civilizations and periods of time that were defined by their art and their architecture. For example, the Greeks had their classical style in Sculpture and laid a foundation for early places of worship and soon after the rise of Ancient Rome were known for their improvements in sculpture and their even greater strides of innovation when in came to architecture. They made some the most revolutionary advancements in architecture still until this day. Most know of the french Gothic and the Renaissance
Gothic architecture. “The 11th to 15th centuries saw a great surge of the Christian Church within Europe which was emphasized by the persuasiveness of the Crusades. The growing population of the Church increased the demand for the increased presence in architectural monuments and during the Romanesque and Gothic periods, a great cathedral construction boom occurred across Europe. The Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles were distinctive in not only the massiveness of the Romanesque monuments
Europe. It lasted between 1000 A.D.E to 1500 A.D.E. Many things were invented that helped revolutionize Europe and some still help us today. It was the time of new agriculture, the revival of trade, the growth of cities, the rise of industry and guilds, papal states, new rulers, new religious orders, new architecture, universities, vernacular literature, and The Black Death. In the Early Middle Ages, Europe had a small population. In the High Middle Ages, the population doubled from 38 million to
very little to do with the architecture that was predominantly used from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. In fact the term “Gothic” was coined by Renaissance Italians as a derogatory term referring to the Goths or Visigoths who were vanquished by Clovis in the sixth century and left no monumental trace of their invasion and therefore had no influence on what is now remembered as Gothic architecture. Despite the negative connotation behind this style of architecture, it has had an enormous impact
development of the Romanesque yet it was Renaissance humanists who first used it as a disparaging term to spell it out what they noticed as the barbaric structures. With Gothic sculpture being seen through a wide variety of perspectives it is regarded as very difficult to appropriately specify what Gothic means in postmodern contemporary society today. It provided a fresh concentration for the representation of dynamics and
the twin tower starts in October. …” In the early 19th century, Gothic Revival architecture style accompanied by immigration imported to Canada from Britain and United States. The style first appears in Quebec, the French speaking area, as the first early Gothic church rose in Ile-de-France. And Gothic Revival becomes the major style gradually influences almost whole Canadian architectures. By definition, Gothic Revival, a term first used in England in the mid-19th century to describe buildings
Spanish Colonial Revival, which includes elements of Romanesque Revival as well as Moorish Revival and Southwestern elements with the newest style of the period known as Art Deco Modern Streamline. Constructed at the tail end of the glamour and opulence associated with the railway romanticist era, it has been credited by many as the last great train station ever built, and it may also be the only one built during the height of the art deco era (Solomon 2015 p 34-35).
The Enlightenment’s secularized emphasis on rationality, rather than religion, fueled artists’ renewed interests in classical antiquity, as the geometric harmony of classical art and architecture seemed to embody Enlightenment ideals (Gardner 847). At the same time, the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the mid-eighteenth century turned men’s thoughts to Antiquity (Praeger 382). In 1764, Winkelmann wrote his well-known History of
Subtle Gentrification of Sunset Park Sunset Park is located in the western part of Brooklyn. The 24.5-acre public Sunset Park was founded in the 1890s. The park’s elevated location allows visitors spectacular views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty. Sunset Park is said to be one of Brooklyn’s most heterogeneous neighborhoods, composing of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Chinese. Located west of 5th Avenue is the most populated Hispanic area, while the center of the Chinese population extends
introduction Architecture is the study of the building and its environment, and it aims to summarize the experience of human construction activities in order to guide the creation of architectural design, construct some kind of shape in the environment and so on.Content architecture typically includes technical and artistic aspects.Architectonic is defined as “resembling architecture, especially in its highly organized manner ortechnique of structure”in dictionary.com.In other words,it talks how