The Aesthetics of Construction
Introduction
The architectural style is the set of characteristics that identify the artistic trend of a period or an author.
In the history of architecture it is one of the ways of classifying periods that are characterized by having styles that make a building, or a construction, historically identifiable.
Architectural styles appear and prevail during a certain historical time and appear as certain opinions or reactions to such opinions and have their first stages and stages of development, so, in general, each architectural style is simply divided into:.
• - early,.
• - half,.
• - late style - that is, its phase of development for which the appearance of certain characteristics and forms that accompany it and are applied there can be determined with certainty. The boundaries between individual styles are not always precisely defined and very often there is a mixture of individual styles and their penetration into each other and gradual transitions over a period of time.
Classification and stylistic evolution
Stylistic classification is usually based on the form "Form (figure)") of the architectural elements, the method of construction, the construction materials used, or the regional character. Most architecture can be classified according to a chronology of styles that have varied over time, reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technologies or materials that make the new style possible.
Styles emerge from the history of a society and are documented as a subject of study in the history of architecture. At many times in history several styles have been simultaneously in fashion, and when a style changed, it usually did so little by little, as architects learned and adapted to new ideas and their patrons accepted them. The new style was sometimes just a rebellion against an existing style, such as postmodernism, which in recent years found its own language and split into a series of new substyles with other names.
Styles often spread to other places, so when the original style continued to develop new ways, it could differentiate itself from the other areas that continued their own life. For example, the Renaissance began in Italy around 1425 and spread throughout Europe over the next 200 years, giving rise to a French, Belgian, German, English or Spanish Renaissance, recognizable as the same style, but with unique characteristics. A style could also spread through colonialism, either when foreign colonies learned in their home country, or when settlers moved to new lands. An example is the Spanish missions in California, taken over by Spanish priests at the turn of the century and built in a single style (California mission architecture).