HOA CHARACTERISTICS

1. Monumental

2. Use of readily available materials

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1. Post and Lintel

2. Columnar and Trabeated

3. Simplicity, Monumentality

4. Solidity or Massiveneas

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1. Massiveness

2. Monumentaliry

3. Grandeur

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1. Thick walls made of mud

2. Buttresses

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1. Walled Cities

2. Interiors: Richly decorated & Luxurious

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1. Ziggurat

2. Ornamented in color-glazed brick works

3. Use of bitumen as mortar

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1. Created Qanat Irrigation

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1. River in Mesopotamia

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1. River along Egyptian Architecture

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1. Simplicity & Harmony

2. Purity of Lines

Perfection in Proportions

3. Refinent of detail

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