Romanesque Style

Romanesque Architecture is the architecture style of ancient Europe which mostly consists of semi-circular arches and developing from ancient Greek and Roman thought. It Approximately occurred between the range of 6th to the 10th century and continue developed into the Gothic style. By combining the features of Western Roman and Bysantine buildings, Romanesque architecture often can be observed through the massive quality, thick walls, round arches and usually emphasis on the symmetry. The University of California, UCLA campus in California, USA is one of the Romanesque style which was found as a Southern Branch of University of California in 1919. It was built by applying the idea of Romanesque architecture style. It can be seen obviously that the university campus’s structure is the mixture of Rome and Byzentine which contain its own reason and meaning. The significant of Rome structure is power which applied to the campus since the university is a respectful place. As well as being a church and museum, Byzentine style was brought to the structure because it represents knowledge and religion. In addition, the using of brick will increase the quality of ventilation in the building since it controls light density and humidity temperature in order to protect historic stuff inside.

This way, the question rises that why United States which is such a big country still need to borrow the idea of architecture from other countries?

United States of America was a newborn country created after many other countries and it is where contain the combination of people around the world. They have their own history but no originality in architectural style. Therefore, in order to building something beneficial or a good structure, they need to study and borrow the architecture from other countries.