Many ancient Egyptian, Greek and Islamic religious buildings share a common feature known as hypostyle. Defined as rows of columns that support a roof, this solution has developed in different ...

Xu Ye’er visits Zishou Temple in North China’s Shanxi Province, an architecture being originally built in Tang Dynasty ...

The ancient architecture of America, its historical value and parallelism of development with the architecture of the Old world, a discourse delivered before the N. Y. Hist. Soc., at its meeting April ...

Much before humans constructed their first permanent shelters, they discovered the protective power of animal hides as a barrier against harsh environmental conditions. This fundamental principle of ...

Miniature models of ancient Chinese building assembled from mortise-and-tenon toy building blocks, designed by Wanfeng Chinese Ancient Architecture Building Blocks. Photo: Courtesy of Liu Wenhui ...