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Saturday, May 21, 2011

THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE and the ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE

Years have carved the Art of Architecture...
From the ancient structures to  modern skyscrapers, Architecture has been a very important part of the aesthetic nature...
Architecture is generally defined as the art of designing and constructing buildings. But the scope of this form of art is immensely broad. However, focusing mainly on the visual aspect, architecture is more on planning the artistic details of a building to be constructed and, ultimately, fulfill what has been planned. This is just from my personal point of view.

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THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE
As seen from primitive dwellings, primordial temples, and ruins of ancient cities, different architectural styles were already expressed. 
Ancient Indian Temple with intricate carved designs

Norse Church

A Classic Style of a Roman Temple



Architecture is a world-wide art, and each region of this globe has its own distinctive form of architecture. Perhaps, the differences in culture and in civilization are the main reasons why there is such thing as “kinds of architecture”. But amid the great diversity in this category of art, all of these “kinds” of architecture are just pieces that if brought together make up the whole identity of architecture; a richly-manifested form of art.


The Ancient architecture possesses a very distinct style: Ancient Buildings were bedecked with different ornamental designs such as geometric patterns and curvilinear designs. This is a rich heritage of our forefathers to the next generations.
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 Though the people of the ancient times were supposedly not so "highly educated"-- with the world around them still occurs as a mystery-- architectural designs were rich. This just proves that even the people of the olden age, which are innocent of the world around them, possess exceptionally high artistic skills; especially in the field of architecture....




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