Category: Arch 221

• November 5, 2018

  World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History | 300-600 CE

  Christians in Rome were using basements and underground catacomb cemeteries as ritual meeting places. Even though Emperor Constantine made official religion as Christianity, the approach did not change. Despite of the colonnaded facades and shaped spaces of the imperial regime, early Christian churches were modest on their exteriors. Those churches were including accomplished design skills…
• October 23, 2018

  World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History | 700-200 BCE

  In this post I am going to continue the history of architecture with Ancient Greek architecture. Ancient Greek architecture influenced Western culture in terms of classicism. Classical architecture includes both a system of proportional composition and decoration elements like sculpted columns and pediments. During the 6th century BCE the city-state concept of Greek’s developed at…
• October 16, 2018

  World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History | 1500-750 BCE

  In this post I am going to continue the world architecture series with a city, Jerusalem. Jerusalem has an important value to the religions and it has cosmological meanings for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The region that Jerusalem located in has very tough conditions. For instance, the city didn’t have an access to a river, water…
• October 9, 2018

  World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History | 3000-1500 BCE

  In the previous post in this category I mentioned the prehistory part which include basic dwelling structures. This week is about mud, gods and urbanism in 3000-1500 BCE. People started to live near the water sources when they begin to live together. We can see the examples of urbanism at Mesopotamia in between those years.…
• October 2, 2018

  World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History | Prehistory

  

  Here is a new category which is for ARCH 241 History of Architecture course. While the lectures are going on, I am going to read some chapters from the book World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History by Richard Ingersoll and share the ideas that I read or I observed with you. First of all, how did architecture begin? Human…