Sumerian architecture
May 29, 2009 by blogtopia
Filed under Architectural style
The Sumerians were people who lived in Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) from the mid 6th millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium BC. Among their architectural accomplishments are the invention of urban planning, the courtyard house, and ziggurat step pyramids. No architectural profession existed in Sumer; however, scribes drafted and managed construction for the government, nobility, or royalty.
The Sumerians were aware of ‘the craft of building’ as a divine gift taught to men by the gods as listed in me 28. Sumerian Architecture is the foundation of later Hebrew, Phoenician, Anatolian, Hittite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Islamic, and to a certain extent Grecoroman and therefore Western Architectures.
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