19 events with tag "architecture"
515 BC
ID: 3630
Darius begins Persepolis construction - ceremonial capital, architectural masterpiece
ID: 3630
465 BC
ID: 266
Persepolis construction continues - magnificent ceremonial capital of Persian Empire
ID: 266
447 BC
ID: 241
Parthenon construction begins - Phidias oversees sculptures, pinnacle of Classical architecture
ID: 241
537
ID: 4759
Hagia Sophia completed - Justinian exclaims 'Solomon, I have surpassed thee!', largest cathedral for 1000 years
ID: 4759
1088
ID: 5448
Construction begins on Cluny III, the third abbey church - will become largest church in Christendom until St. Peter's Basilica
ID: 5448
1130
ID: 5450
Cluny III completed - becomes the largest church building in Europe (187 meters long) until reconstruction of St. Peter's in Rome
ID: 5450
1135
ID: 5193
Suger begins rebuilding Saint-Denis - creates first Gothic church, new architectural style spreads across Europe
ID: 5193
1140
ID: 188
Abbot Suger begins rebuilding St. Denis - invents Gothic architecture, 'theology of light'
ID: 188
1194
ID: 2385
Richard builds Château Gaillard - 'Saucy Castle' on Seine to defend Normandy, engineering masterpiece completed in two years
ID: 2385
1248
ID: 46
Cologne Cathedral construction begins - Gothic architecture reaching toward heaven
ID: 46
1436
ID: 5128
Brunelleschi completes dome of Florence Cathedral - engineering marvel without scaffolding, largest masonry dome ever built
ID: 5128
1602
ID: 5120
Bridge of Sighs built - connects interrogation rooms in Doge's Palace with prisons, prisoners sigh seeing last view of Venice
ID: 5120
1743
ID: 4165
Vierzehnheiligen Basilica begun by Balthasar Neumann - masterpiece of German Baroque, shrine to Fourteen Holy Helpers
ID: 4165
1907
ID: 1166
Hermann Muthesius publishes 'The English House,' influencing modern architecture through German design theory
ID: 1166
1945
ID: 4583
Von Neumann architecture described - stored program concept revolutionizes computing
ID: 4583
1945
ID: 4294
June 1945
Von Neumann writes 'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC' - defines stored-program computer architecture
ID: 4294
1962
ID: 1791
Acrylic sheet (Plexiglas) becomes widely used in architecture and construction
ID: 1791
1970
ID: 4326
January 1970
DEC introduces PDP-11 - most successful minicomputer line, influences all modern computer architectures
ID: 4326
2017
ID: 3303
Transformer architecture revolutionizes natural language processing with attention mechanisms
ID: 3303