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The styles and movements of world architecture, from the orders of Greece and the engineering of Rome through Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque to the modern movement and everything built against it since. Grouped into eight period-based bands, distinct from the individual buildings that exemplify a style and from the architects who worked within or against it, and from the milestone that may mark a style's founding or a manifesto that named it.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia, Egyptian pyramids, Old Kingdom sectionQuote, Wikipedia, Egyptian pyramids, Old Kingdom section
the Pyramid of Djoser built c. 2630-2610 BC during the Third Dynasty. This pyramid and its surrounding complex are generally considered to be the world's oldest monumental structures constructed of dressed masonry.
View the Source Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
Banister Fletcher, edited by Dan Cruickshank (20th edition), Architectural Press, 1996
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