From luxury homes to simple homes, there are endless choices with the plethora of architectural designs and genres used in home building nowadays. You also have choice to build your own custom home instead of buying a new home. Looking for customized, unique and magnificent home on your own will not be easy. [...]

Renaissance architecture in the history of architecture began in the Republican city of Florence with the revolutionary work of Filippo Brunelleschi at the beginning of the 15th century. His buildings were conceived not so much as a revival of the ancient Roman heritage but rather as a reassertion of Italian values to counter the preference [...]

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Built in two phases in 1903-6 the Vienna Post Office Savings Bank is Otto Wagner’s most technically advanced building and most mature work of architecture. It epitomizes the state of modern architecture in Vienna in the early years of this century with its extensive use of new materials, especially aluminium, its neat rational structure and [...]

Early in the 18th century Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of St Petersburg. Russia was beginning to open itself to Europe, and St Petersburg was the ‘window’ looking in that direction. The city took on a Western style, brought there and applied by Italian architects and an international collection of artists. Among the [...]

Architecture provides shelter and facilitates many different human activities. It also expresses cultural values and it is as champions of traditional values that classical architects returned to the international arena in the late 1970s and 1980s, Although classicism had never entirely disappeared from the architectural scene, it had clearly receded in importance after World War [...]

The extraordinary period of invention in the history of architecture ended as the increasingly hot, dry climate burnt the fields and desiccated the northern French vineyards which had funded much of this work. As the population continued to increase in spite of worsening conditions, ordinary people became poorer and wealth was increasingly concentrated among the [...]

The pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen, one of the great masterpieces of the Baroque in the history of architecture, was completed in 1772, the same year as the Coalbrookdale iron bridge. Today the bridge must receive nearly as many pilgrims, as it symbolizes the new industrial age - the birth of our times. Although a pioneering [...]

Hellenistic Architecture was closely related to Alexander the Great in the history of architecture. Early in the 5th century BC, although the defeat of the invading Persians gave the Greek people unchallenged prosperity and established them as the major power in the eastern Mediterranean, the individual states which composed the Greek nation never succeeded [...]

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Le Corbusier was a prolific writer and an accomplished painter as well as an architect in the history of architecture who produced an imposing and influential body of work. During the decade of the 1920s he executed a series of designs for private villas that crystalized the International Style. When, in 1903, Lutyens declared “In [...]

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