Study Moorish architecture in Spain. Learn about the rule of the Moors in Spain from the 8th to 15th centuries and the Islamic architectural styles they utilized.Updated: 11/21/2023 Table of Contents The History
Early Gothic Years (1130s–1250s), in which Gothic architecture was majorly restricted to France. High Gothic Years (1250–1300), in which the architectural style expanded toward Britain, Spain, and Italy. Late Gothic Years (fifteenth century), which were characterized by expansion of the Gothic...
The lack of solid bedrock near the surface is reflected by the dominance of buildings made of brick in the historic architecture of this area. Rocks like sandstones and limestones that are suitable for dimen- sion stones had to be transported from far distances, which was expensive and only ...
300 years Mexico was under the control of Spain and largely influenced by European culture, architecture, and technology. European architects and urban planners were brought into Mexico City to develop large-scale city-budling projects that make up a number of the Mexico City buildings visible ...
The reason for the incorporation of pagan Greek and Roman themes was the belief among many of the educated class in Italy that the Greeks and Romans lived during a time that produced art, architecture, literature, and scholarship of a much higher quality than that which was produced during the...
In Spain the work of Surrealist Salvador Dalí sometimes includes hallucinatory views of his Catholicism; Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) is the painter’s self-described “metaphysical” rendition of a crucified Christ but without nails and blood, the cross hovering miraculously above ...
In the time since Wordsworth, poets have sometimes revived the pastoral mode, though usually for some special purpose of their own—often ironic, as in the eclogues of Louis MacNeice, or obscure, as when W.H. Auden called his long poem The Age of Anxiety“a baroque eclogue.” See also...
consist of a collage of fragments and heterogeneous recycled materials; on a medium scale, the agglomeration of huts in slums are configured as chaotic and baroque labyrinths; and, at the same time, on a very large scale, the urban shape of a favela grows like ivy or shrubs in the inters...
buildings Article Remaking Slums: International Examples of Upgrading Neighbourhoods Josep Maria Montaner Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; jose.m.montaner@upc.edu Received: 19 October 2020; Accepted: 20 November 2020; ...
consist of a collage of fragments and heterogeneous recycled materials; on a medium scale, the agglomeration of huts in slums are configured as chaotic and baroque labyrinths; and, at the same time, on a very large scale, the urban shape of a favela grows like ivy or shrubs in the inters...