10 sentences with 'architecture'
Example sentences and phrases with the word architecture and other words derived from it.
• « The monumental architecture of the New Kingdom consisted of huge temples and statues, most notably the Great Temple of Abu Simbel in northern Nubia, built under the direction of Pharaoh Ramesses II sometime around 1250 BC. »
• « A well-known example of this was in Greek architecture, with the use of a mathematical concept known as the 'golden ratio' (also known as the 'golden number') which, when applied to construction, creates forms that the Greeks, and many others later, believed were inherently pleasing to the eye. »
• « The most important surviving piece of Greek architecture, the Parthenon in Athens dedicated to the patron goddess of the polis, Athena, was built to embody the golden ratio in terms of its height and width. »
• « When the Romans finally conquered Greece itself, they had already spent hundreds of years absorbing Greek ideas and culture, modelling their architecture on the great buildings of the classical Greek era and studying Greek ideas. »
• « Along with philosophy and architecture, the most important Greek import to reach Roman shores was rhetoric: the mastery of words and language to persuade people and win arguments. »
• « As noted in the last chapter, the eastern half of the Roman Empire survived for 1,000 years after the fall of the western half. It continued most of Rome's traditions and added many innovations in architecture, science, religion and learning. »
• « This was true not only in art, but also in education, architecture, scholarship and business practices. »
• « That work of art would be publicly displayed - most obviously in the case of architecture with the beautiful churches, orphanages and municipal buildings that spread throughout Italy during the Renaissance. »
• « Renaissance thinkers and artists very consciously claimed that they were reviving long-lost traditions of the classical world in areas as diverse as scholarship, poetry, architecture and sculpture. »
• « However, during this period, the Dutch had created a global trading network, demonstrated that commercial dominance would be a crucial factor of political power in the future, and oversaw a cultural flowering of art and architecture. »