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context: architecture > medieval
Castles
Castles suddenly became much more important late in the 16th Century: a nation at war, with the new ingredient of plentiful gunpowder. We start to see mammoth stone bases, with the old kind of Chinese-style buildings, with their complex interactions of curved roofs, perched gracefully on top.