Architecture Through the Ages

aisles apse arcades architect architecture Asia Baroque basilica beauty became brick builders building built buttresses Byzantine capital carved CATHEDRAL central century chapels characteristic church classic clerestory colonnaded columns Constantinople construction cornice court Cretan culture curved decorative detail developed dome Doric order earlier early Egyptian elaborate elements Empire entablature entrance Ernest Nash Etruscan exterior feudal floor forms France French front garden Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hall Hittite houses ideals influence interior Italian Italy Knossos later lavish luxury magnificent masonry mihrab moldings monasteries monumental mosque nave neolithic ornament painted palace perhaps period Persian piers pilasters Plate Pompeii porch pyramid rectangular Renaissance ribbed vault ribs rich Rococo Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Romanesque architecture Rome roof rooms sculpture side simple skill sometimes space square stone structural style surface temples tombs towers town tradition usually vault villages walls whole wooden