Architectural design styles
February 11, 2014
The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed…
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Architectural arch styles
October 6, 2014
The name gives it away–Romanesque architecture is based on Roman architectural elements. It is the rounded Roman arch that is the literal basis…
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Ancient Roman Artists Name
March 14, 2015
Painting has always become the way of representing or showcasing different human emotions. The large discovery of the ancient paintings in cave…
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Ancient Roman Architecture
February 24, 2016
Influences As soon as Rome takes on importance politically and culturally - that is, as soon as adjoining Etruria has been subjugated and Carthage…
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Ancient Arches
August 25, 2016
By Martha Plotz, 01 Water is heavy stuff. When the ancient Romans undertook to build an aquaduct to carry fresh water from the mountains into…
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American House styles Architecture
December 12, 2015
Here is the grand sweep of American domestic architecture . . . from mud pueblos to solar-heated contemporaries, from log cabins to town houses…
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American home Architecture styles
October 19, 2015
A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch The American Foursquare or American…
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19th century Victorian Architecture
December 21, 2015
Queen Anne Style buildings in America came into vogue in the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the style of the moment…
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19th century British Architecture
July 29, 2016
The Industrial Revolution, underway by the middle of the 18th century and emerging first in England, is often cited as the single most important…
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18th century Architecture style
June 30, 2015
England entered the Eighteenth century looking beyond its borders. Coming out of a period of civil strife, England was now ready to participate…
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Frank Lloyd Wright style Architecture
July 5, 2018
1. “The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead don’t call him an architect.”…
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Gothic style Architecture
June 6, 2018
Characteristics of Gothic Architecture Gothic art evolved out of Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century up to the late 16th century…
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