Undena Publications, 1978. — 100 p. — (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 8). In this work, I attempt to show the importance of studying together the various elements of man's remains in the archaeological record. This is particularly true in historical archaeology and specifically in urban architecture. The method used here aims at integrating cuneiform sources, art objects, artifacts...
BAR Publishing, 2007. — 234 p. — (BAR International Series 1637). In this work the author explores the pre-historical defensive architecture in Crete by discerning five types of architectural feature: enclosure walls, tower-like structures; 'guard houses' and guardrooms. Before presenting the materials and analyses, the author outlines the history of the research, lists the...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 362 p. — (BAR International Series 3061). This book evaluates the epistemology by which archaeology has translated the architectural record at Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic (6500-5500 BC) sites in central Anatolia into interpretations of social organisation. The first part of the book provides a summary of existing knowledge on the study region,...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 89 p. — (BAR International Series 1467). This book investigates for the first time the complex processes involved with the occurrence and development of Eneolithic and Bronze Age architecture over the extent of Azerbaijan. The study also investigates the important questions left unanswered in the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic literature,...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 445 p. From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet DeLaine’s seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the processes...
Brepols, 2021. — 388 p. — (ARAXES II). Cet ouvrage invite a retracer l'histoire des relations culturelles entre les communautes de Mesopotamie et du Caucase durant le Neolithique et le Chalcolithique par une etude des mecanismes d'innovation et de transmission des connaissances en architecture. Le premier objectif est de caracteriser ces echanges techniques pour determiner si...
Bell and Sons, 1924. — 250 p.
Ранняя архитектура Западной Азии; халдейская, хеттская, ассирийская, персидская; исторический очерк. Исследование архитектуры древнего Ближнего Востока, с акцентом на хеттской архитектуре.
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — 257 p. — (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 8). Proceedings of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, 25–26 April 2016 The study of the semiotics of palaces in the Ancient Near East and Ancient Egypt provides the historian with diverse information as size and type of architecture demonstrate the kind of...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 198 p. This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale constructions, built with large, unwieldy blocks, may have overstretched the (economic) capabilities of communities, leading to their...
BAR Publishing, 1990. — 208 p. — (BAR International Series 558). As early as 1967 S. Yeivin put forward the hypothesis that Mycenaean architecture had influenced some temple buildings in Canaan during the Early Iron Age. He argued that this influence was attested in the plans of the two temples at Beth Shan, Level V, which would have been the first examples of the Longroom...
Brill, 1970. — 752 S. — (Studia Francisci Scholten Memoriae Dicata 3). Eine archäologisch-historische Studie unter Berücksichtigung des westsemitischen Tempelbaus.
Archaeopress, 2020. — 207 p. Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 1, Session XXXII-3 Pre and Protohistoric Stone Architectures: Comparisons of the Social and Technical Contexts Associated to Their Building presents the papers from Session XXXII-3 of the XVIII UISPP Congress (Paris, 4-9 June 2018). This session took place within the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 129 p. — (Arabia Orientalis: Studien zur Archäologie Ostarabiens 4). The Umm an-Nar period (2700-2000 BC) in Eastern Arabia is a time of fundamental changes in subsistence, resource exploitation, and social complexity. In terms of material culture, this epoch is primarily known for its collective graves and monumental buildings, so-called...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 574 p. La città di Hatra si trova nella Jazira irachena a circa 80 km a sud-ovest di Mosul. Il centro raggiunse il suo apogeo durante il II-III sec. d.C., toccando l’impressionante estensione di quasi 300 ettari e divenendo la capitale di un influente stato cuscinetto, collocato tra l’impero partico e l’impero romano. Questo volume è dedicato allo studio...
BAR Publishing, 1983. — 167 p. — (BAR International Series 170). Our Knowledge of Urartu as a cultural entity has emerged in a splintered and often haphazard manner over the past one hundred or so years due for the most part to its position on the periphery of Mesopotamia and Persia, well outside the biblical scope of archaeology of the Near East. There are references to Urartu...
University of Toronto Press, 2006. — 498 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 42). Studies in Hellenistic Architecture is a detailed analysis of the development of the major building-types of the Hellenistic age – the mid-fourth century B.C. to the time of the Roman conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean. In this meticulous work, Frederick E. Winter reveals how the architects of...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 184 p. — (BAR International Series 2097). This book includes papers from Session C35, Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeology in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organisation, presented at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006. Introduction – The Archaeology of Architecture as Semiotics (The Materiality of Prehistoric World:...
Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1982. — 274 S. — (Materialien zur Baugeschichte 1). Im vorliegenden Band "Die Architektur der Antike" wurde das Schwergewicht auf diejenigen Kulturkreise gelegt, deren bauliche wie gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen wesentliche Grundlagen und Anregung zur Bildung des Abendlandes, des heutigen Europa, gegeben haben.
The MIT Press, 1988. — 106 p. Why do architects still use the classical orders? Why use forms derived from ancient Greek temples when ancient Greek religion has been dead for centuries and when the way of life they expressed is extinct? And why decorate a contemporary courthouse with the bones, eggs, darts, claws, and garlands that an ancient Greek would recognize as the...
Wiley, 2013. — 672 р. — ISBN: 978-1118142103. This landmark study traces the beginnings of architecture by looking at the latest archaeological and anthropological research. From the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to pre-Columbian American societies, "Architecture of First Societies" traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places...
Wiley, 2013. — 673 р. — ISBN: 978-1118142103. Starting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. Looking through the lens of both time and...
Infinity Foundation, 2020. — 311 p. — (Contributions to History of Indian Science and Technology). For the first time ever, this book gives a full view of Harappan architecture and engineering. It begins with the history of the discovery of the Indus Civilisation, from Alexander Cunningham, through Marshall to Wheeler and recent excavators. It delineates the genesis and growth...
Israel Exploration Society, 1992. — 332 p. Immanuel (Munya) Dunayevsky (1906-1968) - the Man and his Work. Chronological Table. Materials and Fashions of Construction . Ronny Reich Building Materials and Architectural Elements in Ancient Israel. Ehud Netzer Massive Structures: Processes in Construction and Deterioration. The Genesis of Architecture. Ofer Bar-Yosef Building...
BAR Publishing, 1998. — 378 p. — (BAR International Series 707). This monograph has three main objectives: 1. To collect and collate the available evidence concerning Ubaid architecture in general, and Late Ubaid architecture in particular. The data for this will come from information recovered from field surveys, documentary sources, personal communication and evidence of the...
Routledge, 1988. — 261 p. — ISBN: 0-203-04107-0. This Dictionary gives a comprehensive survey of the whole range of ancient Near Eastern architecture from the Neolithic round huts in Palestine to the giant temples of Ptolemaic Egypt. Gwendolyn Leick examines the development of the principal styles of ancient architecture within their geographical and historical context, and...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. — 202 p. — ISBN 978-0-292-72193-7. Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 488 p. This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium—from the city’s founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 1202). This study analyses the military architecture of Middle Bronze Age (MBA) Jordan. Although military architecture is one of the defining features of urban development in the MBA Levant, the military architecture of Jordan has never been adequately assessed. The study aims to redress this imbalance and to consider...
University of Texas Press, 1988. — 182 p. In the many centuries preceding Western contact, a richly diverse and innovative architectural tradition reached maturity in the western Pacific. Prehistoric Architecture in Micronesia, the first modern study of this remarkable work, reveals that there is no such thing as primitive architecture but only primitive means. This study...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2005. — 244 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 15). This English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri provides an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern...
Zaphon, 2021. — 308 p. Babylon: The Great City is a richly illustrated advanced introduction to and study of the German and Iraqi excavations in Babylon. The excavated inscriptional materials have been used in the interpretation of the evidence. The book is based on many years of study of the finds and of the documentation from the excavations along with repeated inspections of...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 539 p. The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851,...
Mouton Publishers, 1983. — 557 p. — (Approaches to Semiotics 63). A decade ago I completed a doctoral dissertation on the subject of Minoan architecture whose intent was in part to establish the nature of the planning and layout procedures followed by Minoan builders in the realization of their designs (Minoan Palace Planning and Its Origins, Harvard University, 1968). While...
Archaeopress, 2008. — 257 p. — (BAR International Series 1738). This work focuses on the analysis of the architecture in the Syro-Hittite centres that developed in northern Syria and south-eastern Turkey from the early Iron Age until the Assyrian conquest of the area. A circumwalled lower town and an upper fortified acropolis constituted the usual layout of these centres. These...
Zaphon, 2022. — 488 S. — (Kasion 11). Im Rahmen eines Symposiums wurde die Annäherung an einen kulturimmanenten Blickwinkel auf antike Architektur anhand des Fallbeispiels „Treppenanlagen“ erprobt. Im Anschluss an einer Einführung in das Konzept und den Forschungszweig der Scalalogie versammelt der aus dem Symposium hervorgegangene Band 18 Beiträge zu Treppen im Alten Orient,...
Cambridge University Press, 1916. — 294 p. The study of the Greek house, which but a decade ago began with those shadowy indications of plan and disposition found in the Homeric poems, has suddenly been carried back into the darkness of untold centuries by the amazing discoveries in Crete, and the consequent revelation not only of an advanced pre-Hellenic civilisation extending...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 868 p. — (BAR British Series 550). This research on complex roundhouses of the Scottish Iron Age is split into two volumes. Volume I presents the main text, discussing the results of the analysis and the arguments for their interpretation. There are illustrations within this text that areintended to help illuminate a point at the time of reading without...
University of Chicago Press, 1991. — 348 p. Best known today from biblical accounts of his exploits and ignominious end, the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) was once the ruler of all western Asia. In his capital at Nineveh, in what is now northern Iraq, he built what he called the "Palace without Rival." Though only scattered traces of this magnificent structure are...
Thames & Hudson, 1999. — 312 p. How were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China and the Sphinx at Giza? This text seeks to answer such questions, examining these spectacular feats of engineering and celebrating the achievements of the builders who worked without the aid of modern technology. Expanding on the theme of...
Thames & Hudson, 2024. — 681 р. — ISBN 978-0-500-77815-9 Everyone has heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Pyramids, temples and statues, they embodied the greatest technological achievements known to the Greek-speaking world a couple of centuries before the birth of Christ. That world, of course, was essentially small in scale, centred on the lands around the East...
2nd edition. — London, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2024. — 346 р. — ISBN 978-0-500-29707-0. Everyone has heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Pyramids, temples and statues, they embodied the greatest technological achievements known to the Greek-speaking world a couple of centuries before the birth of Christ. That world, of course, was essentially small in scale,...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2015. — 225 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 49). The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectural development concentrates on the older, larger...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 305 S. — (Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17). Das Neuassyrische Reich (ca. 934-612 v.Chr.) prägte die politische Geographie im Vorderen Orient wie kein anderer Staat während der ersten Hälfte des 1. Jahrtausends v.Chr. Ihre mit der politischen Dominanz einhergehende Macht stellten die assyrischen Herrscher durch die Errichtung...
Picard, 2016. — 264 p. Historien de l'architecture et des civilisations, Henri Stierlin scrute depuis des années les arts de la Grèce et de l'Iran. Il a confronté ici les vestiges des temples grecs d'Ionie, datant du vre siècle avant notre ère, avec les ruines des palais perses bâtis vingt ans plus tard en Iran, suite à l'invasion de l'Anatolie et à la déportation des...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 276 p. The Neolithic sites of Orkney include an impressive number of stone-built tombs, ceremonial monuments and – uniquely for northern Europe – contemporary dwellings. Many of these buildings survive in a remarkable state of preservation, allowing an understanding of the relationship between architectural space and the process of construction that is...
The Great Courses, 2018. — 248 p. The seat of power. A symbol of authority and prosperity. The center of a complex nexus of social and cultural forces. A palace is all of these and more. Palaces are mirrors of the societies that created them and the rulers that occupied them. The palaces of rulers past and present are truly a sight to behold. Marvel at Weiyang, China’s Endless...
British School at Athens, 2007. — 430 p. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Cardiff University, 17-21 April 2001 This volume explores a range of approaches to the built environment of the ancient Mediterranean world, with two main aims: first, to relate archaeological evidence to the wider cultural and historical context, and second, to bridge the conventional divide between...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 585 p. Building the Bronze Age analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organization and social change. This book covers domestic architecture from the southern and central Greek mainland up to southern Thessaly. Site-specific and regional developments are explored. The results are...
Brill, 1992. — 598 p. — (Handbuch der Orientalistik 7). The wealth of excavation in Cyprus conducted across a period of nearly a century and a half has revealed much evidence of ancient building of all functional categories. Whereas the earlier excavation concerned mainly funerary and religious contexts, more recent work has endeavoured to clarify the whole range of building in...
Brill, 1992. — 552 p. — (Handbuch der Orientalistik 7). The wealth of excavation in Cyprus conducted across a period of nearly a century and a half has revealed much evidence of ancient building of all functional categories. Whereas the earlier excavation concerned mainly funerary and religious contexts, more recent work has endeavoured to clarify the whole range of building in...
Brill, 2005. — 554 p. — (Technology and Change in History 7.1/7.2). The following résumé study deals with building material, which together with construction and structures, forms one of the three aspects of building, or equally one of the three factors which constitute the nature of a building. Unlike existing manuals on ancient building, this offers an analytic presentation...
Brill, 2009. — 671 p. — (Technology and Change in History 12.1/12.2). Building construction is the subject of this third part of the Ancient Building Technology set (TCH 4 and TCH 7 dealing with the history of building and building materials). Beginning with the formulation of a project (drawings, specifications and estimates of quantities) it goes on to discuss preliminary...
Калинин: 1948. — 415 с.: ил. — (Из Учёных записок Калиниского государственного педагогического института им. М.И. Калинина, том XIV. вып. II.) Настоящая книга «Антисейсмизм древней архитектуры, Юг СССР, вышедшая в «Ученых записках Калининского Государственного Педагогического Института имени М.И. Калинина», представляет четвертый раздел исследования первой части АДА: I —...
Москва: Издательство Всесоюзной академии архитектуры, 1939. — 164 с., ил., черт., карт., план. — (Популярная библиотека по архитектуре). Эгейская архитектура . Греческая архитектура . Архитектура начала I тысячелетия до н. э. Ордера. Строительные приемы и материалы у греков. Архитектура эпохи архаики (VII и VI вв. до н. э.). Архитектура эпохи классики (V и IV вв. до н. э.)....
М.: МГСУ, 2017. — 276 с. Является первой частью учебника «Всеобщая история архитектуры и строительной техники», состоящего из трех частей, и включает наиболее древние периоды становления архитектуры от первобытно-общинного строя до античного мира Греции и Рима. Рассмотрено также развитие архитектуры протогосударств и государств Междуречья, Египта, древнего Китая и Индии....
М.: МГСУ, 2017. — 276 с. Является первой частью учебника «Всеобщая история архитектуры и строительной техники», состоящего из трех частей, и включает наиболее древние периоды становления архитектуры от первобытно-общинного строя до античного мира Греции и Рима. Рассмотрено также развитие архитектуры протогосударств и государств Междуречья, Египта, древнего Китая и Индии....
Курс лекций: в 2 т. — Томск: ТГАСУ, 2016. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93057-711-2 (т. 1). — ISBN: 978-5-93057-710-5 (общ.). Учебное пособие представляет собой первый том лекционного курса «Архитектура Древнего мира» по дисциплине «История архитектуры. Ч. 1». Оно содержит одиннадцать лекций по архитектуре первобытнообщинного периода, Древнего Египта, государств Передней Азии, Древней...
Курс лекций: в 2 т. — Томск: ТГАСУ, 2017. — 486 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93057-712-9 (т. 2). — ISBN: 978-5-93057-710-5 (общ.) Учебное пособие представляет собой второй том лекционного курса «Архитектура Древнего мира». Оно содержит одиннадцать лекций по зодчеству критомикенских государств, Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Предназначено для подготовки бакалавров по направлениям: 07.03.01...
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