From Courtauld Institute of Art's, Art and Architecture on-line resource, this is the entry for Pierre Granche's, Canada Memoria in Green Park, London. The monument and how it came about is explained and presented.

Images of American buildings, including houses, churches, and public buildings from the seventeenth century through the twenthieth century taken by Dr. Jeffery Howe, a professor at Boston College. The table of contents groups images by...

Robert Venturi's New Castle County House offers a modest but instructive example of the Post-Modern style set. Even though he never liked the stylistic term Post Modern, his buildings and critical writings helped propel late 20th-century...

A physics tutorial on designing an auditorium and solving the problem of sound reflection. Illustrated.

Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili, this institute works to create homes from the earth using such materials as sand, clay, and dirt. Its mission is to create tree-less places for...

A question-and-answer site giving information about the Anasazi, an ancestral Pueblo people. There is a discussion of their languages, farming methods, architecture, and use of astronomy.

Get to know all about the history, culture, architecture, and archaeology of the Normans, a European civilization from the 9th-16th centuries.

In this sixth unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about Hispanic homes and architecture. As they listen, speak, and write about houses, they will use related vocabulary, e.g., furniture, floors, and housekeeping...

Sceno Plus is an architectural firm that specializes in theater design. At their site you can find out all about the company and examples of their work.

Illustrations and descriptions for dozens of popular architectural styles for residences.

Explore Paris' many churches and the architectural and artistic treasures hidden within them. This video presentation offers colorful photos of stained-glass windows, paintings, ceiling frescoes, sculptures, archways, and carvings, and...

Landscape architecture and design take a lot of planning and preparation. Give it your best shot and design a garden of your own.

A series of digital models of several of Minnesota's historically significant buildings. Features a 3D model of the Washburn A Mill and the surrounding Mill City area of Minneapolis in 1885. Following this work, IATH created models of...

From the Introduction to Structural Design web site. A page of well-written lecture notes on the various structural qualities of building materials. A comparison is made of the strength, stiffness, stability and ductility of materials,...

Reviews the basics with respect to Greek architectural orders, including the Doric order of architecture as demonstrated by the Athenian Treasury at Delphi.

Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.

Find short illustrated articles on many different aspects of ancient Greek culture, warfare, art, literature, religion, and architecture.

An image of "Specimens of Gothic Architecture (frontispiece)", created by Augustus Charles Pugin from 1821-23 (Engraving, 240 x 180 mm).

An image of "A Fantastic Architectural View", created by Francois De Nomez (Oil on canvas).

A student from a 5th/6th grade classroom in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this illustration of a dwarf dwelling as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. The task given to students was to create a prehistoric cave home in...

Students are introduced to the basic principles behind engineering and the types of engineering while learning about a popular topic - the Olympics. The involvement of engineering in modern sports is amazing and pervasive. Students learn...

The Etruscans influenced not only the government of the Roman monarchy, but also the religious practices, and early architecture.

With Rome's conquest of foreign lands, she assimilates many ideas for literature, architecture, art, religion, and philosophy.

Rich-media exhibition of Bauhaus architecture and design and the people, such as Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, who embodied the school's modernist aesthetics and interests.