Category: architecture...

the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture, and Fatehpur Sikri in India of Moghul architecture
buildings communicate experience and ideas through their form
society sets the goals and assigns to the architect the job of finding the means of achieving them
in the United States, barns are being built according to a design employed in Europe in the 1st millennium BC
power architecture, like the palace of Versailles, where someone in power can use the resources of the community in the construction of their home, palace, villa, etc.
architecture in general is frozen music (F von Schelling)
the Taj Mahal, Great Pyramid of Giza, Great Wall of China, Eiffel Tower, Chrysler Building, Big Ben, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, and Angkor Wat
looking for a rhythm in the composition of a structure and its relationship to neighboring structures, considering the mood or feeling evoked by the structure, the effects of light and sound
the three elements: purpose, the reason for the building to exist; design, the shape that a building takes in response to its perceived purpose; and structure, the way the building is put together out of constituent parts
the earliest known structures built by archaic humans at Terra Amata, France, dating to 380,000 years ago
There is about 100 times more stone and brick in the Great Pyramid than in the Empire State Building.
Main structural and functional features of a building: roof, walls and arches, doors, and windows.
house plan drawings