1. Romanesque: Early Medieval
Characteristics of Early Medieval (Gothic) architecture: Focus on glorification of God, teach about God and heaven, large structures supported by massive buttresses

2. Thin walls, High structures, Large windows with plenty of light
Gothic: Late Medieval

3. Light equals the divine in the mind of the medieval person Less fortress like. Build in harmony, order, symmetry and Light

4. (Gothic)

5. Santa Maria Novella-Leon Battista Alberti
Characteristics of Renaissance Architecture: Focus on Glorification of Classical Life, Created to glorify the great possibilities of man and his world, Large structures supported by Arches and Columns like in ancient Greece and Rome
Santa Maria Novella-Leon Battista Alberti

6. Duomo-Filippo Brunelleschi

7. La Rotunda--Villa Capra, Vicenza-Andrea Palladio

9. Bessemer Blast Furnace

10. Steel

12. Flatiron Building NY, 1902, 22 floors (285 ft.)
Chrysler Building, NY , ,047 ft.
The flatiron building was one of New York’s first skyscrapers and one of the first to use Bessemer steel beams to take weight off the outside walls. At 1,047 feet the Chrysler building was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931
Woolworth Building NY 1913, 27 floors (792 feet)

13. Empire State Building NY 102 stories, 1250 feet, 1931
Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1972[

14. World Trade Center 110 stories

15. Shanghai Pudong

16. Shanghai Bund

17. Shanghai TV Tower

20. Ming Dynasty Wall Xian, China

21. Bell Tower--Xian

22. Beijing

23. Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998 (1483 ft.)
Tapering twin towers (connected by a sky bridge) share an Islamic-influenced geometrically polygonal plan.

24. Burj Khalifa, Dubai: built 2004-2010
(2,716.5 feet) 160 stories

25. LONDON | London Bridge Tower (The Shard) 1014ft | 73 floors
Shard London Bridge (previously known as London Bridge Tower,[4][5] and also known as the Shard of Glass,[6][7] 32 London Bridge, and The Shard) is a pyramid-shaped skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London which in December 2011 became the tallest building in the European Union. When completed in May 2012, it will stand at 310 m (1,017 ft) tall. It will also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the 330 m (1,083 ft)
LONDON | London Bridge Tower (The Shard) 1014ft | 73 floors

26. Construction workers scaled the top of The Shard, London's latest landmark, on 2/4/12, putting in place some of the final pieces of the giant construction.
Europe's highest tower is being built close to Tower Bridge and will rise to a height of 310 metres (1,017ft) when complete.
The building, which already dominates the capital's historic skyline, has been built at a cost of more than £450m, and will be divided between residential accommodation and office space.