Architecture

No matter where you look in today’s cities, towns, and communities, one can see similarities of the architecture to those of ancient times. Many of today’s building all across the country have similarities to buildings of the ancient world and does not just appear in the realm of religious institutions, banks, or government buildings. Buildings at Colleges, insurance companies, banquet halls, auditoriums, palaces, temples, castles, monasteries, and even convention centers for example are…

The Cathedral of St. Paul, designed in 1905 by Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, at the time was referred to as “a modern building” (Cathedral of St. Paul, n.d.). It was designed in the Beaux Arts style popularized between 1893-1929, considered a “revival style” and characterized by heavy ornamentation, large features and “heavy masonry”. Roman arches and columns are often used in this style (Architectural Styles.org, n.d.) That style can be seen in the arches, domes, symmetry and lines. One of the…

The video on YouTube named “Middle Ages Architecture: How the great cathedrals were built-Documentary” by Science&Technology 4U states that Gothic Cathedrals have dominated the skies for over a thousand years. How did engineers in the middle ages without any modern tools constructed cathedrals? Some experts started investigating how engineers built those amazing cathedrals. Apparently, a hidden mathematical code written on the pages of The Bible was used as a blueprint. Taller than the ancient…

Before the 20th century, American residential architecture was very influenced by the European architecture, through its Victorian mansions, Italian villas, among others. However, a Chicago architect named Frank Lloyd Wright believed that his originality and creativity did not depend of Europe styles of architecture. He wanted to create a distinctly American architecture. However, he had not yet travelled to Europe until 1909, when left United States of America for the first time in order to…

When one sets out to build an impressive, modern building, one might be calling upon architecture that is 2,000 years old. That architecture would be ancient Greek architecture. Why Greek architecture? The answer is that Greek architecture established a new way of thinking about and using space. The Greeks thought about the rational organization of buildings and cities. They established the foundations for a spirit of creative experimentation in design and a vision of freedom. This way of…

Gothic architecture, for me, is a very interesting topic as one style evolved from the other. Romanesque architecture is believed to have developed between the 6th and 10th century, while Gothic architecture arose in the 12th century. Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe, although in England, it is more often referred to as Norman architecture. It was the first style of architecture which stood out since the Roman Empire. Many of the Romanesque architecture…

1.Introduction: Mainly, in every organization enterprise architecture plays an important role because an organization must maintain a plan of its operations of current and future potentially. Importantly, the enterprise architecture provides the information about how the hardware, software, and network work together. Correspondingly, the architecture provides an outline of the organization goals and documentation of the process, the technical implementation which allows the for the organization…

more effective and produce positive results? That is what an Enterprise Architecture (EA) is for! The Meridian-Webster dictionary defined EA as a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization with the intent to determine how an organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. This paper presents a comparison between two of the most popular Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF and FEAF. Are these two frameworks any different? Are they…

no longer the dense brick, but the open box. For regionalism, the styling tied to geographical and cultural context. Critical regionalism and international style have many differences in their beginning, their pioneers, their philosophy, and the architecture how was influenced by Definition International style is architectural style buildings dominating the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, which was characterized as being free of regional characteristics, and emphasizes the…

above the crossing, shedding light onto the altar and the relic of Saint James. Pointed arches, ribbed groin vaults, and external buttresses are all used in Romanesque architecture, but are not combined optimally to bear the most weight, so thick walls and columns must be used and the crushing weight of the bulky stone architecture is noticeable to the viewer. The interior is often heavily decorated with paint and carvings. Illustrating this style, the piers of Durham Cathedral, constructed in…