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Ornamental symmetry and integral ornament
The conventional understanding of pointlessness is that we combine various basic lines, planes, surfaces and volumes with each other, regardless of what these parts...
The City Beautiful
There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
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The City Beautiful
There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
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Expressionism
The expressionist movement had its heyday in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. It brought dramatic new forms—curving walls and faceted domes, for...
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Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England in the 1960s, annual catalogues of recommended planning solutions for small residential buildings were published with accompanying schemes that make it possible to understand the features of numerous layouts.
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...
Architecture of railway stations
Russian Art Nouveau differs from Western European by the pitched roofs of the main building and the outbuildings of numerous turrets that were used...
Architecture of the second half of the XVI -first half of...
Since 1569, after the formation of a single Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ukrainian lands subject to Lithuania were included in the so-called crown lands, i.e....
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...
Streets, lanes and footpaths
Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception of the quality of place is shaped by what we...
Towns, townscapes and squares
An appreciation of landscape – the aesthetic quality of the countryside – has been part of our culture for at least two hundred years,...
The Art of Fine Line Tattooing: A History and Evolution*
For centuries, tattooing has been a way to express oneself and artfully decorate one's body. Nowadays, an incredible range of techniques provide endless possibilities...
Architects and Creative Work
"You could not help getting this sense of hope that architecture was ultimately poetry and art, transcending accommodation, shelter, and program." This statement...
Speyer Cathedral*
The beautiful Speyer Cathedral belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is almost the only representative of the old Romanesque style in architecture...
Green architecture
Architects are responding in different ways to issues surrounding carbon emissions, energy consumption and climate change. The resulting green architecture is partly about adopting...
