Some years I have scheduled architecture on alternating weeks with Artist Picture Study. Other years I have scheduled it in for every week in the “Arts” slot in the daily schedule (artist study, composer study, art theory – Lumen, and music theory – Sound to Song are on the other four days)
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Young People’s Story of Architecture
When M was in AO4 and Em was in AO1 we started reading through, Young People’s Story of Architecture: 3000 B.C. – Gothic Period by V. M. Hillyer and E.G. Huey.
Here are resources I created or found as we are going through the book:
- For Pages 44-59: Types of Columns
- For Pages 50-55: The Erechtheum and Caryatid
- For Pages 82-84: Types of Moldings
- For Pages 84-85: Types of Borders
- For Pages 90-96: Hagia Sophia video
- For Pages 96-99: Other Byzantine Buildings, videos:
- St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow
- St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice
- For Pages 107-112: Romanesque: The Leaning Tower of Pisa (video)
Cathedral by David Macaulay
I did not have a specific schedule for these readings. We read a couple of pages and stopped when the topic changed. Below are some of the videos and diagrams we also used throughout the year.
- PBS Animation of book: Cathedral by David Macaulay (I decided not to use this)
- Diagram of Cathedral: Britannica.com
- Labeled floor plan of gothic cathedral: VisualDictionaryOnline.com
- Intro Video: The Top Ten Gothic Cathedrals of Medieval Europe (3:20 min)
- Pg 17: Worst Jobs in Middle Ages – Stone Masons and Builders (10 min), Stone Carving (2:40 min)
- Pg 36: Engineering Models – Gothic Cathedrals (5:14 min)
- Pg 38: What is Rose Window in Gothic Architecture? (2:40 min) ; How Are Stained Glass Windows Made? (8:18 min) ; How was it Made? Stained Glass Window (3:54 min)
- Pg 71: Explore York Minster Cathedral, Including the bell tower (4:19 min)
- Pg 71: Why Notre Dame’s Gargoyles Are More Than Art (2:48 min) ; Gargoyles – The Origin of the Enigmatic Stone Creatures (2:35 min)
- Further Study – Notre Dame: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris – Before the Fire (4:49 min) ; Why the Notre Dame Cathedral burned to quickly, badly (1:58 min) ; How France Rebuilt the Notre Dame Cathedral (12:24 min)
Mosque by David Macaulay
- Week 1: Reading Pg 7
- Week 2: Islamic Geometric Patterns
- Video: The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design (5:06 min)
- Draw your own patters (Supplies needed: Paper, Compass)
- Tutorials: Geometric Circle, Geometric Mandala
- Week 3: Mimar Sinam, Architect
- Ottoman Architect Mimar Sinan (3:22 min)
- Mimar Sinan: The Master Architect Who Shaped Turkish History (5:38 min)
- Week 4: Reading Pg 9 – third paragraph on page 10 (end at “…of the prayer hall.”)
- Week 5: Reading Pg 10, start at “For Akif Agha…” – page 13
- Week 6: Reading Pg 15-16
- Week 7: Reading Pg 18
- Week 8: Reading Pg 20-24
- Week 9: Reading Pg 26-32
- Week 10: Reading Pg 34-39
- Week 11: Reading pg 40-41
- Photo: Stairs inside a minaret
- Week 12: Reading Pg 43-45
- Week 13: Reading Pg 46-48
- Video: Call to Prayer from top of minaret in Sarajevo (1:21 min)
- Week 14: Reading Pg 51-52
- Week 15: Reading Pg 55-57
- Video: Step Inside Iran’s Kaleidoscopic Mosque (1:40 min)
- Week 16: Reading Pg 58-61
- Week 17: Reading Pg 62-66
- Week 18: Reading Pg 68-70
- Week 19: Reading Pg 73-74
- Week 20: Reading Pg 76-83
- Week 21: Reading Pg 85-87
- Week 22: Reading Pg 88-91
- Week 23: Reading Pg 93-95
- Week 24: Video: 15 most beautiful mosques in the world (9:54 min)
Ambling Together 
