INT231-History of Interiors Blog
INT231- History of Interiors Blog By:Nicol Valeria Torres Villamil Week 1 – Prehistoric Architecture and Interiors This week we studied Prehistoric Architecture and Interiors, focusing on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. These early examples of architecture involve a lot of creativity and invention. To begin with the progress, humans initially lived in temporary homes. The settlements they built were made of stone, thatch and mud, and they were typically used. The most amazing example that can be noticed in the period is the Lascaux Caves in France, that paints a picture of how art existed way before the civilisation structuring that we know of today. Starting from Neolithic period, people stacked stones to make megalithic monuments. Inrelating to the preceding statement, menhirs and dolmens, capped either or both ways of stone pink to white, introduced post-and-lintel, which advanced a significant lot in the field of Architecture. One of the m...