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The concept of completeness of the appearance of urban space
The history of architecture, presented by the traditional architectural school as an interconnected list of outstanding ensembles or objects, teaches us to see the...
Architectural embodiments of “ideas of symmetry”
All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition...
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Analysis of trapezoidal city squares
On the larger side of the trapezoid, along the axis of movement and symmetry of the square, the main dominant building of the ensemble...
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Architecture is not just a construction
Architecture is not only a construction, as the adherents of extreme constructive purism thought. "After all, our vision is looking for the elegant," says...
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All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition is presented as a constant search for similarity relations and connections between man and the...
Conquered by the Arabs in 711-713. In the 11th century. the Christian states of northern Spain returned part of the conquered territories, including Toledo, in 1085. 1212 - the defeat of the Moors in the battle of Las Navas...
The art of ornament – the laws of symmetry and rhythm
The task of creating a new spatial expressiveness is to depict an imaginary (imaginary) space with the help of an object. "For us, however,...
Architecture of buildings
A building is a ground structure that has an internal space designed
and adapted for a particular type of activity.
Requirements for buildings:
Functional expediency –...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture
What are the features of this style?
The traditions of the cross-dome system are preserved.
Local limestone is used, from the blocks of which...
Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...
The magic of the city. Igmil-Sins’s House
Today, one in two people live in cities in a world shaped by the civilization created within them. Most probably, all readers of this...
Perspective
An understanding of perspective is essential in order to gain a full appreciation of the aesthetic quality of towns, and is necessary in order...
Categorizing the Architectural Utopia in the Genre of Science Fiction
First of all I would like to start with a definition what science fiction architecture is, and more importantly what it is not. I...
Verbal Text in Architecture – A Text within a Text
From the semiotic viewpoint, architecture is not only transmedial (in which case its specimens in their constitution can be likened to verbal texts that...
Architectural Drawings New Uses in the Architectural Design Process
Architectural drawings role as a source of inspiration as well as a means for interpreting the past has always been key within the architectural...
