Changan city plan Planner Yuwen Kai Capitol for

Chang’an, city plan, Planner: Yuwen Kai. Capitol for Sui & T’ang Dynasties; ca. 600.

Shanxi Province, Foguang Temple (main hall), 857.

Foguang Temple, interior; view of Buddhist sculptures.

Uji-Yamada (Japan), Ise Shrine, Initial construction: ? ? , perhaps 5 th century CE (to the present).

Shikinen sengu: “the transfer of the god-body to a new shrine in a special festival year. ”

Naiku = Inner shrine

near Nara (Japan), Horyu-ji Temple Complex, c. 670 -714.

Horyuji Temple, Pagoda.

Teotihuacán (Mexico), view of the Pyramid of the Sun, c. 200 C. E.

Teotihuacán, plan.

Teotihuacán, Pyramid of the Moon, front view, ca. 250 CE.

Teotihuacán, Pyramid of the Moon.

Tikal (Guatemala), Temple I, 734 -736. for: Jasaw Chan K’awiil

Chichén-Itzá, Castillo, before 1000; distant view.

Chichén-Itzá, Caracol (the observatory), ca. 900.

Chichén-Itzá, Ball Court, c. 1100; distant view.

Chichén-Itzá, Ball Court, ground level.

Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito, c. 860 – c. 1300 s; aerial view.

Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito; plan of the site – later phase.

Phoenix, Pueblo Grande, ceremonial platform mound. Period of occupation: c. 450 -1450.

Rome, S. Costanza, ca. 350.

Constantinople, Hag(h)ia Sophia, aerial view, 532 -537. ‘Architects’: Anthemios of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus.

Hagia Sophia, interior view.

Ravenna, San Vitale, exterior, 546 -548.

PSU Library Pictures Collection.

Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Kaaba, purified by Muhammad in 630.

Medina, Mosque of the Prophet, c. 624. Image: Archnet. org

Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, completed 691. Patron: Abd al-Malik.

Dome of the Rock, the rock. Dome of the Rock, ambulatory.

Damascus, Great Mosque, aerial view, 706. Patron: al-Walid (Umayyad dynasty).

Damascus, view of mihrab.