321 test 2 architects - bullet points

Vitruvius

- Roman Architect and engineer

- wrote the De Architectura

- evaluated and organized the built environment

Thomas Jefferson

- established the Northwest Ordinance of 1785

- third president of the US

designed Academical Village at UVA

Hadrian

- Emperor of Rome

- designed his palace in Villa Adriana in Tivoli

Constantine

- Emperor of Rome

- integrate Christian ideals with existing Roman architecture. - heavily influenced the architecture of churches.

Justinian

- Emperor of Byzantine Empire.

- Conducted lots of public aqueducts and bridges

Hannibal

- Carthaginian general and stateman during the Punic Wars. - Led attacks against Rome

- expanding roman military power

- showed need for urban fortification.

Suger

- Abbot of St. Denis.

- Rebuilt the Saint Denis

- established it as a Gothic architectural piece.

- Architecture was influenced both by religion and the state.

Charlemagne

First Holy Roman Emporer
Started the Carolingian Renaissance

Arnolfo di Cambio

- Italian Architect

- led the transition from Gothic to Renaissance styles.

Muhammed

- Muslim prophet

- founder of Islam.

- encouraged religious pilgrimage

- influenced Islamic architecture.

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo

- Italian Renaissance Architect.

Designed the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence

Brunelleschi

- Renaissance architect

- designing the Duomo in Florence.

- Discovered principles of perspective

Alberti

- Italian Renaissance Architect and theorist,

- named the 'universal man'

- shaped the transition from midevil buildings to classic renaissance.

Palladio

- Italian Renaissance Architect.

- Designed palazzi and villas under design principles laid out in his book: the Four Books of Architecture

Giulio Romano

- Painter and Italian Renaissance Architect.

- Pioneered the Mannerist style of architecture

- used dramatic Greek and roman motifs in his designs