RELATED WEB SITES

The following is a list of sites that may be helpful for studying architectural history and in particular the sites studied in Art 230. The list will grow as the students in Art 230 make suggestions for additions.

• Stones of England
• Stonehenge Site: Britannia Internet Magazine
• Dating Stonehenge: English Heritage Site
• Stonehenge:  English Heritage Site
  
• University of Missouri Stonehenge Site

Art 230 Pyramids Page

• Nova's Pyramid Page
• Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser compiled at the University of Pennsylvania
• Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• The Great Pyramid of Giza: from Boston University
• Giza: from the University of Memphis
• Egypt Link: Links to resources on Egyptology compiled by Greg Reeder

Art 230 Tikal Page

• Tikal
  
• Tikal Digital Access Project:   University of Pennsylvania
• Historic Photos of Tikal
• Tikal notebooks of archeologist Teobert Maler
• Photos of Mayan sites
  
• Tour of Tikal
  
• Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute
  
• Views of Mayan sites
  
• Maya Meetings at University of Texas 

Art 230 Acropolis Page

• Ancient City of Athens from Indiana University
• Acropolis, Greek Ministry of Culture 
  
• 360 degree tour of Acropolis
  
• Acropolis website, SUNY Oneanta
  
• History of Acropolis with weblinks
  
• Acropolis Restoration Project
  
• The Parthenon, Reed College
  
• The Parthenon, University of Colorado   
• The Parthenon Frieze
  
• Parthenon and related images, Tufts University Perseus Project
  

Art 230 Baths Page

• Ancient Baths Resource Site Garrett G. Fagan, Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at The Pennsylvania State University
• Views of Caracalla, University of Buffalo
• Baths of Caracalla, University of Chicago
• A Day at the Baths, from PBS’s Nova program
• Roman Baths
  
• Roman Baths
• Roman Baths, University of Saskatchewan
  

Art 230 St. Gall Page

• The Rule of St. Benedict: in Latin, English, Spanish and Hungarian
• The Rule of St. Benedict in English 
  
• About the Rule of St. Benedict
  
• Abbey of St. Gall
  
• Plan of St. Gall (including various reconstructions) 

Art 230 Chartres Page

• Chartres at the University of Pittsburgh
• Chartres at San Jose State University
• Chartres at Bluffton University
• Congregation of Cluny from the Catholic Encyclopaedia
• Charter of Cluny from the Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University
• The Cistercians  at Georgia College and State University
  
• Amiens Cathedral Site at Columbia University

Art 230 Masjid-i Shah Page

• Isfahan  at the Anglia Polytechnic University
  
• Masjid-i Shah images from M.I.T.
• Islamic Architecturel Organization
  

Art 230 Pienza Page

• Pienza  from the Town Council of Pienza
• Map of Pienza from the Town Council of Pienza
• Justification for Pienza as World Heritage Site
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: slides by Prof. Westfall at the University of Virginia
• Alberti
• Alberti
  

Art 230 Forbidden City Page

• Images of the Forbidden City
  
• A Virtual Tour of the Forbidden City: Click on the map to start the tour
• Images of the Forbidden City: by Alison Stuebe of the New York Times
• Forbidden City in the Ch'ing Dynasty from the Oakland Museum
  

Art 230 Katsura Imperial Villa Page

• Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Villa) provides extensive explanation of the site
• Images of Katsura Imperial Villa
• Tour of the garden at Katsura Imperial Villa
  
• The Aesthetic of Symbiosis: chapter in a book by the architect Kisho Kurokama

Art 230 Brighton Pavillion Page

• Official site of the Brighton Pavilion
  
• Biography of John Nash
• Georgian Architecture
• Chinoiserie
  

Art 230 MIT Stata Page (under construction)

• MIT Stata Center site
  
• Stata Center Images
  
• Frank Gehry - Pritzker Prize page
  
• Frank Gehry - Biography and views of works
  
• Frank Gehry - Guggenheim Museum exhibition
  

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