Sentence examples for element of architecture from inspiring English sources

"We've taken the most fundamental element of architecture," says Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, designer of this summer's Serpentine pavilion, which opens on Friday, "and unzipped it".

A tapered rectangular stone post topped with a portrait bust is now called a herm; it is a standard element of architecture in the classical style.

Its Elemental draws from architect Rem Koolhaas' 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale work, The Elements of Architecture, where the architect laid out the fundamental building blocks of, well, building.

His The Elements of Architecture (1624) is a landmark volume that helped introduce Italian architectural theories into England.

He works on a large, even heroic scale, combining elements of architecture and anthropology.

The basic formal elements of architecture in this sense are space and mass.

Evidence suggests that it was the Etruscans who taught the Romans the alphabet and numerals, along with many elements of architecture, art, religion, and dress.

Extending the fascination are finely rendered elements of architecture, furniture, decorative patterning and objects like the inflated ring floating on the pool's surface.

Q Why did you leave S.O.M.?  A My focus at S.O.M. was on the technical elements of architecture and project delivery.

Here, this year's director, Rem Koolhaas, together with students from Harvard and a considerable team of collaborators, has installed a series of rooms which represent the elements of architecture – doors, stairs, walls, balconies and so on – and their contemporary versions.

"We want to take a fresh look at the fundamental elements of architecture — used by any architect, anywhere, anytime — to see if we can discover something new about architecture," Mr. Koolhaas said in a statement.