The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture; Dieter Arnold

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Donald Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

Ancient Egyptian architecture

2020 ◽  
pp. 426-440
Author(s):  
Corinna Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Ancient Mathematics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

Architectural remains represent one of our main sources of information on ancient Egypt, and one of the first aspects of the ancient Egyptian civilization to have captured the attention of the earliest explorers. Since Egyptology was born, and while it developed as a discipline, the study of ancient Egyptian architecture evolved from initial cursory studies on portions of monuments emerging from the sand, to a wide spectrum of investigations, ranging from analyses of the chemical composition of building materials to the ancient mathematics lying at the basis of the ancient projects, and from the detailed study of specific buildings to the large-scale analysis of the relationship between architecture and landscape.

scholarly journals Shape Grammar as a Typology Defining Tool for Ancient Egyptian Funerary Monuments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Wutte ◽  
José Pinto Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Shape Grammar ◽  
Structure Characteristic ◽  
Funerary Monuments ◽  
Evidential Value ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Symmetric Structure ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

AbstractThis paper proposes a parametric shape grammar for ancient Egyptian funerary monuments. The corpus of monuments includes ten rock-cut structures, duly documented. They exhibit different grades of completion and preservation and possess variant archaeological documentation. The generation of a design following the proposed grammar depends both on formal and functional aspects. Metadata indicates the evidential value and numerical occurrence of rules in the generation of designs. The developed grammar can be used to reconstruct unfinished tombs, extend an existing one, or generate new designs according to the rules. It denotes the linear and symmetric structure characteristic of the monuments and reflects the chronological sequence of construction. The proposed grammar encodes the typology of the studied monuments and suggests that ancient Egyptian architecture may have implied a clear set of canons that may be made explicit by developing additional grammars for other building types.

scholarly journals Geometric Patterns in Egyptian Architecture & Interior Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Heba-Talla Hamdy Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Geometric Pattern ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Inherent Feature ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

This study will examine the role of geometric patterns in selected examples of Egyptian architecture, interior architecture and art. Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Islamic periods are the selected historical ages from Egyptian heritage due to the abundance of different works and styles with geometric pattern characteristics during their periods. In addition to the historical periods, the study will demonstrate some selected models from Egyptian contemporary architecture and arts. These models include architectural projects, traditional craft products and artistic works with geometrical characteristics. The study aims, through the extracted information, to increase the awareness about the effective role of geometric patterns as an architectural and artistic capability and to clarify the degree of freedom, flexibility and functionality as an inherent feature through demonstrating the different practices, styles and materials.

AEgArOn – Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online

2010 ◽  
pp. 463-472
Author(s):  
Ulrike Fauerbach ◽  
Willike Wendrich ◽  
Salma Khamis ◽  
Martin Sählhof ◽  
Bethany Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Diana Wolfe Larkin ◽  
Dieter Arnold ◽  
Sabine H. Gardiner ◽  
Helen Strudwick ◽  
Nigel Strudwick
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

scholarly journals On Measuring Ancient Egyptian Architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Corinna Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Culture ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Precision And Accuracy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

This article discusses the meaning and function of the act of measuring ancient Egyptian architecture in the present-day context, in which the advent of digital culture has allowed the accumulation of extremely precise and accurate data. Our expectations on our modern measurements may lead us to select the ancient data through a filter that does not correspond to the ancient perspective, thus affecting the validity of the results. In order to disentangle past and current perspectives, it may be useful to discuss two aspects: the difference between ancient measures obtained from calculations and observations, and the meaning of precision and accuracy in modern and ancient times. A reconstruction of the planning and building process of ancient monuments is likely to take a successful path only if we are willing to look at the evidence from a slightly different perspective, in which numbers become part of a larger and more complex operation.

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