INTRODUCTION

ARCHITECTURE - Can be defined in at least 4 ways, all

valid, all interrelated and none truly satisfactory.

1. Art and science of erecting structures

2. Planned entity; the result of a conscious art

3. A body or corpus of work

4. A way to build

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
-Systematic record of man’s achievements & progress in
building
-Historic Style: characteristic form of expression of design
which prevails

3 IMPORTANT TREATISE IN HISTORY

Commodite – utilitarian qualities / functional

requirement
 HISTORY
OF ARCHITECTURE
 Firmness – structural stability and sound
construction or technological requirement
Delighte – attractive appearance/ aesthetic
requirements

Paleolithic Age
• Hunters and gatherers Nomadic
• Simple tools and weapons
• Use of fire
• Spoken language
• Burial of dead
• Belief in a spiritual world Creation of cave
paintings

Mesolithic Age
• Hunters, Fishermen and collectors
• Polished tools and sometimes crafted with
points and attached to antlers, bone or
wood to serve as spears and arrows
• Nomadic camps near bodies of water
 Neolithic Age
• work as farmers
• Live in permanent villages
• Use domesticated plants and animals
• Large villages
• Increased status for males Warriors
assert power over others
• More personal possessions
• New technologies

PRIMITIVE DWELLINGS
Simplest kinds of buildings, though the
purposes which they served were
the same as those of later times in
civilized communities
1. CAVES – hunting or fishing
2. HUTS- for agriculture
3. TENTS – shepherds and
nomadic life