Creative urban planning
Within the existing development of the city, it was decided to preserve the existing street layout with only partial changes. The overall composition of...
Efficiency in Architecture
It happens that a traveler returns from distant lands completely unrecognizable. This also happened to the skyscraper in its paranoid-critical journey across the Atlantic.
An...
Soft modernism
Before the Second World War, there was a clear distinction between future-oriented architecture and one that expressed "here" and "now". But after 1945, this...
Symmetry of the composition of buildings and complexes
In the XVIII century. the process of forming large architectural complexes was completed. The peculiar features of the ensemble development of these complexes are...
Industrial architecture of Russia
The feudal-serf system of Russia hindered the progress of industrial production. But, despite this, in the period under review, an industrial revolution began, which...
Architecture in artificial light
More recently, the panorama of the evening capital was drawn by strings of lanterns illuminating city highways and the chaotic light of Moscow windows....
Architecture of the XVII century .
In the XVII century, Polish influence significantly increased, as Belarus continues to be part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A large feudal magnate exporting bread...
Architecture from 1780 to 1812
In the period from the 1780s to 1812, the peculiarities of the classicism style are clearly revealed, the process of forming new types of...
Places of worship
Religious buildings acquire features that in many ways bring them closer to secular buildings. This applies primarily to churches-rotundas, rare in the previous time,...
Architecture of the XIV – first half of the XVI centuries
The Tatar-Mongol invasion was a huge disaster for the southern and southwestern lands of Russia, which delayed the development of the economy and culture...
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....
Ancient architecture: a reminder of Ancient Greece
Knossos Palace. Previously, the palace was of colossal size, and also had several floors. The complex was built in the form of a maze....
Historical motives in the perception of architectural heritage
Historical motives not only arise in the perception of architectural heritage, but are sometimes re-designed for the sake of creating specific associations.
A special kind...
Architecture of Northern Spain
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,...
The main styles in architecture
Architecture has always reflected periods of human existence, fashion and aesthetic ways. At the present stage of the development of civilization, a completely new...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
