Architecture

26 09, 2017

Medieval architecture – Gothic and Romanesque – Europe

By |2019-09-04T05:43:03-07:00September 26th, 2017|Medieval|3 Comments

Cloister at Moissac (ca. 1100 AD, southern France) The first part of the Middle Ages saw very little building of anything but houses in northern Europe, as people struggled to adjust to the fall of [...]

11 09, 2017

What is a ziggurat? Mesopotamian architecture

By |2019-09-05T06:00:38-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on What is a ziggurat? Mesopotamian architecture

Remains of the ziggurat at Warka, in Iraq, 3000 BC (before it was reconstructed) Like the Egyptians at the same time, Bronze Age Sumerians and Iranians around 3000-2500 BC devoted a lot of energy to building [...]

11 09, 2017

Parthian and Sassanid architecture – West Asia

By |2019-09-05T06:00:43-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Parthian and Sassanid architecture – West Asia

Parthian architecture - the so-called Arch of Sapor - Parthians - Ctesiphon, Iraq, probably about 500 AD Romans and Parthians About 100 BC, the Hellenistic Greek kingdoms gave way to [...]

11 09, 2017

West Asian architecture – Ancient Mesopotamian architecture

By |2019-09-05T06:00:48-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian architecture – Ancient Mesopotamian architecture

Mesopotamian architecture: The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon, built during the Neo-Babylonian period (600s BC). Now in Berlin. Mesopotamian architecture Builders in Mesopotamia always had a serious problem. There was not [...]

8 09, 2017

South American and Central American architecture

By |2018-04-12T08:53:21-07:00September 8th, 2017|Architecture, Central America, South America|Comments Off on South American and Central American architecture

Olmec Pyramid, La Venta, Mexico (500 BC) The earliest big buildings from South America are in Ecuador and Peru, along the Pacific coast. The Norte Chico people and the Valdivia people built [...]

4 09, 2017

Roman insulae – apartments – Roman architecture

By |2019-09-21T11:39:59-07:00September 4th, 2017|Romans|Comments Off on Roman insulae – apartments – Roman architecture

Insulae at Ostia (can you see where the wooden balconies would have been?) Roman apartment buildings In big cities, most Romans lived in apartment buildings we call insulae (IN-sue-lie), or [...]

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