European style architectural features

In recent years, foreign culture has slowly entered the public's field of vision, sometimes you will see a special shape of the villa, arched structure, pointed roof, and a short courtyard wall. That is actually European architecture style culture into our country a phenomenon. European-style architecture in our country is mostly used for villa construction, in general residential hard to see. The following editorial will tell you about the style characteristics and expression of European-style architecture.

I. European architectural style features

1. European style early from Egyptian art, Egypt's historical origins are located in about 2850 BC. Egypt's last dynastic monarch, Cleopatra (the famous Cleopatra), fought off the Roman invasion in 30 BC. After that, Egyptian and European civilizations began to merge. Subsequently, Greek art, Roman art, Byzantine art, Roman art, Gothic art, constituted the early European art style, that is, the medieval art style.

2. From the Renaissance, Baroque art, Rococo style, Louis XVI style, Adam style, government style, imperial style, the dynastic restoration style, Louis-Philippe style, the second empire style constitutes the main European art style. This period is the main period of the formation of European style. Which is more famous than the Baroque and Rococo style, loved by the royal family.

II. European architectural style of expression

1, the formation of columns

Taurik columns appeared early in the Greek temple of Poseidon, built in 460 BC. Mainly popular in Sicily, Italy. The character of Tauric is characterized by masculinity, rigidity, robustness, simplicity of the column head, the number of 20 slots, fewer feet, strong sense of volume. Ionic columns appeared in the Parthenon built in 432 BC, mainly popular in Asia Minor. Ionic character is characterized by femininity, clean, soft, delicate column head, 24 grooves, a variety of curved feet, weak sense of volume.

2, coupon arch technology and the formation of the structure

The main function of the Greek columns is load-bearing, while the Romans invented the coupon arch wall, the end of the Romans in the form of beams and columns to decorate the coupon arch wall, the results of the long-term practice of a completely new coupon column architectural vocabulary, columns, load-bearing function disappeared, replaced by a decorative function. Corners, Roman columns, arches and vouchers (Roman vouchers) were formed, and vouchers became the basic vocabulary of ancient Roman architecture. Marble buildings, superbly carved artistic decoration, mosaic mosaic art are the basic features of Roman art

3, the combination of the dome and the sail arch

European architecture unique Byzantine architectural vocabulary, the balance of the dome is the second feature of this style. The technique of lifting a round dome from a square composition comes from Persian architecture, and the Pantheon in Rome is an example of this composition.

4, form and structure

The form and structure of the Gothic architecture is the second structural art of the Roman building based on the completion of the leap. Set of cross arches, skeleton coupons, double-centered pointed arches, pointed coupons and other practices and the use of handrails to support the vault side thrust structure appeared.

Interior decoration of the European style we often see, but European architecture in our country is not a lot, of course, if you have the money or their own construction site is big enough, want to have a set of European architectural style of the house is still very easy to do.