Midterm Buildings - ARC 141 Theory I - Syracuse University

Relevance of building added to some important cards, first 23 most likely to be on the test in my opinion. Good luck! Updated 10/7/25

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln, England

Anonymous Masons

1088

Essay Relevance - Pevsner’s view on architecture

The Basilica of Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, France

Anonymous Masons and Abbot Suger

1144

Essay Relevance - Suget’s Anagogical Method

The Pantheon

Rome, Italy

Unknown

125

Essay Relevance - Vitruvius’s Ten Books, Vitruvius’s Three Points, firmitas, utilitas, venustas, top down, built off imperial wealth, foundation for later architecture.

Temple of Jupiter

Baalbek, Lebanon

Unknown

150-250

Essay Relevance - Grandiosity, what is architecture

Bianjing City Gate

Bianjing, China

Unknown

1100's

Essay Relevance - Fashi’s Lie Jie for the Song Dynasty building standards

Fujian Tulou

Xiayang Township, China

Unknown

1419

Essay Relevance - Fashi’s Lie Jie for the Song Dynasty building standards

Sant’Andrea in Mantua

Mantua, Italy

Leon Battista Alberti

1470

Essay Relevance - Alberti’s lineaments, Renaissance, humanism

Villa Capra "La Rotunda"

Near Vicenza, Italy

Andrea Palladio

1570

Essay Relevance - Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture, Palladianism, humanism

The Blue Mosque

Istanbul, Turkey

Sultan Mehmed Aga

1616

Essay Relevance - Ca’afer Efendi, Islamic and Byzantine

Santa Maria Novella

Florence, Italy

Leon Battista Alberti

1448-1470

Essay Relevance - Alberti’s Lineaments, Renaissance, humanism

Nakagin Capsule Tower

Tokyo, Japan

Kisho Kurokawa

1972

Essay Relevance - Metabolist movement, organic creationism as opposed to modernist machine based creationism.

Villa Savoye

Poissy, France

Le Corbusier

1929

Essay Relevance - Le Corbusier’s Five points of architecture, pilotis, free design ground plan, free design of facade, horizontal window, roof garden, exemplary of the modernist movement

Barcelona Pavillion

Barcelona, Spain

Mies van der Rohe

1929

Essay Relevance - Less is more, Modernism

Villa Muller

Prague, Czechia

Adolf Loos

1930

Essay Relevance - Modernism, functionalism, Raumplan, Loos’s view on cultural evolution

House for Josephine Baker

Unbuilt

Adolf Loos

1927-1928

Essay Relevance - Loos’s Ornament and Crime, Racism tied to modernism

Azurest South

Virginia, USA

Amaza Lee Meredith

1938

Essay Relevance - Kendi’s How to be an Anti-Racist, Cheng’s Structural Racism in Modern Architectural Theory, Anti-racist architecture

East Village

New York City, USA

1960s

Essay Relevance - Bottom Up, Jacobs vs Moses

Greenwich Village

New York City, USA

1950s

Essay Relevance - Bottom Up, Jacobs vs Moses

Planned Lower Manhattan Expressway

New York City, USA

Robert Moses

1967

Essay Relevance - Top Down, Jacobs vs Moses, tabula rasa

Maison Dom-Ino

Unbuilt

Le Corbusier

1914-1915

Essay Relevance - Le Corbusier’s Five points of architecture

Li Jie for the Song Dynasty

Yingzao Fashi

1065-1103

Plan Obus

Algiers, Algeria

Le Corbusier

1932-1942

Essay Relevance - Top Down, creative destruction, Modernism, Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, dual city hypothesis

Pruitt-Igoe

St. Louis, USA

Minoru Yamasaki

1954-1972

Caribbean Hut

Unbuilt

Gottfried Semper

1851

Everson Museum

Syracuse, USA

I.M. Pei

1962-1968

Highschool #9

Los Angeles, USA

Coop Himmelbau

2008

Harbin Opera House

Harbin, China

MAD Architects

2015

Basilica at Fano

Fano, Italy

Vitruvius

19 BCE

Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem

Umayyad Caliph, Raja ibn Haywa and Yazid Ibn Sallam

688-692

Dome of Santa Maria del Foire

Florence, Italy

Filippo Brunelleschi

1436

Tempietto

Rome, Italy

Donato Bramante

1502

Chiswick House

Chiswick, London, UK

Lord Burlington

1729

Monticello

Near Charlottesville, USA

Thomas Jefferson

1772

Hendricks Chapel

Syracuse, USA

James Russell Pope and Dwight James Baum

1929

Jefferson Memorial

Washington, USA

James Russell Pope

1939

Federal Center

Chicago, USA

Mies van der Rohe

1974

Levittown Houses

Levittown, USA

William Levitt

1947-1951

Brasilia

Brazil

Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer

1960

Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper

Unbuilt, Berlin, Germany

Mies van der Rohe

1921