Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical...

The Classical Language of Architecture is a 1965 compilation of six BBC radio lectures given in 1963 by Sir John Summerson. It is a 60-some page discussion...

even as modernist and other non-classical theories broke with the classical language of architecture. The new classical movement is also connected to a...

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical architecture: Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity...

Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished...

A classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written literature. In the context of traditional...

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that...

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...

Classical Ottoman architecture is a period in Ottoman architecture generally including the 16th and 17th centuries. The period is most strongly associated...

135 Lawrence, 132 "Architectural Styles and Language." Roman Architecture: An Expert Visual Guide to the Glorious Classical Heritage of Ancient Rome, by...

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...

Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block...

An increasingly large series of round buildings were constructed in the developing tradition of classical architecture until Late antiquity, which are...

ISBN 2-263-04096-X. Summerson, John (1963). The Classical Language of Architecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262690126. Texier, Simon...

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history...

medieval architecture and in the Scottish baronial style as well as in the vocabulary of classical architecture, such as the modillions of a Corinthian...

ISBN 0946897948. Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture, pp. 128, 133, 1980 edition, Thames and Hudson World of Art series, ISBN 0500201773...

Summerson, 19-21 Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1980 edition, Thames and Hudson World of Art series, ISBN 0500201773 Lyttleton...

National Library of Australia (1968) resurrect grand Stripped Classical designs. See Australian non-residential architectural styles. The use of culture and...

near the top of the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture. At the top of the architrave blocks, a row of six guttae below the narrow...

theatre, music, language, and architecture beginning in the 17th century Neoclassical architecture, an architectural style of the 18th and 19th centuries...

to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity...

The Five Orders of Architecture (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562...

recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek...

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process...

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders:...

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are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the cornice (an...

A History of Western Architecture. Laurence King. p. 673. ISBN 978-1-52942-030-2. Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1980 edition...

is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused...