ANCIENT MATERIALS
- Wood
- Clay
- Limestone
- Sandstone
- Calcite
- Schists
- Lapis Lazuli / Blue Stone
- Copper
- Tin
- Bronze
- Gold
- Silver
- Granite
- Marble
ANCIENT TECHNIQUES
- Plaster
- Pillars and Beams
- Stone Polishing
- Jewellery
- Relief Sculpture (Raised and Sunk)
- Pigments and Painting
ROMAN AGE (753BC-476AD)
- Opus Caementicium/ Concrete
- Enplastrum / Plaster
- Plumbum and Plumbing
- Roads, Aqueducts, Sewers
MIDDLE AGES (500-1300)
- Tapestry: Carpets and Arras
- Chinese Firearms 13th Century
- The Eyeglasses 13th Century
RENAISSANCE (1300-1400)
- Venetian Glass
- Italian Maiolica
- Marqueterie / Marquetry
- Gutenberg’s Printing Press 1440
BAROQUE AND ROCOCO’ (1500-1700)
- Boiserie
- Gypsum Plaster (plaster of Paris)
- Porcelain
- Chinoserie
INDUSTRIALISM (1800)
- First Industrial Revolution 1760-1840
- Steam Power and Factory System
- Textile Industry
- Agricultural Revolution
- The Invention of Hydraulic Concrete
- Portland Cement 1824
- Michael Thonet (1796– 1871)
- The Invention of Curved Wood 1830
- The Birth of Photography 1826-1834
- Chance Brothers and Cylinder Process Glass 1832
- Second Industrial Revolution 1840-1870
- Reinforced Concrete 1849
- Auguste e Louis Lumière
- The Invention of Cinema 1895
- Georges Méliès 1861-1938
- Cinematic Special Effects 1896 e il 1914
- Arthur Melbourne-Cooper 1874–1961
- The Birth of Animation 1899
- Edward de Smedt’s Asphalt 1870
MODERN (1900)
- August Perret
- Rue Franklin Apartments (1902)
- Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913)
- Ingalls Building, First Reinforced Concrete Skyscraper (1903)
- Petroleum
- Plastic Materials
CONTEMPORARY (1900-2000)
- Personal Computers
- CAD Computer Aided Design
- 3D Applications
- Digital Design
- Digital Art
- Global Internet
- Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism
- Recycled Materials
- Heating, Cooling and Ventilation
- Solar Panels
- Wind Turbines
- Waste Management
- PLM Product Life-Cycle Management
- BIM Building Information Technology
- Web 2.0
- Mobile Revolution
- Responsive Web Design
- Cloud and Sharing