The Giza Pyramids
Most likely responding initially to practical needs—such as restoring landmarks destroyed by the Nile’s annual flooding, estimating the volume of a stone block, or...
Mesopotamia: The Oval Temple
Without humans settling down more or less permanently at specific locations, the erection of large and complex edifices would have been an unimaginable feat;...
The Terra Amata Huts
Unlike clothes, buildings cannot be squeezed into the back of our closet or taken to the local charity shop when no longer in fashion;...
Architecture in Southern Gaul
Written sources of that period of time tell us that in Southern Gaul (as in Gaul in general) there were icons painted on wooden...
Architecture of churches in Southern France
To study the features of the ideological and artistic programs of the parish churches of Southern France, in particular the churches of the Languedoc-Roussillon...
Architecture is an extraordinarily multifaceted phenomenon
To understand the true essence of architecture, it is necessary to consider it from different sides, to determine what role it plays in society,...
Architectural objects
The primary space can be described as a part of a certain surface and the space above it in which the movement of the...
Synthesis of architectural form
Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England...
Architectural shaping in virtual reality
Discussing the issues of how an architect-designer can comprehend the geometric shapes of architectural objects and manipulate them, relying on structural and system methods...
Architecture and Applied Art of Byzantium
Architecture and applied art of Byzantium — "the golden bridge between East and West". The artistic culture and architecture of Byzantium is the result...
Deconstructivism
The fashion for a new style - deconstructivism - should reach us. The buildings whose creators follow this direction look as if the architect...
Early Renaissance Architecture
When, after the "Gothic reaction" of the second half of the XIV - beginning of the XV century, architects and artists again turned to...
Architecture in Ancient Rome
The exact year is known, the 30th BC, when the era of Hellenism ended. If you follow the line of the well-known plot, then...
Hindu architecture and Architecture in Islam
If we ignore the similarity of the structure of the Hindu temple with the structure of the body of the Purusha and look at...
Architecture in Ancient Egypt
Not so far from Mesopotamia, in North Africa, at about the same time, another great civilization appeared - the ancient Egyptian. It is also...
Architectural design tasks
The formation of the architectural scale required by the ensemble is primarily a matter of choosing a system of detailing its structures and spatial...
Minimalism and unusual architecture
The differences between the styles of "superdatch" and "Swiss box" are not absolute, which is proved by the works of Herzog and de Meiron...
Principles of composition of ensembles with Renaissance planning basis
The technique of combining the composition of ensembles with the Renaissance planning basis was that the secondary dominant was almost equated in height to...
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...
