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Gothic Architecture Websites offering images, terms, and background on the most recognizable medieval architectural style.
Medieval Church Architecture Sites that focus on what many consider the greatest achievements of medieval architecture: churches and cathedrals.
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Glossaries for Interior Decorating Learn the lingo for decorating and design terms with these online glossaries. These cover many topics from antiques and auctions to furniture and windowcoverings.
What is a battlement or merlons or crenellations - Architecture Glossary Definition and illustration for the terms BATTLEMENT, EMBRASURES, MERLONS and CRENELLATIONS
Was there a George VI style? Now that the story of British architecture and design in the twentieth century is less often distorted by over-emphasis on
Writing under his pseudonym, Peter F. Donner, in the Architectural Review in November 1941, Nikolaus Pevsner opened by stating that 'Every phase in history has its style permeating all its producti...(Continue Reading) Crystal case: the Rhineland Regional Museum in Bonn is a model of its kind in both urban and cultural terms
The Rhineland Regional Museum started as long ago as the 1820s, and has accumulated a distinguished collection ranging from the 40000 year old skeleton ......(Continue Reading)The new paradigm in architecture - Theory
Charles Jencks suggests culture is transforming itself from the simple certainties of Modernism to a much more complex interpretation of reality based ......(Continue Reading)Architecture and the car: as the automobile evolved in tandem with modern architecture, it created myths, legends and new building types
Gabriel Voison (1880-1973) gave up architectural studies to fly, and then to build aircraft for the French air force. After the First World War, Voison ......(Continue Reading)Venetian morphology: the visual fluidity of Venice was reflected in a show of Turner's watercolors and the city's latest building-design biennial
By a unique act of esthetic photosynthesis, Venice has over the centuries converted wealth into lasting architectural beauty. But in the 25 years that ......(Continue Reading)
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