Architectural history

style of architecture

Castellane (; Provençal Occitan: Castelana) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. With a population of 1,470 (2019), it has the distinction of being France's least populated subprefecture, ahead of Largentière in Ardèche.

thumb|right|300px|The Villa Medici in Fiesole with early terraced hillside [[landscape by Leon Battista Alberti]] thumb|The Tamminiemi|Villa Tamminiemi, an [[Art Nouveau styled villa and house museum in Helsinki, Finland]]

architecture of the ancient Romans

architectural style

type of architecture

era of architecture

cultural movement from the 14th to 17th century

building style of the Baroque era

visual characteristics of a building

thumb|Mahabodhi Temple in India. Vihāra generally refers to a Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery for Buddhist renunciates, mostly in the Indian subcontinent. The concept is ancient and in early Pali texts, it meant any arrangement of space or facilities for dwellings. The term evolved into an architectural concept wherein it refers to living quarters for monks with an open shared space or courtyard, particularly in Buddhism. The term is also found in Jain monastic literature, usually referring to temporary refuge for wandering monks or nuns during the annual Indian monsoons. In modern Jaini

style of architecture

field of history focused on architecture

aspect of architecture

architectural style derived from the work of Andrea Palladio

thumb|upright|Illustration of various examples of balusters, in A Handbook of Ornament, by Franz S. Meyer thumb|upright|The term derives from the swelling form of the half-open flower of Punica granatum, in Italian balaustra

type of museum; museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors

The Manueline (, ), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries. Manueline architecture incorporates maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral. This innovative style synthesizes aspects of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture with original motifs and influences of the Plateresque, Mudéjar, Italian, and Flemish architecture. It marks the transition from Late Gothic t

building material used in construction during the late Roman Republic

architectural support

kind of fortress

architectural style that emerged in the 1970s

series of architectural revival styles

the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture

architectural style

art style of Europe between the fall of Rome and the 11th century

sub-type of Romanesque architecture

architectural style historically developed in the western Islamic world

preservation of items of historical significance

proceedings of a conference

masonry technique of texturing

thumb|right|Location of the adyton within a temple thumb|The adyton in the Temple of Apollo in Didyma

architectural style

thumb|upright|Trilithon at Stonehenge

thumb|William Henry Playfair, [[University of Edinburgh: bevelled edges of each stone block emphasise the voussoirs, which have a curved base and together form a semi-circle at the top of each arch.]] A voussoir (UK: ; US: ) is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, which is used in building an arch or vault. thumb|Joggled voussoir arch, located at the Mausoleum of Theodoric in [[Ravenna, Italy. (520 CE)]] Each voussoir is formed in a specific way to fit within the arch or vault created. Normally, different colored stones are shaped to fit together in a curved way that relies on the balanc

art of the Franks under the Merovingian dynasty

principal courtyard of a mansion or palace

mausoleum in Tus, Iranian national heritage site

arches with intradoses that are full semicircles; shape common in ancient Roman architecture

military barracks in Jerusalem

international charta for the conservation and restoration of historic buildings

Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580)

architecture style

Roman villa set in the open countryside, often as the hub of a large agricultural estate

thumb|Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in [[Spain. Churrigueresque Obradoiro façade]] thumb|Basilica and Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Lima Churrigueresque (; Spanish: Churrigueresco), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main façade of a building.

thumb|In Brussels, many historic buildings were demolished and replaced with generic modern ones. This high-rise stands on the site of [[Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple/Volkshuis.]]

thumb|upright=1.3|In the early 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank tore down its head office, the in [[Prague, and had it rebuilt behind the preserved façade on a design by architect Josef Gočár, visible in the background]]

structures dated about 10,000 to 2,000 BC

pre-Columbian architecture in South America

architectural style

Western Asian architectural style

architectural style

use of visual styles in architecture that echo the style of a previous architectural era

architectural style which evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great

architectural style in current or former colonies

architecture of the Achaemenid Empire

art of the Visigoths

manifesto on restoration of historic monuments

300px|thumb|The ophel of Jerusalem. The Kidron Valley and [[Mount of Olives are in the background.]]

late-Gothic architectural style in the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella