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Up to c. 500 CE

Ancient Civilizations
Medieval Worlds

Walls of faith, towers of power. Architecture shaped by belief, trade, and the shifting orders of medieval societies.

c. 1500 - 1800 CE

lobalization & The Colonial Era
Ancient Civilizations

Timeless stone, lost empires. The earliest traces of humanity’s desire to build and to leave something behind.

c. 500 - 1500 CE

Medieval Worlds
Globalization & The Colonial Era

Global networks carved into stone and timber. Buildings that tell complex stories of trade, empire, and cultural exchange.

Industrial & Imperial Age

Iron, glass, brick. The architecture of machines, expansion, and new urban landscapes, a world accelerating into modernity

c. 1800 - 1900 CE

Industrial & Imperial Age
Decolonization & Identity

New nations, new forms. Architecture as a tool of independence, identity, and post-colonial futures.

c. 1945 - 1975 CE

Decolonization & Identity

c. 1900 - 1945 CE

War & Modernism
War & Modernism

Ruins and revolutions. Structures born of conflict, utopian visions, and the desire to rebuild from the ashes.

c. 1975 - 2000 CE

Globalization & Postmodernity
Globalization & Postmodernity

Connected cities, layered meanings. Buildings that mirror a fragmented, globalizing world, playful, critical, eclectic.

Contemporary heritage

Buildings of today, already telling their own stories. Architecture shaped by our time. What do we choose to value and remember.

c. 2000 - present

Contemporary heritage

Future

Emerging Heritage
Emerging Heritage

Digital spaces, new materials, and evolving ideas of what a building can be, shaping the stories we will tell in the future.

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