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The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, which point to an article in the English Wikipedia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Elain Harwood (1958–2023), a specialist in post–Second World War English architecture; Jonathan Hill (1958–2023), Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at University College London, England; Karen Burns (born 1962), historian of nineteenth-century architecture and twentieth-century architecture
Among the many Roman architectural achievements were domes (which were created for temples), baths, villas, palaces and tombs. The most well known example is the one of the Pantheon in Rome, being the largest surviving Roman dome and having a large oculus at its centre. Another important innovation is the rounded stone arch, used in arcades ...
Architectural history studies the evolution and history of architecture — across the world through a consideration of socio-cultural, political, economic and technological influences. The main article for this category is History of architecture .
Oldest extant buildings in Honduras, constructed by ancestors of the Lenca people. [126] Nan Madol: Federated States of Micronesia: Oceania: 700s CE City City constructed by the Pohnpeians in the 700s CE on human-made islands (also created by the Pohnpeians). Nan Madol contains the oldest known extant buildings in Oceania.
List of World's Fair architecture; World's oldest architectural practices continuously operating This page was last edited on 23 March 2013, at 15:55 (UTC). Text is ...
Vitruvius is the author of De architectura, libri decem, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, [27] a treatise written in Latin on architecture, dedicated to the emperor Augustus. In the preface of Book I, Vitruvius dedicates his writings to giving personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor.
It explains the evolution of how humans created shelter and other structures that comprises the entire built environment. It covers several fields including structural engineering , civil engineering , city growth and population growth , which are relatives to branches of technology , science, history , and architecture .