Architectural history Architectural history Abbott Lowell Cummings (1923-) is a noted architectural historian and genealogist, best known for his study of New England architecture. He currently lives in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abbott Lowell Cummings"
The Giza Necropolis stands on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments is located some eight km inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, some 20 km southwest of Cairo city centre. This Ancient Egyptian necropolis consists of the Pyramid of Khufu (also known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops), the somewhat smaller Pyramid of Khafre (or Kephren), and the relatively modest-sized Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinus), along with a number of smaller satellite edifices, known as "queens" pyramids, and the Great Sphinx. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Egyptian architecture"
An ancient monument is an early historical structure or monument (e.g., an archaeological site) worthy of preservation and study due to archaeological or heritage interest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient monument"
Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid- 5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anglo-Saxon architecture"
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects. The main members of the group were Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene. The pamphlet Archigram I brought out in 1961 proclaimed their ideas. Committed to a 'high tech', light weight, infrastructural approach that was focussed towards survival technology, the group experimented with clip-on technology, throwaway environment, space capsules and mass-consumer imagery. Their works offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age, however social and environmental issues were left unaddressed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archigram"
Architectural history studies the evolution and history of architecture across the world through a consideration of various influences- artistic, cultural, political, economic and technological. In general, the question is one of relating meaning (intangible functions, purposes, symbols) with the built environment (material tables, windows, roofs, paths) through the necessities of life (food, work, communion etc.) within the historical context. Architectural history, like any other form of historical knowledge, is subject to the limitations and potentialities of history as a discipline. Consequently there have been a wide range of perspectives in the study of architecture, most of them Western. ...more on Wikipedia about "Architectural history"
Architecture in Kievan Rus dates from the its Christianisation in 988. The style of Kievan Rus architecture developed soon after greatly influenced by Byzantine architecture with the main architectural works being Orthodox churches. Early churches were mainly made of wood with the simplest form of church becoming known as a cell church. Major cathedrals often featured scores of small domes, which led some art historians to take this as an indication of what the pagan Slavic temples should have looked like. ...more on Wikipedia about "Architecture of Kievan Rus" Please visit again www.shortopedia.com
Rural residents preferred homes built from milled lumber and constructed these instead of sod or log homes when they could afford the materials. Railroads delivered building supplies to the nearest town. Grant Wood's famous American Gothic painting takes its name from the upper window in the farmhouse behind the couple. The arched window was a popular 1880s design element sometimes known as "carpenter gothic." ...more on Wikipedia about "Architecture of the United States"
The Basilica of San Vitale is the most famous monument of Ravenna, Italy and is one of the most important examples of Byzantine art and architecture in western Europe. It was begun by Bishop Ecclesio in 527, and completed by the 27th Bishop of Ravenna, Maximian in 548 during the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. The building combines Roman elements (the dome, shape of doorways, stepped towers) with Byzantine (polygonal apse, capitals, narrow bricks, etc). However, the Basilica is most famous for its wealth of Byzantine mosaics, the largest and best preserved outside of Constantinople itself. The church is of extreme importance in Byzantine art, as it is the only major church from the period of Emperor Justinian to survive virtually intact to the present day, and it is also thought to reflect the design of the Byzantine Imperial Palace Audience Chamber, of which nothing at all survives. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basilica of San Vitale"
Greek architecture before Alexander the Great ...more on Wikipedia about "Classical architecture"
A column in architecture and structural engineering is part of a structure whose purpose is to transmit through compression the weight of the structure. Other compression members are often termed columns because of the similar stress conditions. Columns can be either compounded of parts or made as a single piece. Columns are frequently used to support beams or arches on which the upper parts of walls or ceilings rest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Column"
Cour d'Honneur, sometimes literally translated as "Court of Honour", is the architectural term for defining a three-sided courtyard, created when the main central corps de logis is flanked by symmetrical advancing secondary wings, containing minor rooms. The Château of Versailles (illustration) and Blenheim Palace (plan) both feature such entrance courts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cour d'Honneur"
Dzong architecture is a distinctive type of fortress architecture found in the former and present Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas, most notably Bhutan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dzong architecture"
The Friends of Friendless Churches is a charitable body which was set up in the UK in 1957. It was established by Mr Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, a Welshman, with the sole purpose of saving disused but beautiful old places of worship. The charity is selective in deciding which churches to adopt and save from demolition, decay and unsympathetic conversion. To qualify they must be of architectural and historic interest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friends of Friendless Churches"
Historic preservation is the theory and practice of creatively maintaining the historic built environment and controlling the landscape component of which it is an integral part. The Secretary of the Interior of the U.S. government defines the historic environment as districts, sites, buildings, structures, objects, and landscapes which are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Historic preservation"
Incan architecture is the most significant pre-Columbian architecture in South America. The Incas inherited an architectural legacy from Tiwanaku, founded in the second century B.C. in present day Bolivia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Incan architecture"
Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. By the 1940s these styles had been consolidated and identified as the International Style and became the dominant way of building for several decades in the twentieth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Modern architecture"
Nazi architecture was an integral part of the Nazi party's plans to create a cultural and spiritual rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nazi architecture"
Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC, initially in the Levant ( Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards. There are early Neolithic cultures in Southeast Anatolia, Syria and Iraq by 8000 BC, and food-producing societies first appear in southeast Europe by 7000 BC, and Central Europe by c. 5500 BC (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the Starčevo-Koros (Cris), Linearbandkeramic, and Vinča). With very small exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great Lakes region), the peoples of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology up until the time of European contact. ...more on Wikipedia about "Neolithic architecture"
The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries. They introduced large numbers of castles and fortifications including Norman keeps, and at the same time monasteries, abbeys, churches and cathedrals, in a style characterised by round arches (particularly over windows and doorways) and massive proportions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Norman architecture"
The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s. The Office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among its creations are the well-known State, War, and Navy building (now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building) in Washington, DC, the San Francisco Mint Building, and smaller post offices that have served communities for decades, many recognized as National Historic Landmarks, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, or designated as local landmarks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office of the Supervising Architect"
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The Ontario Heritage Act allows municipalities and the provincial government to designate properties in the Province of Ontario, Canada as being of " cultural heritage value or interest". Once a property has been designated, a property owner must apply to the local municipality for a permit to undertake alterations to any of the identified heritage elements of the property or to demolish any buildings or structures on the property. The Act also allows for the designation of heritage conservation districts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ontario Heritage Act"
An open air museum is a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors. Like other museums, an open air museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. Most open air museums specialize in the collection and re-erection of old buildings at large out-door sites, usually in settings of re-created landscapes of the past. Most of them may therefore justly be described as building museums. Most open air museums are located in regions where wooden architecture prevails, as wooden structures may be translocated without substantial loss of authenticity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Open air museum"
The Palazzo della Cancelleria ("Palace of the Chancellery", meaning the Papal Chancellery) in Rome is situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palazzo della Cancelleria"
Renaissance Architecture: The cultural movement called the Renaissance (which literally means re-birth) was just that in architecture, a rebirth of the Roman traditions of design recognized by contemporaries in the term all'Antica, "in the Antique manner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Renaissance architecture"
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