The English colonists in North America were neither adventurers nor the rulers of great and ancient peoples. Unlike various colonizers down the ages, they had no need to impress the native people, nor did they have a strong local tradition to fit into.

Freedom and liberation were the passwords of the 1960s counter-culture, and that meant freedom to act, sing, draw and design in any way one pleased.

Out of the immediate military reach of the great empires of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Persia lay the Aegean coast (now western Turkey), the Aegean islands and the valleys of the hilly Greek peninsula beyond.

As the Roman Empire distintegrated amid war and rebellion, living standards in western Europe declined precipitously, and so did the population - to a third of what it had been.

This article walks you through the range of Modernism in our history.

Baroque is the expression of a civilization of awe-inspiring, splendid, magniloquent images exploited by the powerful to disguise a far different reality, dramatic and full of strife.

Architect is the key person involving in the planning, design, and oversight of a building's construction. This article tells you what makes the profession worth practising and the path way to become a registered or licensed architect.

Bourgeois Gothic - The Perpendicular style, with its fan vaults and thin screen-like walls, was the English reaction to the Black Death.

The extraordinary period of invention in the history of art and architecture ended as the increasingly hot, dry climate burnt the fields and desiccated the northern French vineyards which had funded much of this work.