College of Environmental Design
Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
Architecture Slide Library
Fall 1995 James Study Aid 9
I. Apadama or audience hall and the Palace of Khosrow II 590 - 628 CE, in Ctesiphon (Iraq), built of baked brick. Capital of the Sassanian empire. Barrel vaulted iwan flanked by tiers of applied columns. precedent for later Islamic architecture in the region.
III. Impact of Alexander the Great's 4th century conquest of the Achaemened Empire on the neighboring Mauryan Empire in India. Immigrant builders from Iran introduced stone architecture into India, where its forms were transformed to suit local Hindu and Buddhist faiths. Persopolis-like Pillars erected throughout the country by Asoka (ruled 269 - 232 BCE) as semi-sacred emblems of his political authority (axis mundi).
IV. Early Buddhist architecture in India: Lomas Rishi cave, Barabar , 3rd century BCE. Development of sacred space in Ajanta. Cave 2 vihara ( Image 1
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