Timeline

It was interesting to see all the different time periods/ cultures on one timeline. Mainly because I had not thought of them in a particular order and how each transformed from one to another. We see circles, stacks, and groves in the first efforts and how they have stayed with us up to modern day. Through the timeline we also see how each time period borrows certain principles and elements from past time periods. For example, Rome borrows ideas from ancient Greece but adds significant ideas, such as the arch and the dome. Strong continuity is expressed through Greece, the Renaissance, and post modernism. The Gothic time period, modernism, and present day are different, taking advantage of new materials and technologies. Also a strong idea expressed is continuity through time.  We see a change in materials through time as well, while Ancient Greece uses more wood and stone, stained glass in the Gothic period, iron in the classical revivals, titanium in deconstructive, and steele and glass in modernism. It is also mentioned how in present day glass can be used to construct an entire building. As for light and color, we see a strong sense of polychromatic work from the first efforts all the way up to the modern time period, opposed to both the lack of color and polychromatic work from the modern time period to present day.