Stonehenge WW-I Memorial, Washington Stonehenge WW-I Memorial was built by the entrepreneur Sam Hill as a homage to the soldiers of Klickitat County, Washington who lost their lives during the World War-I. The designed chosen by him involved replicating the world famous Stonehenge as he was misinformed that Stonehenge was a sacrificial site. However, as far as the replication efforts go Sam Hill’s Stonehenge does not even hold a candle to the aesthetic beauty of the original Stonehenge. Moreover, Sam Hill’s Stonehenge structure (of series of stones joined together) presents a look of abandoned and ruined structure.
The stele, which is a six foot and seven inch tall (2) monument carved into pink limestone (1), was created somewhere around 2200 BC (2). Although the artist is unknown, we can see that he deserted the conventional methods of carving into layered registers, and elected instead for a consolidated and dynamic
Chapter Review (pg. 6-29) A: Human migration across the globe was the complete spread of the human species over much of the earth’s surface. The species began in eastern Africa; most types of humans come from this region, in the present day countries of Tazmania, Kenya, and Uganda. Main discoveries, especially fire and the use of animal skins for clothing-both of which allowed people to live in colder climates-facilitated the spread of Paleolithic groups. The first people moved out of Africa about 750,000 years ago.
For living in a time period where there was not a lot of technological advances that would help them build what they wanted at a faster pace, they had to learn to work with what they had. They also had to learn how to work with materials to be able to make the magnificent and amazing temples, that they are known for. “ The general temple-pyramid consisted of a platform, a long, broad, steep double staircase going up the center, with balustrades going up the sides of the steps. The Aztecs used sculpted stone blocks and skulls to decorate the platform and the ends of the balustrades” (General Construction of Pyramid-Temples). The Aztecs used and made platforms and tools that would help them make their temples better and better each time.
It was always undergoing transformations and structural changes on the inside and out. This is unlike the Newgrange Passage tomb, which is a Neolithic megalithic construction that dates back to 3100 B.C (Newgrange). All of the work on the tomb dates back to around the same time showing that the tomb was completed and not worked on anymore after its completion. Although there is evidence of structural change it is hypothesized to be from the affects of gravity doing work on the materials over the long period of time that the tomb has
The Roman territory of the West may had descended more than 1,500 years ago, but its rich heritage of innovation and invention can still be seen today. The Romans were brilliant builders and skillful civil engineers, and their flourishing evolution produced advances in technology, culture and architecture that remained unrivaled for centuries the Romans were also great innovators and quickly adopted New construction techniques, new materials used, and combined existing techniques with creative design to produce a whole series of new architectural structures such as the Basilica, triumphal arch, Monumental aqueduct, barn building, and Residential apartment. The Romans did not invent the arch. In fact, arch have been used since prehistoric times.
The development of modern day architecture is very fascinating. Even though it has a very significant difference to architecture in the past, it still has many similarities. Many famous buildings we have today still show the same basic designs. For example, the Lincoln Memorial is very similar to the Parthenon.
There are numerous monolithic structures around the world . How primitive man was able to construct these huge structures with no advanced technology continues to remain a mystery. In many of the following myths, giants are often accredited with the construction of these massive monoliths. Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England is among the most famous site in the world. Believed to have been built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.
However it is known for a fact, that they couldn’t have arrived there any time before 1500 b.c. This denies the possibility of Stonehenge having been built by the Druids. That is because the monument was actually built in three phases and two of them took place houndread of years before the arriving of the Druids. Moreover the reading
In the ancient architectural structures, the civilization incorporated their own respective religious beliefs, political views and the socioeconomic factor in the construction. Moreover, these civilizations may have similarities and differences. To begin with, the Ziggurat of Ur and the Great pyramids of Giza are completely from different civilization, however they have similarities in some way. The ziggurat of Ur was built by the Sumerians.
Angkor was first opened as a Hindu shrine and later a Buddhist temple in the late 13th century. Today Angkor is Cambodia's most famous site of religious art and its silhouette appears on Cambodia's flag. The temple was designed and built on a basis of religious and political ideas imported from India. Angkor defines what has come to be understood as the classical style of Angkorian architecture. It combines two basic features of the Khmer temple; the temple-mountain and the galleried temple.
A civilization’s architecture not only shows the artistic skills of its designers and builders but also the functionality of its engineers, the power of its government, and the inventiveness of its people. Architecture was a crucial element to the success of two major cites in Europe, Rome and Athens. Each city had structures consisting of formal architecture like temples and basilicas showing the influence that its leaders had over each city, while utilitarian buildings like bridges and aqueducts helped build communication between distant cities throughout each empire. Though architecture as a whole was an important role in unifying the cities, the architecture design within each illustrates the similarities and differences between two.
The Taj Mahal and the Pyramids of Giza are two of the great seven manmade wonders of the world. They are astounding achievements that mark the legacy of the vast empires that built them. Both these architectural achievements were built near rivers, surrounded by exceptional features, and constructed to honor the deaths of historical figures in the empires. However, they differ in stylistic backgrounds, artists, subjects, artistic periods and symbolic reasons of creation.
As a start, the building types are many as the private houses, baths, as well as temples and theatres and these are our points; Firstly in temples, Greeks’ structures were invented to be the home of gods called Parthenon having an obsolete religion. As inside these sanctuaries they didn’t have spots of meeting, but obeying the penances and aimed to custom an individual god in them. These temples anyways were sometimes used to be storage of votive offerings. Subsequently, they are very unique in there style and very essential modeling construction. For examples, the palace of Knossos, and Athens acropolis.
The style of the building and the purpose it is built give a brief and thoughtful storybook about the culture of the architect as art, generally, and architecture, particularly, is a language itself. Thus, buildings narrate the stories of the people among the history and tell their traditions and habits to the next generation through its design, inscriptions, and details. In this essay, I will discuss how both the style and function of the Greek Parthenon and the Roman Pantheon served as typical examples of their cultures in Athens and ancient Rome. In addition to the similarities and differences between these two cultures through the two buildings. Both the Greek and the Roman architecture inspired the cultures and architects until these days due to the diverse meaning they carry and symbolize in astonishing ways through the different orders, columns, roofs, friezes, and domes.
