Often credited with being the ‘Father of Renaissance’, Giotto di Bondone, was the first-ever artist to break away from the monotonous byzantine style of paintings and move forward with naturalism.…
Vernacular architecture can be characterized as a kind of nearby or local development, utilizing customary materials and assets from the space where the structure is found. Thus, this architecture is…
What came along with the 600-year rule of the Ottoman empire is its architecture. Ottoman architecture has been heavily influenced by two major sources. The first is the Seljuk architecture…
Our collective memory of urban space is defined by a marriage of the physical and the emotional. The physical and the emotional go hand-in-hand. Anthropologists, sociologists study the emotional, cultural…
When I learned about the cupola of Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore, in a relatively dull and dry history lesson, something in me stirred. I was intrigued and instantly enamored.…
“Architecture is about trying to make the world a little bit more like our dreams” – Bjarke Ingels Any change in architectural styles can be based on declarations that come…
The best getaway in the Old World is a trip through castles and palaces of Europe. The European Medieval Castles and Palaces are magical and sumptuous spaces of heritage. The…
Y Bwthyn Bach is a royal Wendy house within Windsor Great Park in England. The architect who designed this eclectic and neoclassical house is Edmund Morgan Willmott. The Little Cottage:…
The Palace of Versailles which was the former French royal residence and center for government is now a national landmark. An epitome of Magnificence: The creations at Versailles were constructed…
In striking contrast to the staid neoclassical style of the royal pavilion at the Hagaparken in Stockholm, lie the Sultan’s Copper Tents designed by Louis Jean Desprez. Somewhere in France,…
There is perhaps no city in the world that offers keener attraction to an architect than does Florence. The attraction lies in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature,…
When we hear the word ‘Renaissance’, we think of Michelangelo, Medici, and Italy. Of all the art movements and architectural periods in the world, the Renaissance is one of the…