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The emphatically classical church façade of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (1578–90) was designed by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.. During the Italian Renaissance and with the demise of Gothic style, major efforts were made by architects such as Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola to revive the language of architecture of first and ...
The Acropolis of Athens, a World Heritage Site in Athens, Greece. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical architecture: . Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome.
Robert Chitham (1935 or 36 – 13 September 2017) [1] was a British architect and writer. He was the author of The Classical Orders of Architecture published in 1985. A revised edition was published in 2005. [2] He drew from the diagramming and harmony of proportions of classical forms starting from Vitruvius, to Palladio, and foremost to James ...
Rome was once the world's main epicentres of Classical architecture, developing new forms such as the arch, the dome and the vault. The Romanesque style in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries was also widely used in Roman architecture, and later the city became one of the main centres of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. [1]
Adam Cartwright of Bonanza was an architectural engineer with a university education who designed the sprawling familial ranch-house on the Ponderosa Ranch. [1] [2] The character George Costanza pretends to be an architect named "Art Vandelay" in Seinfeld. Architect Halvard Solness is the protagonist of Henrick Ibsen's 1892 play The Master Builder.
The Classical Orders Of Architecture. Elsevier/Architectural Press. ISBN 978-0-7506-6124-9. James Stevens Curl (2003). Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, With a Select Glossary of Terms. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-73119-4. John Newenham Summerson (1963). The Classical Language of Architecture ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Classical architecture"
Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architectural history; John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530–1830; Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980), Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture; John Harvey (1911–1997), English Gothic architecture and architects