complex urbarchitectonic structures of priština and novi pazar cities
... worldwide in a short period in the 1960s and 1970s. They had a great influence on the architecture of the time: Rudolph's project of enclosure to the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Alison and Peter Smithson's Golden Lane in Coventry, Lynn's and Smith's Park Hill in Sheffield, Bakema's and Van den Broek ...
... worldwide in a short period in the 1960s and 1970s. They had a great influence on the architecture of the time: Rudolph's project of enclosure to the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Alison and Peter Smithson's Golden Lane in Coventry, Lynn's and Smith's Park Hill in Sheffield, Bakema's and Van den Broek ...
Architecture and the City in the Ancient Near East
... as bearers of both textual and pictorial representations. These texts and visual narratives were effective tools in the construction of social identity and historical consciousness among the public. Especially throughout the history of the Near Eastern world, the construction of buildings coincid ...
... as bearers of both textual and pictorial representations. These texts and visual narratives were effective tools in the construction of social identity and historical consciousness among the public. Especially throughout the history of the Near Eastern world, the construction of buildings coincid ...
Sacred architecture
Sacred architecture (also known as religious architecture) is a religious architectural practice concerned with the design and construction of places of worship and/or sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples. Many cultures devoted considerable resources to their sacred architecture and places of worship. Religious and sacred spaces are amongst the most impressive and permanent monolithic buildings created by humanity. Conversely, sacred architecture as a locale for meta-intimacy may also be non-monolithic, ephemeral and intensely private, personal and non-public.Sacred, religious and holy structures often evolved over centuries and were the largest buildings in the world, prior to the modern skyscraper. While the various styles employed in sacred architecture sometimes reflected trends in other structures, these styles also remained unique from the contemporary architecture used in other structures. With the rise of Abrahamic monotheisms (particularly Christianity and Islam), religious buildings increasingly became centres of worship, prayer and meditation.The Western scholarly discipline of the history of architecture itself closely follows the history of religious architecture from ancient times until the Baroque period, at least. Sacred geometry, iconography and the use of sophisticated semiotics such as signs, symbols and religious motifs are endemic to sacred architecture.