Styles of Architecture Throughout Time

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  1. 3. Also known as 'late Baroque', was an extreme, decorative development of Baroque architecture that emerged in the 18th century as a reaction against grandeur and symmetry.
  2. 7. It is a wooden architectural structure built on the basis of the traditional Korean-style framework consisting of columns and purlins and a roof.
  3. 9. Japanese architectural style for mansion-estates constructed in the Heian period (794–1185).
  4. 12. Their temples were constructed in a pyramid style, with multiple levels painted in bright colors symbolic of different gods.
  5. 13. It was noted for its towering Buddhist pagodas, enormous stone and wooden bridges, lavish tombs, and extravagant palaces.
  6. 15. Its defining characteristic is a heightened dome, the result of the latest sixth-century engineering techniques.
  7. 16. Styles include pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic.
  8. 17. It was characterized by vaulted cupolas (domelike ceilings) held up by swiveling colonnades (rows of pillars), walls and doorways made of both rough stones and smooth stucco.
  9. 18. Their achitecture includes multi-level elevated platforms and massive step-pyramides.
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  1. 1. It's famed for mostly its megalithic architecture of tombs, temples, and structures.
  2. 2. Their architecture is typified by large temples with double-columned facades approached by a short staircase.
  3. 4. A characteristic feature of this achitecture design was the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction.
  4. 5. This architecture is known for tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance.
  5. 6. This style hightened the effect with heavenly spires, pointed arches and religious carvings.
  6. 8. This style includes limestone construction, often with smooth wall surfaces; plaster (stucco) finishes; masks and other representations of the rain god Chac (Chaac.
  7. 10. It is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, Greek—especially Doric (see order)—or Roman detail, dramatic use of columns.
  8. 11. Most buildings were built of locally available mud brick and limestone by paid laborers and craftsmen.
  9. 14. Comprises the modern day countries from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica.