Medieval Definition–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages. |
| 2. | Informal. extremely old-fashioned; primitive. |
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Architecture Definition–noun | 1. | the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selecti
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on of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings. |
| 2. | the character or style of building: the architecture of Paris; Romanesque architecture. |
| 3. | the action or process of building; construction. |
| 4. | the result or product of architectural work, as a building. |
| 5. | buildings collectively. |
| 6. | a fundamental underlying design of computer hardware, software, or both. |
| 7. | the structure of anything: the architecture of a novel. |
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Relatively few structures survive from the Dark Ages, but the later centuries of the medieval period were a great age of building. The Romanesque and Gothic architecture that produced the outstanding ...
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Throughout its history, German architecture combined influences from elsewhere in Europe with its own national character. During the medieval period, the Romanesque style dominated. In the 13th ...
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Portugal boasts several scores of medieval castles, as well as the ruins of several villas and forts from the period of Roman occupation. Romanesque and Gothic influences have given Portugal some of ...
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Architecture was the most important and original art form during the Gothic period. The principal structural characteristics of Gothic architecture arose out of medieval masons' efforts to solve the ...
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The best known Safavid monuments are located at Esfahan where 'Abbas I built a whole new city. According to one description, it contained 162 mosques, 48 madrasahs, 1,802 commercial buildings, and ...
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The conservation and restoration of older architecture is an increasing modern preoccupation. The earliest buildings to have survived generally tend to be those that received religious veneration. ...
Islamic arts
The great Fatimid mosques of Cairo-al-Azhar (started in 970) and al-Hakim (c. 1002-03)-were designed in the traditional hypostyle plan with axial cupolas. It is only in such architectural details as ...
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