Charles Barry and August Pugin

XXth CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Lloyd's Building, City of London: Richard Rogers. Late 20th century

Barbican Arts Centre and lakeside terrace

Liverpool Street Station

Platform at Liverpool Station

Cauchetiere, Montreal

Seagram Building Plaza

Sonny Building