Wikipedia article about Megalithic Temples of Malta
Ethiopia’s churches and monasteries, built on hilltops or hewn out of cliff faces, are celebrated in a new book, Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom
a Temple-theater complex discovered only at the beginning of the 2000s in Monte San Nicola, in Pietravairano of Caserta province. Lying at 410 meters high in the Sannio area, dates back to the late Roman Republican period, 2nd-1st century BC.
Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life.
Listen to the Episode "Discovering the Lost City of Petra" Listen and subscribe on iTunes Other Ways to Listen and Subscribe The story of the Lost City of Petra begins with the story of the Nabataeans, nomadic traders who eventually settled in Edomite territory around 2 B.C. The Nabataeans had traveled everywhere and picked up
Here are the 30 most beautiful photos of architectural wonders around the world, as shared by this online architecture Reddit group. There are so many beautiful architectural wonders around the world that deserves to be
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With its rows of thousands of standing stones, Carnac, on the south coast of Brittany, has long fascinated man. Find out more about this magical place...
Orvieto Cathedral is luxuriant, even overwhelming Gothic cathedral with one of the most magnificent facades in the world. Constructed in 1290 - 1591.
One of the most interesting things about studying history is learning about the marvelous things that our ancestors created. But it can be frustrating not to be able to see them. One picture is worth a thousand words, as they say; and while there have been many things written about these awesome historical monuments, not everyone can imagine how they actually would've looked. But some artists actually put in the effort to recreate history in image form, and not only that, they bring this long-lost past into the present and try to imagine what it would look like if it had survived to this day.
THE MONASTERY OF BATALHA, Leiria, Portugal built 1386
A diagram of the Parthenon, Athens and Plans of Greek Temples: Greek Architecture. 1924 World Architecture. This is a two sided print - first side are the diagrams of the complex. On the reverse side a photograph. This beautiful published lithograph was rescued from a textbook on the history of architecture This print is printed on a single page that measures 9.25 by 5.75 inches. The page is in excellent shape. It would look lovely matted and framed and displayed in your living room or study. Come find other wonderful things in my shop: jbling.etsy.com
Graphic History of Architecture
The theory of profiles from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is subtly distinct from the theory of the architectural orders. Francesco di Giorgio initiated the topic with his analogy of cornice and facial profiles. Michelangelo further exploited the conceit, while also developing the formal, particularly skiagraphical, potential of mouldings. In the seventeenth century, Vincenzo Scamozzi set the archaeological findings of architects into a framework of rhetoric, which furnished terms for formal analysis, audience reception, and ornamental affects. Rhetoric also encouraged profiles to be understood in terms of symmetry and decorum, so that the composition befitted its place within the genre of the order and the building. If the rhetorical model was applied to profiles, it could also be applied to architecture as a whole, in which case profiles were the equivalent to the rhetorical category of elocutio, which was the context for Boffrand’s treatment of profiles in the eighteenth century. And if profiles spoke, they could have character, as Jacques François Blondel would so famously demonstrate soon after. In contrast, William Chambers saw mouldings in terms of the expression of weight, an idea so appealing to Francesco Milizia that he copied Chambers’s entire account of the topic into his own Principii. Chambers’s implicit structural rationalism, however, was not so much a message from the future as a statement of the desirability of coherence, with each part performing its allotted role, in keeping with the rhetorical principle that expression must both fit together and be fitted to its purpose. The paper argues that rather than being minor details, mouldings encapsulated wider theories of expression — ‘the signature of architecture’.
When this book was first published in 1930, there was no shortage of excellent books dealing with the architectural styles of ancient Egypt; no book of any significance, however, discussed in detail the actual construction methods used to erect some of the world's most colossal and enduring structures.This profusely illustrated volume remedied that situation by providing the first important description and analysis of Egyptian building practices, which differed radically from those of classical, medieval or modern architecture. Based on thirty years of research and investigation, much of it firsthand, the present work offers a detailed examination of Egyptian quarrying methods, transportation of stone, foundations, mortar, techniques for dressing and laying blocks of stone, pyramid construction, facing, sculpturing and painting masonry, brickwork, Egyptian mathematics and much more.Nearly 270 photographs and other illustrations bring the text to life, providing superb pictorial documentation of actual sites and excavations, quarries, building plans, architects' diagrams and elevations and a myriad of construction details. Also presented are such evocative materials as a map for gold miners in the time of Seti I, photographs of tool marks left by ancient quarry workers, mason's guidelines on a column in the Great Hall at Karnak, a scene of workmen polishing a sphinx and other small details that bridge the centuries and remind us that flesh-and-blood human beings sweated and toiled to accomplish the marvelous technical feats so well described here.For any student of ancient Egypt, this will be an enlightening and fascinating survey. For architects, engineers, and students of the history of technology, the book offers a revealing picture of early techniques of monumental construction. 125 photographs. 144 line illustrations.
Archaeology has a complicated and dynamic past, rather than a single, specific start. the history of archaeology is divided into five phases.
This building is the incarnation of the idea of perspective. Perspective is an angle of looking at the phenomenon we call life.
Graphic History of Architecture
Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.
