History of Architecture & Culture - III
History of Architecture & Culture - III
History of Architecture & Culture - III
III
AIM:
To inform about the development of architecture in the western
world through the evolution of Christianity as a religion and the
cultural and contextual determinants that produced that architecture.
OBJECTIVE:
• To understanding Church architecture as evolving within specific
cultural contexts including aspects of society, religion, politics and
climate.
CHURCH PLANNING –
BASILICAN CONCEPT:
• S, Vitale, Ravenna;
•a style emerged which was influenced more by the architecture of the near east,
and used the Greek cross plan for the church architecture which mostly stands
today.
Cross shapes
4 arms meet in a crossing space
Symbolic stele erected to represent the apostles
Large court around