Abstract
Lecture focuses on the architecture of Aegean Bronze Age cultures (3.-2. millennium BC) - Minoan, Mycenaean/Helladic and Cycladic. The matter includes: urban architecture with its typical features, fortifications, especially Late Mycenaean fortifications of Mycenae and Tyrinth, palace architecture (Minoan and Mycenaean with their differences and specific features) and well preserved cases of architecture on Santorini (ancient Thera).
Minoan palaces and the problem of their identification and relation to so-called villas is discussed as well. The part of lecture is focused on painted decoration of interiors and in some cases its relation to the architecture.