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... Orientation – the control of the effects of sun, wind and rainfall. Design – the modification of the effects of the natural forces such as porches, eaves, roofs, etc. Fenestration – control and distribution of windows for light, ventilation and heating. ...
... Orientation – the control of the effects of sun, wind and rainfall. Design – the modification of the effects of the natural forces such as porches, eaves, roofs, etc. Fenestration – control and distribution of windows for light, ventilation and heating. ...
20th Century Architecture New materials in use permitted larger
... Department store required broad, open, well-illuminated display spaces Ornamentation on the lower levels- windows were like pictures and had elaborate frames ...
... Department store required broad, open, well-illuminated display spaces Ornamentation on the lower levels- windows were like pictures and had elaborate frames ...
ByzantineArchitecture
... an ambitious building programme. He vastly enlarged the empire, but also decided to build the most magnificent building on the planet. His capital was packed with subject people from all around his vast empire – brand new people with enormous skills. ...
... an ambitious building programme. He vastly enlarged the empire, but also decided to build the most magnificent building on the planet. His capital was packed with subject people from all around his vast empire – brand new people with enormous skills. ...
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... such a project that called for large blocks of cell-like individual apartments stacked one on top of the other, with plans that included a living room, bedrooms and kitchen, as well as a garden terrace. Le Corbusier’s study of urbanism expanded beyond housing units, to the study of complete city lay ...
... such a project that called for large blocks of cell-like individual apartments stacked one on top of the other, with plans that included a living room, bedrooms and kitchen, as well as a garden terrace. Le Corbusier’s study of urbanism expanded beyond housing units, to the study of complete city lay ...
Conference on Architecture and Tourism: Fictions, Simulacra
... In a globalizing world, while all things that even seemingly matter have been becoming ubiquitous, or “melts into air,” as Marshall Berman would have it, architecture, at least for quite some time, have stayed solid and have not lost its eminence as a source of magnificence and amazement. This, to ...
... In a globalizing world, while all things that even seemingly matter have been becoming ubiquitous, or “melts into air,” as Marshall Berman would have it, architecture, at least for quite some time, have stayed solid and have not lost its eminence as a source of magnificence and amazement. This, to ...
Historical Features of the Tigris River in Baghdad Rusafa, which
... prominent design and planning, construction and decoration and Riyazh drilling on bricks and the use of architectural elements such as arcs and domes and Ewan in different patterns and employing them in buildings as elements of major construction environmental and aesthetic in mosques and religious ...
... prominent design and planning, construction and decoration and Riyazh drilling on bricks and the use of architectural elements such as arcs and domes and Ewan in different patterns and employing them in buildings as elements of major construction environmental and aesthetic in mosques and religious ...
Ottoman architecture
Ottoman architecture is the architecture of the Ottoman Empire which emerged in Bursa and Edirne in 14th and 15th centuries. The architecture of the empire developed from the earlier Seljuk architecture and was influenced by the Byzantine architecture, Iranian as well as Islamic Mamluk traditions after the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans. For almost 400 years Byzantine architectural artifacts such as the church of Hagia Sophia served as models for many of the Ottoman mosques. Overall, Ottoman architecture has been described as Byzantine architecture synthesized with architectural traditions of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.The Ottomans achieved the highest level architecture in their lands hence or since. They mastered the technique of building vast inner spaces confined by seemingly weightless yet massive domes, and achieving perfect harmony between inner and outer spaces, as well as articulated light and shadow. Islamic religious architecture which until then consisted of simple buildings with extensive decorations, was transformed by the Ottomans through a dynamic architectural vocabulary of vaults, domes, semi domes and columns. The mosque was transformed from being a cramped and dark chamber with arabesque-covered walls into a sanctuary of aesthetic and technical balance, refined elegance and a hint of heavenly transcendence.Today, one finds remnants of Ottoman architecture in certain parts of its former territories under decay.