Sentence examples for architectural orders from inspiring English sources

The Palazzo Senatorio ("Senate Palace") incorporates remains of the facade of the Tabularium, a state records office constructed in 78 bce and one of the first buildings to use concrete vaulting and employ the arch with the Classical architectural orders.

The academic tendency of Vignola's mind is epitomized in his Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura of 1562, which remained a standard textbook on the architectural orders for three centuries.

It was a style that fetishised the imagery of technology, that elevated catalogue components of spigots and sprockets, gaskets and rivets, into the canon of the architectural orders – and so it became known as High Tech.

Sangallo followed the Renaissance precepts regarding the architectural orders on the lower floors, but Michelangelo's top story uses the traditional elements in a willful way, capping it all with an overpowering cornice a personal expression that foreshadowed Mannerism, a leaching of Renaissance ideals, and the subsequent theatrical self-expression of Baroque.

At Lori Goldstein's apartment, on West 23rd Street, Floyd delivered an underlying architectural order to provide a clean slate for the client's kaleidoscopic collection of furniture, fabrics and photographs.

"The conversion of the fourth plinth into a soap box or theatrical stage may be high-minded in intention", he says, "but is symptomatic of this pervasive antagonism to architectural order".

Although it looks more like a collection of buildings, with its articulated porch and double transepts, the entire composition is united by a disciplined architectural order – a coherent system of horizontals and verticals.

If the stations seemed, as people said, Dantesque, that was not simply because the subway was belowground, and a punishment, but also because it offered an architectural order that seemed to be free from any interfering human hand, running by itself in its own grim circles.

In the 1920's, when Le Corbusier famously described the industrial icons of the American Midwest as the "magnificent first fruits of the new age," it was both a battle cry for a new architectural order and a jab at a complacent bourgeoisie.

The principal result is explanation of the general rules of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic architectural order, which was used in spatial organization of the communal/cult building in the Southeastern Anatolia Region.

Japanese photographers tried out the mechanical, architectural, graphically ordered styles the West had already initiated in honor of the machine age and were included more and more often in exhibitions in the West.