Fortifications, military constructions or buildings designed to defend territories in warfare and/or to solidify rule in a region during peace time
Hostile architecture, a controversial urban design trend in which public spaces are constructed or altered to discourage people from using them in a way not intended by the owner
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Defensive design Functionalism (architecture) Privately owned public space New Urbanism Urban vitality Natural surveillance Also known as defensive architecture...
Defensivearchitecture can refer to: Fortifications, military constructions or buildings designed to defend territories in warfare and/or to solidify rule...
Project published a study entitled "Interface Barriers, Peacelines & DefensiveArchitecture" that identified 97 separate walls, barriers and interfaces in Belfast...
A battlement, in defensivearchitecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height)...
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple...
complex fortifications, which ranked among the most sophisticated defensivearchitecture of antiquity. The Theodosian Walls consisted of a double wall lying...
Italian Gothic architecture. The Romanesque period was a time of great development in the design and construction of defensivearchitecture. After churches...
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process...
traditionally used to define archaic states and empires: there is no defensivearchitecture at any Tiwanaku site or changes in weapon technology, there are...
potential threat to its safety. A Defensive Aid Suite (DAS) system can be used in conjunction with the NGVA architecture in combat vehicles as well. Active...
Stephen Johnson consider it an "architectural gem" and "one of the finest examples of late Norman defensivearchitecture". The keep comprises a circular...
philosophies of defensivearchitecture in Europe, China, and many other parts of the world. Even within the walls, a very different architectural style and...
("strong") and facere ("to make"). From very early history to modern times, defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive in an ever-changing...
Greeks in general appreciated the symbolism of war as expressed in defensivearchitecture, reflected by the visual impressiveness of their fortifications...
Defensive programming is a form of defensive design intended to develop programs that are capable of detecting potential security abnormalities and make...
fortifications which were regularly renovated and strengthened. Defensivearchitecture would continue to be a distinctive characteristic in later periods...
German (c.1545) defensivearchitecture/military engineering; brother of Camillo Mariani, early pioneer of modern French defensivearchitecture/military engineering...
centuries of architectural development visible, Rosenberg Fortress serves as an outstanding example of the evolution of defensivearchitecture in Germany...
rebuilt later, as it has strong traces of the architectural influence of the Moscow defensivearchitecture. The territory from the Transfiguration Tower...
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...
many ways to Henry II's innovative work at Dover and Orford. The defensivearchitecture of the castle also contains various weaknesses. The Inner Court...
was a change in castle architecture. Until the late 12th century castles generally had few towers; a gateway with few defensive features such as arrowslits...
Alberti alle proposte di Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1450-1495), in DefensiveArchitecture of the Mediterranean XV to XVIII centuries, a cura di G. Verdiani...
The architecture of the United Kingdom, or British architecture, consists of a combination of architectural styles, dating as far back to Roman architecture...
an important role in Mycenaean society. Material remains such as defensivearchitecture and weaponry show that they invested heavily in military infrastructure...
examples of defensivearchitecture in Dalmatia. The fortress is a remarkably comprehensive structure with three long rectangular defensive lines, consisting...