The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture ...
Prestigieuses abbayes, émouvants monastères, merveilleux prieurés, jalonnent la France comme autant d'immortels chefs-d'oeuvre, révélant le plus souvent une parfaite harmonie avec un environnement naturel ...
From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks. The tempestuous political ...
1 Vivienda Unifamiliar Urbanización Cala Tamarit, Tarragona IX Premio arquitectura de ladrillo María-Luisa Bravo Sánchez Francisco-Javier Solé Vidal 2 Casa en El Cortijo Fitero, ...
The mosques of Istanbul represent the splendour of Islamic architecture. Their central domes, rising above the skyline of the city, convey both the ideals ...
The fifteenth-century architect Sinan (1489-1588) was a master mosque builder who employed perfect proportions to create astonishing lightness in architecture--especially in his gravity-defying cupolas. ...
