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A new view in the history of architecture
The Romantic era in the history of architecture, which fundamentally changed the way Western culture perceived its art and architecture, was born 200 years ago alongside the first industrial age. Late 18th-century revolutionary France and America took the noble republics of the Greeks and Romans as their architectural models. But the hard rationalism, clarity and [...]
Exoticisms in Architecture
As historicist styles spread, European architecture began showing the tendency to employ decorative and structural elements drawn from the art and architecture of the East. In the period between the English expansion in India during the first half of the 18th century and the French conquest of Algeria in 1830, what had initially been idle [...]
