# Architecture Decks

Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization.

Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/architecture
Deck count: 10

## Decks

### Ancient Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-ancient-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-ancient-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: architecture, ancient

Architecture begins not with shelter but with ceremony. The first monumental buildings predate agriculture; they predate writing; in some cases they predate the wheel. Key sections include: Ancient Architecture.; Opening Before the city.; Chapter I What counts as ancient.; Chapter II Göbekli Tepe.; Chapter III Çatalhöyük.; Chapter IV Mud, brick, the city.; Chapter V Mastaba to step pyramid.; Chapter VI The Great Pyramid.; Chapter VII The temple as forest.; Chapter VIII Mohenjo-daro and Harappa..

Outline:
1. Ancient Architecture.
2. Opening Before the city.
3. Chapter I What counts as ancient.
4. Chapter II Göbekli Tepe.
5. Chapter III Çatalhöyük.
6. Chapter IV Mud, brick, the city.
7. Chapter V Mastaba to step pyramid.
8. Chapter VI The Great Pyramid.
9. Chapter VII The temple as forest.
10. Chapter VIII Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.
11. Chapter IX Stonehenge.
12. Chapter X Newgrange and the dolmens.
13. Chapter XI The Minoan palace.
14. Chapter XII Megaron, Lion Gate, tholos.
15. Chapter XIII Hattusa.
16. Chapter XIV The first New World cities.
17. Chapter XV Stone, brick, wood, mud.
18. Chapter XVI Without the wheel, without the pulley.
19. Chapter XVII Corbel, false arch, true arch.
20. Chapter XVIII Persepolis.
21. Chapter XIX Pharaoh's recipe.
22. Chapter XX Architecture as ritual.
23. Chapter XXI Aligned to the heavens.
24. Chapter XXII Collapse, and what survived.
25. Chapter XXIII Caral and the Norte Chico.
26. Chapter XXIV What ancient architecture gave us.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII The argument of stones.
30. Colophon

### Brutalism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-brutalism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-brutalism/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, brutalism

Brutalism is the most aggressively unloved style in the history of modern architecture, and also one of the most photographed. Half its buildings have been demolished or scheduled for it. The other half are listed monuments and Instagram backdrops. Key sections include: Brut alism.; Opening The case for concrete.; Chapter I What it is.; Chapter II The Unité.; Chapter III Alison and Peter Smithson.; Chapter IV Trellick Tower.; Chapter V The Barbican.; Chapter VI Boston City Hall.; Chapter VII Safdie's Habitat.; Chapter VIII The civic monuments..

Outline:
1. Brut alism.
2. Opening The case for concrete.
3. Chapter I What it is.
4. Chapter II The Unité.
5. Chapter III Alison and Peter Smithson.
6. Chapter IV Trellick Tower.
7. Chapter V The Barbican.
8. Chapter VI Boston City Hall.
9. Chapter VII Safdie's Habitat.
10. Chapter VIII The civic monuments.
11. Chapter IX Socialist concrete.
12. Chapter X Brutalism in the tropics.
13. Chapter XI The British case.
14. Chapter XII The material.
15. Chapter XIII The collapse.
16. Chapter XIV The roll of the lost.
17. Chapter XV The 21st-century revival.
18. Chapter XVI The new concrete.
19. Chapter XVII The capital.
20. Chapter XVIII American brutalism.
21. Chapter XIX Brutalism on film.
22. Chapter XX Was it good architecture.
23. Chapter XXI The preservation problem.
24. Chapter XXII The library.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
27. Chapter XXV The neo-brutalist confusion.
28. Chapter XXVI What's still unresolved.
29. Chapter XXVII Why it matters.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next chapter.
31. The end of the deck.

### Classical Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-classical-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-classical-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: architecture, classical

For two and a half millennia, "to build well" in the West has meant something close to: build the way the Greeks and Romans built. The argument is not yet over. Key sections include: Classical Architecture.; Opening The longest argument.; Chapter I The Doric order.; Chapter II The Ionic order.; Chapter III The Corinthian order.; Chapter IV The Parthenon.; Chapter V Erechtheion and Caryatids.; Chapter VI Stoa, agora, theatre.; Chapter VII The Hellenistic turn.; Chapter VIII The Roman concrete revolution..

Outline:
1. Classical Architecture.
2. Opening The longest argument.
3. Chapter I The Doric order.
4. Chapter II The Ionic order.
5. Chapter III The Corinthian order.
6. Chapter IV The Parthenon.
7. Chapter V Erechtheion and Caryatids.
8. Chapter VI Stoa, agora, theatre.
9. Chapter VII The Hellenistic turn.
10. Chapter VIII The Roman concrete revolution.
11. Chapter IX Arch, vault, dome.
12. Chapter X The Pantheon.
13. Chapter XI Colosseum.
14. Chapter XII The Roman Forum.
15. Chapter XIII Pompeii and the house.
16. Chapter XIV Vitruvius.
17. Chapter XV Hadrian's villa.
18. Chapter XVI The bath as social space.
19. Chapter XVII Aqueducts, roads, bridges.
20. Chapter XVIII Quotation.
21. Chapter XIX Late antiquity and the basilica.
22. Chapter XX Hagia Sophia.
23. Chapter XXI The triumphal arch.
24. Chapter XXII Polychromy.
25. Chapter XXIII Proportion and the human body.
26. Chapter XXIV The empire abroad.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII The classical, still.
30. Colophon

### Gothic Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-gothic-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-gothic-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: architecture, gothic

Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The wall, structurally, dissolves. Key sections include: Gothic Architecture.; Opening The wall dissolves.; Chapter I What came before.; Chapter II The pointed arch.; Chapter III Suger's Saint-Denis.; Chapter IV Notre-Dame de Paris.; Chapter V Chartres.; Chapter VI Glass as theology.; Chapter VII The flying buttress.; Chapter VIII Reims..

Outline:
1. Gothic Architecture.
2. Opening The wall dissolves.
3. Chapter I What came before.
4. Chapter II The pointed arch.
5. Chapter III Suger's Saint-Denis.
6. Chapter IV Notre-Dame de Paris.
7. Chapter V Chartres.
8. Chapter VI Glass as theology.
9. Chapter VII The flying buttress.
10. Chapter VIII Reims.
11. Chapter IX Amiens.
12. Chapter X Sainte-Chapelle.
13. Chapter XI England diverges.
14. Chapter XII Cologne.
15. Chapter XIII Italy refuses.
16. Chapter XIV Spain and Portugal.
17. Chapter XV Backsteingotik.
18. Chapter XVI The window grows up.
19. Chapter XVII Saints, gargoyles, the dead.
20. Chapter XVIII Who built them.
21. Chapter XIX Suger.
22. Chapter XX The reformation and after.
23. Chapter XXI The Gothic Revival.
24. Chapter XXII Restoration today.
25. Chapter XXIII Hall church.
26. Chapter XXIV Iconography of the cathedral.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII Why it still works.
30. Colophon

### Landscape Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-landscape-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-landscape-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, landscape

Landscape architecture is the only design discipline that improves over decades. A garden completes itself in 30 years; a park reaches its character in 50; a designed forest becomes its imagined self in a century. Most landscape architects never see their best work. Key sections include: Lands cape.; Opening The slowest art.; Chapter I What it does.; Chapter II Frederick Law Olmsted.; Chapter III Central Park, in detail.; Chapter IV Capability Brown.; Chapter V Before Brown.; Chapter VI The Japanese garden.; Chapter VII Stones, water, moss.; Chapter VIII The Chinese scholar garden..

Outline:
1. Lands cape.
2. Opening The slowest art.
3. Chapter I What it does.
4. Chapter II Frederick Law Olmsted.
5. Chapter III Central Park, in detail.
6. Chapter IV Capability Brown.
7. Chapter V Before Brown.
8. Chapter VI The Japanese garden.
9. Chapter VII Stones, water, moss.
10. Chapter VIII The Chinese scholar garden.
11. Chapter IX Persian paradise.
12. Chapter X The modern movement.
13. Chapter XI The American park system.
14. Chapter XII The High Line.
15. Chapter XIII Field Operations.
16. Chapter XIV Piet Oudolf.
17. Chapter XV Ecology and the discipline.
18. Chapter XVI The reclamation projects.
19. Chapter XVII Climate-driven landscape.
20. Chapter XVIII The memorial landscape.
21. Chapter XIX The public-space question.
22. Chapter XX The regional designers.
23. Chapter XXI Becoming one.
24. Chapter XXII The shelf.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
27. Chapter XXV The working tools.
28. Chapter XXVI How landscape architecture fails.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. Chapter XXVIII Why it matters.
31. The end of the deck.

### Modernist Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-modernist-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-modernist-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, modernist

Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the new materials of industry — steel, glass, reinforced concrete — required a new architectural language without historical reference, applied ornament, or regional inflection. They were partly right and partly catastrophically wrong, and the buildings they made now... Key sections include: Modern ism.; Opening The break.; Chapter I The Bauhaus.; Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.; Chapter III Mies's principles.; Chapter IV Le Corbusier.; Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.; Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.; Chapter VII Organic architecture.; Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue..

Outline:
1. Modern ism.
2. Opening The break.
3. Chapter I The Bauhaus.
4. Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.
5. Chapter III Mies's principles.
6. Chapter IV Le Corbusier.
7. Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.
8. Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.
9. Chapter VII Organic architecture.
10. Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue.
11. Chapter IX Walter Gropius.
12. Chapter X Alvar Aalto.
13. Chapter XI Brasília.
14. Chapter XII The American postwar.
15. Chapter XIII Case Study Houses.
16. Chapter XIV The postwar diffusion.
17. Chapter XV The postmodern reaction.
18. Chapter XVI Late modernism, neo-modernism.
19. Chapter XVII Asian modernism.
20. Chapter XVIII The counter-traditions.
21. Chapter XIX The failures.
22. Chapter XX What survives.
23. Chapter XXI The pilgrimage.
24. Chapter XXII The library.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The case for and against.
27. Chapter XXV Where it goes.
28. Chapter XXVI The argument's end.
29. Chapter XXVII Looking at modernism.
30. Chapter XXVIII Where modernism still lives.
31. The end of the deck.

### Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-renaissance-baroque-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-renaissance-baroque-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: architecture, renaissance, baroque

The Renaissance is the rebirth of classical architecture. The Baroque is what classical architecture does once it has stopped being self-conscious about it. Key sections include: Renaissance & Baroque Architecture.; Opening The dome and the dance.; Chapter I Brunelleschi's dome.; Chapter II The Florentine vocabulary.; Chapter III Alberti.; Chapter IV Bramante.; Chapter V Michelangelo as architect.; Chapter VI Palladio.; Chapter VII Palladio's villas.; Chapter VIII The strain of Mannerism..

Outline:
1. Renaissance & Baroque Architecture.
2. Opening The dome and the dance.
3. Chapter I Brunelleschi's dome.
4. Chapter II The Florentine vocabulary.
5. Chapter III Alberti.
6. Chapter IV Bramante.
7. Chapter V Michelangelo as architect.
8. Chapter VI Palladio.
9. Chapter VII Palladio's villas.
10. Chapter VIII The strain of Mannerism.
11. Chapter IX The Baroque opens.
12. Chapter X Bernini.
13. Chapter XI Borromini.
14. Chapter XII The third man.
15. Chapter XIII St Peter's, finally.
16. Chapter XIV France: the classical Baroque.
17. Chapter XV Versailles.
18. Chapter XVI Le Nôtre.
19. Chapter XVII England, with Wren and Hawksmoor.
20. Chapter XVIII The Habsburg Baroque.
21. Chapter XIX The Rococo.
22. Chapter XX Alberti.
23. Chapter XXI The book era.
24. Chapter XXII The Baroque crosses the Atlantic.
25. Chapter XXIII Baroque urbanism.
26. Chapter XXIV The Neoclassical reaction.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII Three centuries, one conversation.
30. Colophon

### Skyscrapers
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-skyscrapers
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-skyscrapers/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, skyscrapers

A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator, and the central HVAC system — that together permitted occupied space to rise hundreds of metres above the ground. Key sections include: Sky scrapers.; Opening Up.; Chapter I What counts.; Chapter II The Chicago school.; Chapter III "Form follows function."; Chapter IV New York learns.; Chapter V The Empire State.; Chapter VI The Chrysler.; Chapter VII The postwar tower.; Chapter VIII The tube structure..

Outline:
1. Sky scrapers.
2. Opening Up.
3. Chapter I What counts.
4. Chapter II The Chicago school.
5. Chapter III "Form follows function."
6. Chapter IV New York learns.
7. Chapter V The Empire State.
8. Chapter VI The Chrysler.
9. Chapter VII The postwar tower.
10. Chapter VIII The tube structure.
11. Chapter IX The World Trade Center.
12. Chapter X The Asian shift.
13. Chapter XI The Burj Khalifa.
14. Chapter XII The pencil tower.
15. Chapter XIII The Chinese supertall boom.
16. Chapter XIV The engineering, in detail.
17. Chapter XV The climate question.
18. Chapter XVI Why build them?
19. Chapter XVII The residential supertall.
20. Chapter XVIII The world's skyline cities.
21. Chapter XIX Working at altitude.
22. Chapter XX How they fail.
23. Chapter XXI The supertall practices.
24. Chapter XXII The shelf.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
27. Chapter XXV What's coming.
28. Chapter XXVI The case for and against.
29. Chapter XXVII How to read one.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next century.
31. The end of the deck.

### Sustainable Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-sustainable-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-sustainable-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, sustainable

Buildings are responsible for roughly 37% of global energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions — about 27% from operating energy and 10% from embodied carbon in construction materials. The decarbonisation of architecture is not a sub-discipline; it is the central design problem of the next forty years. Key sections include: Sustain able.; Opening The mandate.; Chapter I The numbers.; Chapter II Passive design.; Chapter III Passivhaus.; Chapter IV LEED and BREEAM.; Chapter V Embodied carbon.; Chapter VI Mass timber.; Chapter VII Low-carbon concrete.; Chapter VIII Biophilic design..

Outline:
1. Sustain able.
2. Opening The mandate.
3. Chapter I The numbers.
4. Chapter II Passive design.
5. Chapter III Passivhaus.
6. Chapter IV LEED and BREEAM.
7. Chapter V Embodied carbon.
8. Chapter VI Mass timber.
9. Chapter VII Low-carbon concrete.
10. Chapter VIII Biophilic design.
11. Chapter IX Climate-responsive design.
12. Chapter X Net zero.
13. Chapter XI The retrofit imperative.
14. Chapter XII The architects.
15. Chapter XIII What pre-modern buildings already knew.
16. Chapter XIV The materials revolution.
17. Chapter XV Building energy systems.
18. Chapter XVI Water-conscious design.
19. Chapter XVII The sustainable site.
20. Chapter XVIII Health and indoor environment.
21. Chapter XIX The economic argument.
22. Chapter XX Greenwashing.
23. Chapter XXI The library.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The pilgrimage.
26. Chapter XXIV The sustainable city.
27. Chapter XXV Open problems.
28. Chapter XXVI Why this matters.
29. Chapter XXVII If you're an architect.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next decade.
31. The end of the deck.

### Vernacular Architecture
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-vernacular-architecture
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-vernacular-architecture/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: architecture, vernacular

Vernacular architecture is the architecture of the people who would live in the result. It is built without architects, refined over centuries by trial and adaptation, sourced from local materials, attuned to local climate, and shaped by the social patterns of the community that builds it. Until 1964 it was largely invisible to the discipline of architecture; since then it has been one of the discipline's... Key sections include: Vernac ular.; Opening What we forgot.; Chapter I What it is.; Chapter II Architecture Without Architects.; Chapter III Earth construction.; Chapter IV Earth, by region.; Chapter V Timber traditions.; Chapter VI The Japanese minka.; Chapter VII Stone traditions.; Chapter VIII Bamboo and tropical materials..

Outline:
1. Vernac ular.
2. Opening What we forgot.
3. Chapter I What it is.
4. Chapter II Architecture Without Architects.
5. Chapter III Earth construction.
6. Chapter IV Earth, by region.
7. Chapter V Timber traditions.
8. Chapter VI The Japanese minka.
9. Chapter VII Stone traditions.
10. Chapter VIII Bamboo and tropical materials.
11. Chapter IX Arctic and sub-arctic.
12. Chapter X The recurring forms.
13. Chapter XI The vernacular settlement.
14. Chapter XII The vernacular's decline.
15. Chapter XIII The contemporary recovery.
16. Chapter XIV The tropical regional.
17. Chapter XV African vernacular.
18. Chapter XVI Indigenous American.
19. Chapter XVII The UNESCO list.
20. Chapter XVIII Paul Oliver and the documentation project.
21. Chapter XIX How form follows culture.
22. Chapter XX The library.
23. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
24. Chapter XXII The pilgrimage.
25. Chapter XXIII Why this matters now.
26. Chapter XXIV What remains practical.
27. Chapter XXV What's already lost.
28. Chapter XXVI The next decades.
29. Chapter XXVII The wisdom recovered.
30. Chapter XXVIII The continuing tradition.
31. The end of the deck.