Contemporary Architecture

Burnham and Bennett, new plan for Chicago

The City Beautiful

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There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City

Revivalism

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The Victorian period was the heyday of revivalist architecture, a way of building in which style was a question of reproducing the architecture of...
Pavilion at Drottningholm, Sweden

Orientalism

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Western Europe became fascinated with “the Orient” in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as links with China and India became stronger. Few European...
Boullée’s Newton monument

Age of Reason

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At the height of the Enlightenment, architects in France turned to an architecture that attempted to use pure forms, such as pyramids, cylinders and...
Catholic church of St. Hedwig in Berlin

Neoclassicism

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In the last few decades of the 18th century a new attitude to the ancient remains of Greece and Rome began to emerge. Archaeologists...
Architecture Rococo

Rococo

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Toward the end of the baroque period architects and, especially, interior designers turned away from the grandiose effects that sometimes dominated baroque architecture and...
Decorum

Taste. Proportions the Beauty of Architecture

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Today the term “taste” is often used vaguely to mean personal preference or ephemeral fashion. But in the 18th century the term was employed...
Smelting iron

Industrial architecture

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The industrial revolution brought new types of building, including factories and warehouses. Although based on older designs for buildings, such as mills, the factories...
Trompe l’oeil

Baroque

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In the 17th and early 18th centuries a combination of religious change and the inventiveness of a number of architects in Italy and Central...
The villa

Palladianism

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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...
Vitruvian proportions

Renaissance

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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

Gothic

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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...
The Pantheon

Roman engineering

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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...
Vitruvius and the orders

The orders

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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

What is Architecture

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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

Organic Architecture

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You may be familiar with the term 'organic' from the produce aisle of your grocery store. When it comes to architecture, however, 'organic' means...
Severn River in Coalbrookdale

Progress in engineering as a challenge for architects

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The innovations and the development of engineering that gave an impetus to the Industrial Revolution also prepared the ground for revolutionary changes in the...
L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition

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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

Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

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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...