Architecture & Architectural Elements, pg 2/2

St. Peter's Basilica is the most prominent building in the Vatican and its dome is a significant landmark on the Rome skyline. The current basilica was designed by architect Donato Bramante and built between 1506 and 1626 over a previous basilica. The word 'basilica', from the Greek, orginally meant a large public building at the center of the town.

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Onion domes are usually associated with Russian Orthodox churches. St. Basil's, commissioned by Ivan the Terrible, was built between 1555 and 1561.

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The Taj Mahal is famous for its architectural splendor and the love story that inspired its creation. In 1612, Mumtaz Mahal became the wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. When she died, Jahan began construction on her tomb which took 20,000 people, 1,000 elephants, and twenty years, to finish.

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The Tower of Pisa is a campanile, a free standing bell tower, for the Cathedral of Pisa. Notable for leaning, the tower had an inadequately planned and built foundation for the loose substrate that was incapable of supporting the structure evenly. Building the tower began in 1173, the sinking on one side began in 1178 with the addition of the third level. Due to the inclination of the Pisan citizens to maintain the famed leaning aspect of the tower, work to prevent the tower from toppling completely included bringing the tower to a stable 3.97º slant.

FYI - It was Galileo's secretary who reported that the famous scientist tested his theory of falling objects by dropping two balls of the same material, but of differnt masses, from the tower, to demonstrate that the time of descent was independent of mass.

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The 2000 years old Bam Citadel (Arg-E Bam) in Iran was the largest adobe building in the world until destroyed 12-26-2003 by an earthquake. Dating from before 500BC, the UNESCO World Heritage site on the Silk Road will be rebuilt. The word citadel which means fortess, and the word city, share the same Latin root word "civis" (citizen).

English Cathedral, Salisbury Cloister

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The Tempietto by Donato Bramante is considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance architecture. The Tempietto is a martyrium, or final resting place for the remains of a saint or martyr.

Theatre at Epidaurus
(first healing center), Peloponnesos, Greece

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Alphabet Architektur

In Johann David Steingruber’s alphabet, published in 1773, each letter of the alphabet is made into a plan of a palatial building.

Tudor style, the final development of medieval architecture, is named after the English ruling dynasty (1485-1603) of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. It is characterized by decorative half-timbering, steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables, tall, narrow windows, small window panes, large chimneys that were often topped with decorative chimney pots. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is an example of Tudor architecture.

Flatiron Building, Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

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Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

Kunsthauswien
art + house + vienna

Museum dedicated to work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.