Architecture (from Greek word ἀρχιτεκτονική - arkhitektonike) is the art and science of constructing the built environment and is often an indication of a civilization's ideas and beliefs at a given time.


Buildings

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Building types

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  1. House
  2. Museum
  3. Gallery
  4. Skyscraper
  5. Airport
  6. Railway station
  7. Shopping mall
  8. Apartment
  9. Office
  10. Library
  11. School
  12. Hospital

Building components

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  1. Building components
  2. Foundation (engineering)
  3. Floor
  4. Wall
  5. Envelope (architectural)
  6. Curtain wall
  7. Window
  8. Roof
  9. Arch
  10. Dome
  11. Tower
  12. Vault (architecture)
    1. Rib vault quadripartite and sexpartite
      1. Lierne (vault)
      2. Fan vault
    2. Barrel vault
    3. Groin vault
    4. Shell vault
  13. Architectural order corinthian, doric ionic etc. rather than Architectural ordering principles
    1. Corinthian order
    2. Ionic order
    3. Doric order
    4. Tuscan order
    5. Composite order
  14. Entablature
  15. Plinth

Planning and urban design

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  1. Land use planning
  2. Urban design

Structures

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  1. Aswan Dam
  2. Bridge
  3. Canal
  4. Dam
  5. Eiffel Tower

Movements and styles

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  1. Architectural revivalism
  2. Battle of the Styles
  3. Modernism (architecture)
  4. Classical architecture
  5. Baroque architecture
  6. Gothic architecture
  7. Gothic revival architecture - may include the 'gothic survival'
  8. Constructivist architecture
  9. Expressionist architecture
  10. De Stijl
  11. Mannerist architecture
  12. Renaissance architecture

Architectural profession

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  1. Architect
  2. Royal Institute of British Architects
  3. American institute of architects

Practice and management

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  1. Architectural practice
  2. Brief (architecture)
  3. Architectural communication
    1. Architectural plan
    2. Architectural drawing
    3. Architectural model

Education

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  1. Architectural education
  2. Architectural educator
  3. Bauhaus
  4. Vkhutemas
  5. École des Beaux-Arts
  6. Architectural Association

Awards, Prizes and publications

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  1. Pritzker Prize
  2. Stirling Prize
  3. Aga Khan Award for Architecture
  4. Architects Journal
  5. Learning from Las Vegas
  6. Vers une architecture
  7. De architectura
  8. I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
  9. The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Project management and cost control

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  1. Architectural design process
  2. Cost planning
  3. Cost control
  4. Elemental cost planning
  5. Critical path analysis
  6. RIBA plan of work

Construction

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  1. Construction
    1. Construction science and technology
      1. Architectural acoustics
      2. Thermal analysis (architectural)
      3. Material science (architectural)
      4. Fire engineering
      5. Structural engineering
      6. Green building design - for want of a better title for 'environmental/green/eco-sensitive/sustainable design.
      7. Building environmental science heating, air con etc.
        1. Building services engineering
      8. Building defects
        1. Dry rot
        2. Wet rot
        3. Subsidence
        4. Settlement (structural)
        5. Death watch beetle
        6. Damp (structural)
      9. Piped services
      10. Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
  2. Construction systems
  3. Construction trades

Architectural law and regulation

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  1. Building code
  2. Construction contract
    1. Arbitration (architectural)
  3. Collateral Warranty
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  1. Urban design
  2. Land use planning
  3. Civil engineering
  4. Structural engineering
  5. Environmental engineering
  6. Service engineering
  7. Landscape architecture
  8. Naval architecture

Specific buildings

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Ancient

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  1. Colosseum
  2. Great Pyramid of Giza
  3. Hagia Sophia
  4. Machu Picchu
  5. Parthenon
  6. Pantheon, Rome
  7. Stonehenge

Historic

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  1. Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris
  2. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence "The Duomo"
  3. Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome
  4. Crystal Palace
  5. Forbidden City, Beijing
  6. Leaning Tower of Pisa
  7. Palace of Westminster
  8. Taj Mahal
  9. Villa Almerico-Capra (A.K.A. La Rotonda, Villa Rotunda, Villa La Rotonda, and Villa Almerico - by Palladio)

Modern

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  1. Bauhaus, Dessau - the building rather than the 'school'
  2. Villa Savoye
  3. Barcelona pavilion
  4. Casa Mila, Barcelona
  5. Sagrada Familia
  6. Chrysler Building, New York
  7. Farnsworth house
  8. Fallingwater, Pennsylvania
  9. Einstein Tower
  10. Centre Georges Pompidou
  11. Robie House
  12. Grand Central Station, New York
  13. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  14. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
  15. Johnson Wax Building, Wisconsin
  16. Notre Dame du Haut
  17. Seagram building, New York
  18. Empire State Building
  19. Sears Tower
  20. Sydney Opera House
  21. World Trade Center, New York

Specific Architects

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  1. Vitruvius
  2. Le Corbusier
  3. Frank Lloyd Wright
  4. Walter Gropius
  5. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  6. Alvar Aalto
  7. Andrea Palladio
  8. Filippo Brunelleschi
  9. Gottfried Semper
  10. John Soane
  11. John Vanbrugh
  12. Christopher Wren
  13. A.W.N. Pugin
  14. Inigo Jones
  15. Renzo Piano
  16. Frank Gehry
  17. Zaha Hadid
  18. Daniel Libeskind
  19. Alison and Peter Smithson
  20. Ernő Goldfinger
  21. László Moholy-Nagy
  22. Louis Kahn
  23. Claude Nicolas Ledoux
  24. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
  25. El Lissitzky
  26. Antonio Sant'Elia
  27. Antonio Gaudi
  28. Victor Horta
  29. Adolf Loos
  30. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  31. Imhotep
  32. Mario Botta
  33. Oscar Niemeyer

Core articles

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  1. Architect (10)
  2. Architectural theory (10)
  3. History of architecture (10) - Chronological
  4. Planning and urban design (10)
  5. Construction (10)
  6. Architectural practice (5)
  7. Construction contract (5)
  8. Building components (5)
  9. Modernism (architecture) (5)
  10. Gothic architecture (5)
  11. Architectural history (5) - the academic discipline
  12. Construction science and technology (5)
  13. Architectural design process(5)
  14. Le Corbusier (5)
  15. Frank Lloyd Wright (5)
  16. Cost planning (2)
  17. Andrea Palladio (2)
  18. Architectural practice (2)
  19. Construction contract (2)
  20. Filippo Brunelleschi (2)
  21. Colosseum (2)
  22. Great Pyramid of Giza (2)
  23. Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris (2)
  24. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence "The Duomo" (2)
  25. Angkor Wat (2)
  26. Villa Savoye (2)
  27. Fallingwater, Pennsylvania (2)
  28. Notre Dame du Haut (2)
  29. Vault (architectural) (2)
  30. Classicism (architecture) (2)
  31. Constructivist architecture (2)
  32. Green architecture (2)
  33. Renaissance architecture (2)
  34. Skyscraper
  35. Arch
  36. Dome
  37. Seagram building, New York
  38. Vitruvius
  39. Walter Gropius
  40. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  41. Louis Kahn
  42. Frank Gehry
  43. Zaha Hadid
  44. Rem Koolhaas
  45. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
  46. Antonio Sant'Elia
  47. Antonio Gaudi
  48. Hagia Sophia
  49. Machu Picchu
  50. Parthenon
  51. Pantheon, Rome
  52. Stonehenge
  53. Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome
  54. Forbidden City, Beijing
  55. Leaning Tower of Pisa
  56. Ise Shrine
  57. Palace of Westminster
  58. Villa Almerico-Capra (A.K.A. La Rotonda, Villa Rotunda, Villa La Rotonda, and Villa Almerico - by Palladio)
  59. Bauhaus, Dessau - the building rather than the 'school'
  60. Barcelona pavilion
  61. Sagrada Familia
  62. Chrysler Building, New York
  63. Farnsworth house
  64. Einstein Tower
  65. Robbie House
  66. Grand Central Station, New York
  67. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  68. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
  69. Empire State Building
  70. Sydney Opera House
  71. World Trade Center, New York
  72. House
  73. Museum
  74. Gallery
  75. Airport
  76. Railway station
  77. Office
  78. Temple
  79. School
  80. Hospital
  81. Foundation (architectural)
  82. Floor (architectural)
  83. Envelope (architectural)
  84. Wall
  85. Curtain wall
  86. Window
  87. Roof
  88. Tower
  89. Architectural revivalism
  90. The battle of the styles
  91. Baroque architecture
  92. Gothic revival architecture - may include the 'gothic survival'
  93. Bauhaus history and influence of the school
  94. De Stijl
  95. Mannerist architecture
  96. Architectural award
  97. Cost control
  98. Building code
  99. Arbitration (architectural)

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to architecture:

Essence of architecture

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Main article: Architecture

Branches of architecture

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History of architecture

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Main article: History of architecture

General architecture concepts

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Persons influential in the field of architecture

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Architecture scholars

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See also

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References

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