# Architecture / a brief structural history

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:33.732Z
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## Summary

From the megalith to the megacity. Thirteen sheets tracing how humans have shaped, stacked, vaulted, and printed space — and what each era carried forward into the next. Key sections include: Architecture / a brief structural history; Stones standing up — the post and lintel.; Mass, geometry, and a stone mountain for a king.; The orders — rules of how a column meets a roof.; Concrete, the arch, and the dome.; Walls become bones — pointed arch + flying buttress.; The dome, reborn on geometry.; Drama, motion, the curved facade.; Iron, steel, and the building that wants to be a machine.; "Form follows function." Ornament leaves the building..

## Slide Outline

1. Architecture / a brief structural history
2. Stones standing up — the post and lintel.
3. Mass, geometry, and a stone mountain for a king.
4. The orders — rules of how a column meets a roof.
5. Concrete, the arch, and the dome.
6. Walls become bones — pointed arch + flying buttress.
7. The dome, reborn on geometry.
8. Drama, motion, the curved facade.
9. Iron, steel, and the building that wants to be a machine.
10. "Form follows function." Ornament leaves the building.
11. The grid relaxes. The building learns to bend.
12. The building as a climate device.
13. Further reading — and references.

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