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 Gates in Late Antiquity In the Eastern Mediterranean....  |  Defending Renaissance Italy The Innovative Culture of Italian Military Engineers.... |  Guarding against Contagion This latest issue of ARX occasional papers (Issue 6/2016), authored by Dr.... |
 The Sighting towers in Basilicata "New life" for defence military architecture: the case of the sighting to... |  The myth of the motte and bailey castle in Scotland An assessment of medieval earthwork fortifications in Scotland and their relat... |  Archaeology of the New Zealand Wars The campaigns of the New Zealand Wars between Maori and Pakeha took place in v... |
 The Star Fort of Turin Star forts were the fortifications composed of many triangular bastions, creat... |  Vala Lui Traian You will search in vain for a reference to the Vatu tui Traian in any modern b... |  Late 18th century Russian Navy maps and the first 3D visualization of the walled city of Beirut.... |
Fortifications
 2016-03-14 The defences of the MerseyThe river Mersey was one of the most important rivers in the country in Victorian times as along its northern side was the port of Liverpool... |
 2015-09-20 Malatesta Fortresses and CastlesThe territory around Rimini is flat only in part.... |
 2015-04-16 Maxim Gorky Naval Battery, SevastopolAfter disastrous war with Japan in 1904-1905 Russian Imperial government decided to upgrade coastal defenses of the Sevastopol Navy Base in Crimea with two huge armored naval gun batteries.... |
 2014-12-30 St. Julian's Fort in CartagenaHistorical and architecural study of a late bastioned fort.... |
 2014-10-23 Mellieħa Ridge DefencesBritish Field Fortifications in the North of Malta at the turn of the Twentieth Century.... |
 2014-08-06 Forts and Castles of OmanThe Sultanate of Oman is situated in the extremesoutheast corner of the Arabian Peninsular... |
 2014-05-22 The Peter and Paul FortressIn the center of St.-Petersburg, on the small island of the river Neva, the stone walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress were the first construction of the city.... |
Building Science
 2016-06-06 Gnien is-SultanOne finds that most studies on the fortified city of Valletta are primarily concerned with the history and development of the city’s military architecture.... |
 2015-04-09 Substance and PracticeBuilding Technology and the Royal Engineers in Canada.... |
 2015-02-02 The Construction of Fort NegleyFort Negley's historical story lies in its design and construction history, not in its military engagements.... |
 2014-11-12 Fortified LagoonHistory of ideas of fortification in the Lagoon of Venice.... |
 2014-08-19 The Iron Duke's West Indian BarracksWellington's Uniform Barrack System crystallized a complex vision, imprinting an 1820s type on generations of military builders for over a century.... |
Siege Warfare
 2016-05-02 Bali de Souza’s CannonThe mid-eighteenth century was an important and frantic period in the military administration of the Hospitaller knights of St John.... |
 2014-04-15 The Early Effects of Gunpowder on Fortress DesignThe introduction of gunpowder did not immediately transform the battlefields of Europe.... |
Resources
2017-02-21 The myth of the motte and bailey castle in ScotlandAn assessment of medieval earthwork fortifications in Scotland and their relationship to traditional Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castles, and earlier Scottish sites.... |
2017-01-10 Archaeology of the New Zealand WarsThe campaigns of the New Zealand Wars between Maori and Pakeha took place in various North Island districts... |
2016-12-05 The Star Fort of TurinStar forts were the fortifications composed of many triangular bastions, created from 1520s,... |
2016-09-20 Late 18th century Russian Navy mapsand the first 3D visualization of the walled city of Beirut.... |
 2016-01-21 Ancient Architecture in SyriaFar out in the desert, in the midst of a rolling plain, beside the dry bed of an ancient stream, there is a deserted city.... |
Profiles
2017-07-21 Defending Renaissance ItalyThe Innovative Culture of Italian Military Engineers.... |
 2014-10-10 European Cartographers and the Ottoman WorldThe exhibit explores how mapmakers came to know and map the Ottoman world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.... |
 2013-05-30 Johann PleitnerJohann Pleitner was born in Nabburg (Bavaria-Ober Pfalz in Germany) to a well-off bourgeoise family.... |
 2012-12-20 Charles Augustin de CoulombCharles Augustin Coulomb's father was Henry Coulomb and his mother was Catherine Bajet.... |
 2012-08-22 Michelangelo's projects for the fortification of FlorenceThe Casa Buonarroti in Florence preserves a series of ground plans executed by Michelangelo for several fortifications of Florence in I529.... |
Conservation
2017-04-12 The Sighting towers in Basilicata"New life" for defence military architecture: the case of the sighting towers in Basilicata.... |
 2015-07-16 Appropriate Monumental Use of FortressesHardly a subject seems more suitable for comprehensively reflecting the international and interdisciplinary aspects of conservation,... |
 2015-05-28 Revitilising Historic RostovIn the Netherlands little is known about the shared cultural history at Rostov.... |
 2015-05-05 Lithuanian Hill forts from the airLithuania's hill-forts are merely a small part of the great mass of fortifications which extended throughout the European continent during prehistoric and early historical times.... |
Latest Articles
2017-09-18 Gates in Late AntiquityIn the Eastern Mediterranean.... |
2017-07-21 Defending Renaissance ItalyThe Innovative Culture of Italian Military Engineers.... |
2017-05-22 Guarding against ContagionThis latest issue of ARX occasional papers (Issue 6/2016), authored by Dr. Stephen C. Spiteri, is dedicated to the role that coastal fortifications and guard posts played in the Hospitaller knig... |
2017-04-12 The Sighting towers in Basilicata"New life" for defence military architecture: the case of the sighting towers in Basilicata.... |
2017-02-21 The myth of the motte and bailey castle in ScotlandAn assessment of medieval earthwork fortifications in Scotland and their relationship to traditional Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castles, and earlier Scottish sites.... |
2017-01-10 Archaeology of the New Zealand WarsThe campaigns of the New Zealand Wars between Maori and Pakeha took place in various North Island districts... |
2016-12-05 The Star Fort of TurinStar forts were the fortifications composed of many triangular bastions, created from 1520s,... |
2016-11-07 Vala Lui TraianYou will search in vain for a reference to the Vatu tui Traian in any modern book on Roman frontiers.... |
2016-09-20 Late 18th century Russian Navy mapsand the first 3D visualization of the walled city of Beirut.... |
2016-07-28 Third Centenary of Coastal BatteriesThis year, 2016, marks the third centenary since the completion of the Hospitaller Knights' ambitious programme of coastal defences embarked upon in 1714-1716... |
2016-07-05 Buttevant Town WallsConservation, Management and Interpretation plan.... |
2016-06-13 3D Reconstructions of Hospitaller FortificationsMilitary Architecture.com is happy to announce that the first phase of an ambitious project which seeks to create 3D computer simulations of ALL the fortifications built, occupied, or adapted by the... |
2016-06-06 Gnien is-SultanOne finds that most studies on the fortified city of Valletta are primarily concerned with the history and development of the city’s military architecture.... |
2016-05-26 NEW BOOK: Lines of DefenceA new, beautifully-produced book containing eighteenth-century plans and elevations of the fortifications built and projected by the Hospitaller Knights of St. John in the Maltese islands has recent... |
2016-05-02 Bali de Souza’s CannonThe mid-eighteenth century was an important and frantic period in the military administration of the Hospitaller knights of St John.... |
2016-04-06 Matteo Perez d'Aleccio's FortificationPublic lecture by Dr Stephen C. Spiteri PhD organised by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta, in collaboration with Din l-Art Helwa.... |
2016-03-14 The defences of the MerseyThe river Mersey was one of the most important rivers in the country in Victorian times as along its northern side was the port of Liverpool... |
2016-02-18 Encyclopaedia of Hospitaller Military ArchitectureMilitaryArchitecture.com is working to issue its online publications on the fortifications and military architecture of the Hospitaller Knights of the Order of St. John,... |
2016-02-13 Silent Sentinels of WWIIA short video feature produced by MilitaryArchitecture.com to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the End of the Second World War... |
2016-02-04 Refurbished Birgu DitchWednesday 27 January 2016 saw the inauguration and opening of Birgu’s land front ditch (il-Foss) following its rehabilitation by the Restoration Directorate as part of an ERDF project dedicated to... |
2016-01-25 ARX Occasional Papers 5 - On the Study of Military ArchitectureThe significance of military architecture, why it deserves to be studied and how.... |
2016-01-21 Ancient Architecture in SyriaFar out in the desert, in the midst of a rolling plain, beside the dry bed of an ancient stream, there is a deserted city.... |
2015-12-28 New Book on ERDF Restoration WorksThe Restoration Directorate within the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government, Malta, has launched a new book documenting its work on the restoration and rehabilitation of the hist... |
2015-12-14 Scotland's castlesRescued, rebuilt and reoccupied, 1945-2010. ... |
2015-11-18 The Idea of the CastleIn Medieval England.... |
2015-10-16 ART EXHIBITION - Silent Sentinels of WWIIIn commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the End of the Second World War, Military Architecture.com is holding an exhibition of original pen drawings of concrete defences from World War Two... |
2015-10-13 Fortifications of the Great SiegeThis 40-minute video documentary, produced by www.militaryarchitecture.com on the occasion of the 450 anniversary of the Great Siege, takes a look at the fortications of the Hospitaller Knights of S... |
2015-10-11 Guthrie's Rolling BridgeFollowing a visit to The Verne Citadel, Portland, by Geoffrey Salter and Peter Davies (H.C.C. Architect) it has been possible to examine the surviving pieces of a Guthrie rolling... |
2015-10-07 The Visual Power of Military ArchitectureIn the Baroque Age... |
2015-09-20 Malatesta Fortresses and CastlesThe territory around Rimini is flat only in part.... |
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