Project Gutenberg 2025-07-12 Public domain in the USA. 219 Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman 1861 1892 11009098 A short history of architecture $aNew York :$bCharles Scribner's Sons, $c1887, pubdate 1897. With illustrations by the author. Charlene Taylor, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A short history of architecture" by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman is a concise architectural history written in the late 19th century. It sketches the origins, principles, and hallmark features of major building traditions across cultures—moving from prehistoric stoneworks through Egypt, Asia, Greece, Rome, and on to medieval and Renaissance Europe—aimed at general readers and students, with minimal technical jargon. The beginning of this volume sets its purpose: to give the main facts of architectural development plainly, defining architecture as the union of utility and beauty, rooted in construction and decoration, and outlining the periods to be covered. It then surveys early evidence—Celtic megaliths (menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs like Stonehenge) as the first clear post‑and‑lintel thinking—and turns to Egypt’s tombs and temples (the Gizeh pyramids, the Sphinx, mastabahs and Beni Hassan “proto‑Doric” columns, Theban rock tombs, Karnak’s hypostyle hall, and Nubian rock temples), praising technical mastery while noting a rigid conventionality. Next come India’s stupas, rock‑cut caves, and monolithic temples (Ellora’s Kylas) and pagodas; China’s largely wooden tradition, great bridges, taas towers, and the Great Wall; and Mesopotamia–Persia: Assyrian palaces with winged bulls, early true arches and glazed bricks, staged temple‑towers (ziggurats), and Persepolis with its bull‑headed columns, followed by Sassanian elliptical vaults. The narrative briefly treats the Temple of Jerusalem and Lycian tombs that bridge wood and stone, then shifts to Greece—from Cyclopean Tiryns and Mycenae to the codified Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders and the monuments of the Athenian Acropolis (Propylæa, Parthenon, Erechtheion’s caryatids, Temple of Nike), with notes on theatres, houses, and colonial temples—before opening the section on Etruria and Rome’s adaptation of Greek orders to the arch and vault. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/39002011214120.med.yale.edu/page/n9/mode/2up 20220719161554tuckerman 1887 US Reading ease score: 53.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Architecture -- History NA Text Category: Architecture Category: Art 302207 2025-09-30T07:57:27.389202 text/html 276318 2025-07-12T17:11:40 text/html 3984740 2025-09-30T07:57:34.543201 application/epub+zip 3982408 2025-09-30T07:57:29.565172 application/epub+zip 226408 2025-09-30T07:57:28.268188 application/epub+zip 4358721 2025-09-30T07:57:38.057218 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4328674 2025-09-30T07:57:33.557166 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 260660 2025-09-30T07:57:26.740184 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 240721 2025-07-12T17:11:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16353 2025-09-30T07:57:38.203130 application/rdf+xml 12085 2025-09-30T07:57:28.562189 image/jpeg 2122 2025-09-30T07:57:28.412197 image/jpeg 4421543 2025-09-30T07:57:27.492245 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog