Architectural style constitutes a mode of classifying architecture largely by morphological characteristics in terms of form, techniques, materials, etc. However it is not a holistic way of understanding architectural works because of its emphasis on style. It overlaps with and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture, but it is slightly different in its emphasis. While in architectural history, the study of, for instance, Gothic architecture would include all the aspects of the cultural context that went in ...

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Around 1900 a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new social demands and technological possibilities. The work of Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new. The International Style as such blossomed in 1920s Western Europe. Researchers find significant contemporary common ground among the Dutch de Stijl ...

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Mahabodhi Temple is constructed of brick and is one the oldest brick structures to have survived in eastern India. It considered to a fine example of Indian brickwork, and was highly influential in the development of later architectural traditions. According UNESCO, “the present temple is one of the earliest and most imposing structures built entirely in brick from the late Gupta period”. Mahabodhi Temple's central towers rise to 55 meteres, and were heavily renovated in the 19th century. The central tower is surrounde ...

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Around 1900 a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new social demands and technological possibilities. The work of Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new. The international style as such blossomed in 1920s Western Europe. Researchers find significant contemporary common ground among the Dutch de Stijl ...

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The same striving towards simplification, honesty and clarity are identifiable in US architects of the same period, notably in the work of Louis Sullivan in Chicago, and the west-coast residences of Irving Gill. Frank Lloyd Wright's career in the 1900s and 1910s parallels and influences the work of the European modernists, particularly via the Wasmuth Portfolio, but he refused to be categorized with them. In 1922, the competition for the Tribune Tower and its famous second-place entry by Eli ...

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Australian Residential Architectural Styles can generally be categorised as follows. There are overlaps between periods: Old Colonial Period 1788 - c. 1840 Colonial 1788 - 1850 Georgian 1800 - 1850 Colonial Regency 1820 - 1860 Greek Revival 1830 - 1850 Victorian Period c. 1840 - c. 1890 Gothic Revival 1840 - 1880 Early Victorian 1845 - 1865 Mid Victorian 1865 - 1880 Late Victorian 1880 - 1900 Italianate 1865 - 1890 < ...

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Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine empire. The empire emerged gradually after AD 330, when Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium, which was later renamed Constantinople and is now Istanbul. Byzantine architecture - General considerations. Early Byzantine architecture is essentially a continuation of Roman architecture. Prime examples survive mostly in Ravenna and Constantinople and include the churches of St Irene, St Sophia, and Sts Sergius and Bakchus, the ...

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Brutalism is related and similar to (and often confused with) the modernist, minimalist and internationalist styles of architecture. All of these styles make heavy use of repetition and regularity in their features, but brutalist designs also often incorporate striking, abject irregularities as well. Another common theme in brutalist designs is the exposition of the building's functions -- ranging from their structure and services to their actual human use -- in the exterior of the building. In other words, Brutalist style is " ...

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Architecture (classical Greek: αρχή, 'start', τέχνη, 'craftsmanship') is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating furniture. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the ...

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Australian architectural style classification taken from Apperley, Irving and Reynolds (1989): Australian architectural styles - Old Colonial Period 1788 - c. 1840. Old Colonial Georgian; Old Colonial Regency; Old Colonial Grecian; Old Colonial Gothick Picturesque Hyde Park Barracks, designed by Francis Greenway; Old Colonial Georgian; drawing by Hardy Wilson in 1914 See also:

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The culture of Spain has roots in Iberian and Latin influences, Catholicism, Moorish Islam, tension between the centralized Castilian state and its regions, and its minority peoples. In addition, the history of the nation and its Mediterranean climate and geography have played strong roles in shaping its culture. Culture of Spain - Regionalism. A strong sense of regional identity exists in many regions of Spain. These regions or nationalities — even those that least identify themselves as Spanish — have ...

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Queen-Anne-style buildings in America came into vogue in the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the 'style of the moment'; the popularity of high Queen Anne style waned as in the early 1900s, however some elements, such as wraparound front porch, continued to be found on buildings into the 1920s. In America, Queen Anne generally refers to an era of style, rather than a specific formulaic style in its own right. Unlike its British counterpart's use of "crisp white trim" (see above), Queen Anne in America eschewed whit ...

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The style emphasizes verticality and features almost skeletal stone structures with great expanses of glass, sharply pointed spires, cluster columns, flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, pointed arches using the ogive shape, and inventive sculptural detail. These features are all the consequence of a focus on large stained-glass windows that allowed more light to enter than was possible with older styles. To achieve this "light" style, flying buttresses were used as a means of support to enable higher ceilings and slender columns. Many of these features had already appeared, for example i ...

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The Latin cross plan takes as its model the Roman Basilica. It consists of a nave and two sections half its size flanking it, and the altar stands at the far end (the short end or "head" of the cross). Also, cathedrals influenced or commissioned by Justinian employed the Byzantine style of domes and a Greek cross (resembling a plus sign), centering attention on the altar at the center of the church. Architecture in the Early Middle Ages may be divided into Early Christian, Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian. While th ...

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In reviving, the glories of the Achaemenian past, the Sassanians were no mere imitators. The art of this period reveals an astonishing virility. In certain respects it anticipates features later developed during the Islamic period. The conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great had inaugurated the spread of Hellenistic art into Western Asia; but if the East accepted the outward form of this art, it never really assimilated its spirit. Already in the Parthian period Hellenistic art was being interpreted freely by the peoples of the Near East a ...

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The designations of styles in French Gothic architecture are as follows: Early Gothic High Gothic Rayonnant Late Gothic or Flamboyant style These divisions are effective, but debatable. Because Gothic cathedrals were built over several successive periods, each period not necessarily following the wishes of previous periods, the dominant architectural style changes throughout a particular building. Consequently, it is often difficult to declare one buildi ...

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The designations of styles in English architecture still follows conventions of labels given them by antiquaries in the 18th century: Early English (ca 1180 - 1275) Decorated (ca 1275 - 1380 ) Perpendicular (ca 1380 - 1520 ). Early English: Salisbury Cathedral Wells Cathedral Westminster Abbey Decorated or "Flamboyant": Exeter Cathedral See also:

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As early as the building of Constantine's churches in Palestine there were two chief types of plan in use: the basilican, or axial, type, represented by the basilica at the Holy Sepulchre, and the circular, or central, type, represented by the great octagonal church once at Antioch. Those of the latter type we must suppose were nearly always vaulted, for a central dome would seem to furnish their very raison d'etre. The central space was sometimes surrounded by a very thick wall, in which deep recesses, to the interior, were formed, as at th ...

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The architecture is massive in style with towering exterior walls surrounding a complex of courtyards, temples, administrative offices, and monk housing. Distinctive features include high inward sloping walls of brick and stone painted white with few or no windows in the lower sections of the wall use of a surrounding red stripe near the top of the walls (perhaps punctuated by large gold circles) use of Chinese-style flared roofs atop interior temples massive entry doors made of wood and iron interior ...

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