The architecture of Brazil, developed through the centuries since the beginning of the colonization of Brazil is influenced by the several people that form the Brazilian people and for the several styles architectural vindos of the exterior. The architecture bandeirista and the mining Baroque are considered for many specialists as expressions of European styles that found in Brazil a manifestation and own language, standing out of its metropolitan tallies. The first refers the production accomplished basically in what it would be the State of São Paulo today for the families of the members of the Bandeiras, being inspired by a close aesthetics, although enough altered, of Maneirismo. Monday corresponds to a Baroque type (although many consider it closer of the Rococo) especially represented by the churches built by Aleijadinho.
As several historians, the Brazilian architecture had its culminating point in the modernist movement, with the construction of Brasília, by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.

He/she calls himself Architecture of the Renaissance or renascentista to that that it was produced during the period of the European Renaissance, that is to say, basically, during the centuries XIV, XV and XVI. It is characterized by being a moment of rupture in the History of the Architecture in several spheres: in the means of production of the architecture; in the adopted architectural language and in its teorização. This rupture, that shows starting from the Renaissance, is characterized by a new attitude of the arquitectos in relation to its art, passing it be assumed more and more as independent professionals, carriers of a personal style. They are inspired, however, in its interpretation of the Classic Antiquity and in its architectural slope, considered as the perfect models of the Arts and of the own life.
It is also one moment in that the arts manifest a synthesis project and interdisciplinaridade plenty impactante, in that the fine arts are not considered as independent elements, being subordinated to the Architecture.
neoclassical architecture is the revival of the classic architecture, that is to say an architecture done with the rules of the classic architecture in a posterior historical moment the Greek and Roman civilizations.
Vestiges of constructions neolíticas exist through models of houses found in graves, but just with the introduction of the Buddhism, in the century I SAW d.C., it can identify a continuous tradition.
As the religion, the Japanese architecture was very influenced by China (to see Chinese art), with the adoption of the wood as main construction material and of the column as primordial element of the structure (Japan has trees in abundance and the wood constructions are very adapted to a country subject to earthquakes). However, the Japanese architecture tends to be less grandiose than the Chinese and he/she gives larger attention to the integration of the construction to the atmosphere. This consideration has private importance in the location of the sanctuaries xintoístas (the xintoísmo is the old Japanese religion, predecessor of the Buddhism), that were always placed in beautiful local and they presented a grandiosidade atmosphere or of mystery, suggesting the proximity of the gods.
* Temples In the essential, the Japanese architecture a little lost temper through the centuries and it has been preserved because some religious constructions were reconstructed periodically exactly in the same way, for ritual reasons. The Buddhist temples were erected frequently as monastic schools, with several buildings in a same complex. Total domain of the carpentry was reached; a lot of the beauty of the Japanese constructions so much of the subtle curvatures of the roofs depends as of another ornamental treatments, besides the painting of the pillars and beams and the douração use.
The high point of the Buddhist architecture in Japan was reached with the construction of the mosteiro of Todaiji, in Nara, founded in 745, that marks the adoption of the Buddhism as the official religion of the State for the imperial house. The Room of Great Buda, dedicated to the divinity by emperor Shomu in 752 (reconstructed in 1709), it continues being the largest construction in wood of the world.
* Arquitectura maidservant on the other hand, the Japanese domestic architecture is notable for its simplicity and refinement. Sliding panels of wood or of paper of rice they subdivide the internal areas in series of airy spaces. A place of the house is sometimes separated for the ceremony of the tea, associated to the contemplation and the cultivation of the arts, but them house-of-tea is generally special pavilions located in the gardens. The relationship between the house and the garden is traditionally very important for Japanese, being the balcony a transition space.
* Palaces and castles The palaces were modest if compared to the western or Chinese patterns, but after the arrival of the European firearms, in the century XVI (a time of incessant internal wars), several wide and imposing castles were built about massive stone foundations, that had central towers that served as deposits. The castle of Himeji is it more notable.
* Adaptation of western lines Among the centuries XVII and XIX, Japan adopted a political isolacionista, but, about 1860, it began an industrialization process, following the western lines and adopting the European architectural tradition. However, it only went starting from to decade of 50 of the century XX that the country began to give its important contribution for the modern world architecture. Ever since, with the explosion of the civil construction, reflecting the fantastic economic growth of the postwar, Japan became a recognized excellence center and originality in terms of architectural projects. It plays it is the most important illustration of the modern Japanese architecture; its work reconciles the influence of he/she Reads Corbusier with the traditional forms of Japan.

The History of the Architecture is a subdivision of the History of the responsible Art for the study of the historical evolution of the architecture, its beginnings, ideas and accomplishments. This discipline, as well as any other form of historical knowledge, is subject to the limitations and potentialities of the history while science: several perspectives existed in relation to the study of the architecture, most of the which western.
In most of the cases (but not always), the periods studied by the History of the Architecture run parallel to the of the History of the Art, although they exist moments in that the aesthetics are put upon or made a mistake. Not rare, an aesthetics that vanguard is considered in the plastic arts he/she didn't still find its representation in the architecture, and vice-versa.
The Greek culture is developed mainly in the peninsula of Peloponeso, in the close islands and in the close Mediterranean coast to the actual Turkey, during the second and first milénios a.C. The more important considered period of the culture and of the Greek architecture it is that that is developed among it centuries VII a.C. and IV a.C. He/she concentrates on the religious architecture–temples–with great rigidity of dimensions, establishing proportions mathematically precise; the temples are built of stone (marble). Parthenon–temple dedicated to the goddess Atena, in the Acropolis of Athens–, erect among 447 a.C. and 438 a.C., in the government of Péricles, it is one of the more acquaintances and admired constructions of the period. A line marcante of the Greek architecture is the use of columns, establishing " characteristic orders ": dórica, jônica and Corinthian.

The medieval architecture was influenced mainly by the recrudescimento of the cities (and consequent ruralização of Europe and creation of feuds) and the ascension of the Catholic Church. As the secular power underwent the papal power, the Church that stopped the necessary capital to the development of the great architectural works became. The technology of the period was developed mainly in the construction of the cathedrals, being the tectonic knowledge under the control of the corporations of occupations.
During practically the whole medieval period, the architect's illustration (as being the creator solitarian of the architectural space and of the construction) it doesn't exist. The construction of the cathedrals, main constructive effort of the time, it is accompanied by the whole population and he/she interferes in the life of the community to its circuit. The constructive knowledge is kept by the corporations, which gathered dozens of master-obreiros (the architects in fact) that drove the execution of the works but they also elaborated them.

Egipto (4.000 a.C. - 30 a.C.) –The Egyptians give a monumental character to the temples and the mortuary constructions, notabilizando-if, among them, the pyramids, built of stone, when all the communities along the river Nile is unified in an only Empire (about 3.200 years a.C.). The first pyramid, " pyramid of steps ", it is built by architect Imhotep, as tomb of Djoser, founder of the III dynasty, in Saqqarah. The call pyramid of steps doesn't pass, in fact, of a constituted construction of primitive graves (mastabas), whose forms he/she/it resembled each other to a pyramid log, that you/they continued to be built for tombs of noblemen and other great employees of the State. The most well-known pyramids are Quéops, Quéfren and Miquerinos, of the IV dynasty, already with the geometric form that we knew, pointed by the Greek poet Antípater, in the century II a.C., as one of the seven marvels of the old world.