Table of Contents | Quick Index: | Prehistoric | Roman | Romanesque | Gothic |15th century | 16th century |17th century| 18th century| 19th century | 20th century | Belgian Architecture | American Architecture | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page | Searchthe Fine Arts pages

Table of Contents

Prehistoric
• Stonehenge
Greek
• The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
Roman
• Maison Carree, Nimes
• Arena, Nimes
• Pont du Gard, Nimes
Romanesque Churches
• St. Sernin, Toulouse
• Vezelay
• Moissac
• Souillac
• Autun
• Albi
• Poitiers
Gothic Churches
• Laon
• Paris
• Chartres
• Amiens
• Bourges, St. Etienne
• Ste. Chapelle
• Cologne
• St. Bavo's (Sint Baaf), Ghent. 1290-1310; 1400s-1554.
Rural Gothic
Barn, Abbey of ter Doest, Lissewege, near Bruges. 1275-1300.
Medieval Fortifications
• The Gravensteen, Ghent, 9th-14th centuries, largely 1180-1200.
• Castles in Belgium, other
• Aigues-Mortes, France
• Carcassonne, France
• Pierrefonds, France
Rural architecture
Open air museum of rural architecture, Bokrijk
15th century
Half-timbered houses at Troyes, Rouen, Bourges
16th century
• Palace at Fontainebleau
17th century
• Rubens' Houses in Belgium
• Rembrandt's House in Amsterdam
• Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Antwerp, 1615-23. P. Huyssens, S.J., & P.P. Rubens
• Vaux-le-Vicomte, Chateau
• Versailles
18th century
• Belvedere Palace, Vienna, 1721-22
• Karlskirche, Vienna, 1716-33
• Versailles - 18th c. additions
• Pagoda, Kew Gardens, near London, 1761-2
• Soane Museum, London, 1812
19th century
• Greek Revival in Britain and Scotland
• High Victorian Gothic in England
• Second Empire Baroque: New Louvre, Paris, 1852-57
• Eiffel Tower, Paris - Gustave Eifel, architect
• World's Fair, Paris, 1900
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Glasgow School of Art, 1897-99; 1907-09
• Vienna Secession (J.M. Olbrich)
20th century
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• LeCorbusier -- Villa Savoye, 1929
• LeCorbusier -- Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp 1950-54
• Rietveld - the Schroder-Schrader House, 1925
• WW1 Memorials - OLV Hoekje, Dodengang,near Dijksmuide, Belgium
• Sir Edward Lutyens: Monument to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, France, 1932
• I.M. Pei
• Pompidou Center, Paris, 1971-77

Castles
The Gravensteen, Ghent, 9th-14th centuries, largely 1180-1200.

Steen, Antwerp, 1250 ff.

Other Castles: Beersel, Vorselaer, Veves

Cities in Belgium
Bruges - excellently preserved late medieval architecture

Damme - former port of Bruges

Ghent - rich range of medieval architecture

Antwerp - Gothic and Baroque masterpieces

Brussels - Grand Place and Art NouveauTown Halls

Town Halls - Aalst (Alost), Oudenaard (Audenarde)
see also: Antwerp, Damme, Ghent
See Also -- Digital Archive of American Architecture

Architecture links

Other Art and Architecture Web Links

Digital Archive of American Architecture

Boston College Fine Arts Department Home Page

Boston College
Jeffery Howe, 1997