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...
Revivalism
The Victorian period was the heyday of revivalist architecture, a way of building in which style was a question of reproducing the architecture of...
Orientalism
Western Europe became fascinated with “the Orient” in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as links with China and India became stronger. Few European...
Age of Reason
At the height of the Enlightenment, architects in France turned to an architecture that attempted to use pure forms, such as pyramids, cylinders and...
Neoclassicism
In the last few decades of the 18th century a new attitude to the ancient remains of Greece and Rome began to emerge. Archaeologists...
Rococo
Toward the end of the baroque period architects and, especially, interior designers turned away from the grandiose effects that sometimes dominated baroque architecture and...
Taste. Proportions the Beauty of Architecture
Today the term “taste” is often used vaguely to mean personal preference or ephemeral fashion. But in the 18th century the term was employed...
Industrial architecture
The industrial revolution brought new types of building, including factories and warehouses. Although based on older designs for buildings, such as mills, the factories...
Baroque
In the 17th and early 18th centuries a combination of religious change and the inventiveness of a number of architects in Italy and Central...
Palladianism
Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential architects of all time. His distinctive, severely classical style was developed in 16th-century Italy, but it...
Renaissance
The “Renaissance,” coming from the Italian word for rebirth, came about when artists turned their backs on the medieval world and sought a model...
Gothic
In the mid-12th century Abbot Suger of the French abbey of St. Denis commissioned a remodeling of his church. The building was constructed in...
Roman engineering
Roman architecture was distinctive because it brought highlydeveloped engineering skills to bear on large-scale buildings. TheRomans made huge strides in engineering, building great aqueducts,large...
The orders
In ancient Greece, probably around the sixth century BC, architects and stonemasons developed a system of design rules and guidelines that they could use...
What is Architecture
On the significance of architecture, in the western world, remain today , the concepts inherited from the past that rotate, in different ways and...
Organic Architecture
You may be familiar with the term 'organic' from the produce aisle of your grocery store. When it comes to architecture, however, 'organic' means...
Progress in engineering as a challenge for architects
The innovations and the development of engineering that gave an impetus to the Industrial Revolution also prepared the ground for revolutionary changes in the...
Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition
The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
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...
