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  Architecture - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
In architecture, the principles and styles of ancient Greece and Rome were revived and reinterpreted, to remain dominant until the 20th century.
In early Renaissance and even Mannerist architecture, elements were combined in rather static compositions; classic design implies a serene balance among the several components, and spaces locked into the geometry of perspective.
Jefferson, whose early virtuosity had been demonstrated in Monticello (1770-1784), was also moved by ancient Rome, and placed a version (1817-1826) of the Pantheon at the head of his magnificent Lawn at the University of Virginia.
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 Architecture - MSN Encarta
These developments reinforced the grip of neoclassicism in England, and the resulting type of architecture became popularly known as the Georgian style.
In what was to become the northeastern United States, Peter Harrison and Samuel McIntire took their cues from English architects in their own version of Georgian architecture, which was called Federal after the United States won independence.
French architectural thought had been jolted at the turn of the century by the highly imaginative published projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicholas Ledoux.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578082_9/Architecture.html   (1223 words)

  
 English Renaissance - Georgian Architecture
It has already been stated that the character of Renaissance architecture depended largely on the personal whim and fancy of the architects (p.
Architectural design was not practised only on single and detached buildings.
Monumental street architecture was also successfully carried out, as by the Woods at Bath between the years A.D. 1720 and 178o (p.
www.oldandsold.com /articles23/architecture-131.shtml   (2342 words)

  
 Neoclassical architecture
In architecture, neoclassicism was the dominant style in Europe during 1750s-1850s, marked by the imitation of Greco-Roman forms.
Classical architectural models were adapted or referenced in a range of architectural forms, including churches, arches, temple, house, terraces, garden monuments and interior designs.
The architectural impact of the Picturesque was the new emphasis it placed on architecture as part of an environment.
www.geocities.com /rr17bb/neoarch.html   (2405 words)

  
 An Architectural History of Wakefield
The style of architecture that spanned this entire period of prosperity and growth was the Queen Anne style.
Closely allied with the Rational Revival is the Craftsman style, the expression in architecture of an entire aesthetic generated by Gustave Stickley The Craftsman aim for honesty and simplicity in construction.
It is the period of architecture which set its stamp most firmly on Wakefield's downtown, its public buildings and public and private institutions.
www.wakefieldma.org /architecture.html   (1706 words)

  
 GO to CRIMEA
The Tatars (the nomads in the past) didn`t have any their own traditions at architecture so they used creative achievments of those cultures, which were connected with by the war campaigns.
All the architectural elements of this structure as well as its ornaments were made in spirit of mature Renaissance; only the inscription and one of the decorative motifs pertain to the Orient.
This remarkable monument of architecture, created in 1764 by Omer, has become a poetic image, a symbol of live human sorrow embodied in cold stone.
www.go2crimea.com /en/index.php?p=31&s=10   (1154 words)

  
 gothicoverview.html
The transition from Romanesque and Norman architecture to Gothic is especially evident in Canterbury and St. Alban's Cathedral.
By 1600 the dominant architectural style for public buildings, churches, and private estates was neoclassical, except in areas like Oxford and Cambridge, where the Gothic style continued unchecked in reverence for tradition.
Thus during a period of what was otherwise neoclassical ideals in architecture (and other arts as well), the Gothic art and architecture of the Middle Ages became associated with traditional English values, particularly liberty.
www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~rviau/gothicoverview.html   (1661 words)

  
 Prof Gerard Ciolek (1909-1966)
Architecture, in his view, was an ideal discipline as it enabled equal interaction with art, nature, and people.
In the mid-1930s Gerard Ciolek was a research assistant to professor Oskar Sosnowski (1880-1939) at the Politechnika, a man under whom he deepened his studies on Polish folk architecture, and the conservation of architectural heritage.
Between 1946 and his death in 1966 Gerard Ciolek was a lecturer at the Institute of Architecture at the Politechnika Warszawska.
www.ciolek.com /PEOPLE/ciolek-ga.html   (2670 words)

  
 Architecture
At the same time, a considerable part of Danish architecture is regionally anchored, particularly housing, which is developing the dense, low concept of the 1970s into a contemporary style.
During the Renaissance, Danish architecture was dominated by the building of manor houses such as the 16th century Hesselagergaard and Egeskov, both on Funen.
In both castles the actual architectural expression, the decorative finish, was in the preferred Dutch Renaissance style, with lavish sandstone ornamentation on a red brick background.
www.um.dk /publikationer/um/english/factsheetdenmark/architecture/html/chapter01.htm   (2503 words)

  
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In the official lists in sections 6.2 - 6.10, an asterisk (*) next to a protocol denotes that it is new to this document or has been moved from one protocol level to another, or differs from the previous edition of this document.
While they may be proposed as a service protocol at a later stage, and thus become proposed standard, draft standard, and then standard protocols, the designation of a protocol as experimental may sometimes be meant to suggest that the protocol, although perhaps mature, is not intended for operational use.
Sometimes one protocol is replaced by another and thus becomes historic, or it may happen that a protocol on the standards track is in a sense overtaken by another protocol (or other events) and becomes historic (state 5).
www.faqs.org /rfc/rfc1920.txt   (5572 words)

  
 baroque architecture - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
...Pevsner, "The Architecture of Mannerism...achieved in Baroque painting...Beside this architecture the monuments of Baroque with rare exceptions...men of the Baroque were...Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600...
A most influential architecture critic, Geoffrey Scott, was overtly traditionalist in his...and Spanish architects created a revivalist, nostalgic, and baroque movement during the 1910s that was the antithesis of the modernism...
Architecture with a snap: photographer G.E...masterpiece is a dazzling exercise of the Baroque imagination combining convex and...for nearly 60 years, revealing architecture through beautifully composed images...in the Source Book of American Architecture, published this month by the Princeton...
www.questia.com /search/baroque-architecture   (1587 words)

  
 Spanish painter VENTURA RODRÍGUEZ
Even in his childhood he was responsible for some tasks, but after the death of Fernando VI in 1759 the Court that was domineered by Sabatini and Juan de Villanueva ostracized him, and Ventura Rodríguez could not establish himself as a great architect of the Court as he wanted in his youth.
Taking orders from Caro Idrogo, Ventura Rodríguez, being in his teens at that time, worked as a designer until, as a result of the fire in Alcazar in 1734, he was called by Juvara to work under his guidance as a designer in the new Royal Palace where he was supervising the work.
In 1752 he was appointed Director of Architecture in the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the institutuon that he will run two times afterwards (in 1766 and 1775).
www.josedelamano.net /pages/venturarodriguez.htm   (809 words)

  
 Baroque Architecture of St. Petersburg
The early eighteeth-century architectural ensembles were mainly constructed in the style known as the Petrine Baroque.
The small buildings of the period are characterized by laconic architectural forms and festive colourfulness.
The eighteenth-century architecture greatly influenced the shaping of the city appearence.
russia-in-us.com /St.Peterburg   (207 words)

  
 Selected Architecture Rare Books - Syracuse University Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Selected Architecture Rare Book Titles in Special Collections
Architecture de Palladio, divisee en quatre livres...avec des notes d'Inigo Jones...
Architecture de Palladio, contenant les cinq ordres d'architecture...
libwww.syr.edu /research/internet/architecture/rarebooks.html   (344 words)

  
 Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)
Benjamin Latrobe was born in Fulneck, England on May 1, 1764.
Latrobe is credited with professionalizing architecture in America, and his building designs influenced the United States until the Civil War.
In 1817, Latrobe received the news that his eldest son, Henry, had died of yellow fever in New Orleans where he was engaged in several civil engineering tasks.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/l/ed_latrobeBH.htm   (506 words)

  
 architecture
In that study he will define the national origins of our culture, note how the elements drawn from European countries were modified and combined in the New World, and trace the final emergence of a distinctly American civilization.
It is now impossible to determine which played the chief role in the shaping of the famous old building, but it is probable that Smith drew the plans and Shippen modified them to suit the needs of the college.
John Notman, noted as the designer of St. Mark's, the Church of the Holy Trinity, St. Clement and many residences in the Philadelphia region, and of "Prospect" and "Guernsey Hall" in Princeton, was a devotee of the Florentine school of architecture so popular in the fifth and sixth decades of the century.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Otherdocs/evolution.html   (2191 words)

  
 University Embankment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It was constructed between 1718 and 1734 and is a prime example of Russian Baroque architecture.
The Academy of Arts was built between 1764 and 1768 by Alexander Kokorinov and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe.
In 1764 a junior school was added to the academy, and a class of sixty six-year-olds was enrolled.
it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pete11/university.htm   (706 words)

  
 Manas: Culture, Architecture of India, Taj Mahal
It is reliably reported and documented that two great silver doors to the entrance were looted and melted down by Suraj Mal in 1764, and a sheet of pearls that covered the sarcophagus was carried off by Amir Husein Ali Khan in 1720.
In a manner of speaking, the pillage of the Taj continues unabated: more recently, the fumes from the surrounding industries have started deteriorating the marble, though various court orders have resulted in industries around the Taj being moved to more distant points.
While it never fails to move and dazzle, one can scarcely forget that its history, like that of other monumental achievements of pre-modern (and even modern) states, is bound to oppression and slavery.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Culture/Archit/TajM.html   (875 words)

  
 New York City : Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Federal combined Georgian architecture with the delicacy of the French rococo and the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
Architecture was chosen as one of the vehicles to bring this message to the people.
The architecture of Italy served as the inspiration for this building style, which could be as picturesque as the Gothic or as restrained as the classical.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=21&catID=0021026568   (3337 words)

  
 18th Century Architecture
On the interior, mirrors, wall panelling, and window openings are united by rocaille ornament: a free, curvilinear two- dimensional pattern of crisp stucco plant and shell forms, in arabesques and cartouches, open and lively in contour and occasionally asymmetrical.
Thomas Jefferson (American, 1743-1826), an architect as well as a statesman and a scholar, was well read in the classicist theories of architecture and acquainted with the famous models of European classicism.
Abbe Laugier: Essai sur l'architecture (Essay on Architecture), 1753 [ 127 frontispiece for 1755 edition, showing the "natural" state of architecture].
www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0040/syl/src1120.html   (853 words)

  
 RFC 1920 - Internet Official Protocol Standards
Few protocols are required to be implemented in all systems; this is because there is such a variety of possible systems, for example, Internet Architecture Board Standards Track [Page 4] RFC 1920 Internet Standards March 1996 gateways, routers, terminal servers, workstations, and multi-user hosts.
Internet Architecture Board Standards Track [Page 11] RFC 1920 Internet Standards March 1996 (3) Refer to an Area Director for review by a WG.
Internet Architecture Board Standards Track [Page 17] RFC 1920 Internet Standards March 1996 1878 - Variable Length Subnet Table For IPv4 This is an information document and does not specify any level of standard.
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 Workhouse Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Many of these were in East Anglia, such as Samford (1764) and Stow (1778).
The early nineteenth century saw architectural developments that were to become significant in workhouse design.
Kempthorne's model plans were also adopted by another significant figure in workhouse architecture, George Wilkinson.
users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/buildings/buildings.html   (2122 words)

  
 Architecture and Planning in mid-19th-century Paris
Architectural viewpoints in mid-19th-century France: Neoclassicism and Eclecticism: The French Revolution of 1789 and the rise of Napoleon.
Ecole architecture stands for an educational method and a design philosophy.
The problem of color in architecture: Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867) proposes polychromy based on investigations of Greek temples in Sicily.
www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu /courses/arch170/past/SP2000/4-6-00.html   (449 words)

  
 History & Architecture - History of the City
The architectural legacy of the city's past is much younger, testimony to the impermanent quality of the earliest structures and to St. Augustine's troubled history.
Vestiges of the First Spanish Colonial Period (1565-1764) remain today in St. Augustine in the form of the town plan originally laid out by Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canzo in the late sixteenth century and in the narrow streets and balconied houses that are identified with the architecture introduced by settlers from Spain.
Throughout the modern city and within its Historic Colonial District, there remain thirty-six buildings of colonial origin and another forty that are reconstructed models of colonial buildings.
www.historicstaugustine.com /history/history.html   (216 words)

  
 Seeley G. Mudd Library : FAQ Architecture
There are many online databases and finding aids that will assist the researcher in finding information regarding Princeton's architectural history.
A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch is a one-volume compendium describing many aspects of Princeton's history ranging from biographical articles on eminent Princetonians to thumbnail histories of campus buildings.
An Interactive Campus History, 1746-1996, is an online architectural history and database of the Princeton campus created in honor of the 250th anniversary of the University.
www.princeton.edu /mudd/news/faq/sources/architecture.shtml   (208 words)

  
 Seeley G. Mudd Library : Architecture Database
You may conduct a keyword search to retrieve a listing of boards that meet your criteria.
Information returned will include a description of the board and the view depicted, and when available, the architect, architectural firm, and other contractor details.
In addition to this database, the Interactive Campus Map contains information on the development of campus facilities from 1746-1996 (see in particular the historical archives page where one may search by building or agent (e.g., architect, firm, etc.)).
www.princeton.edu /~mudd/databases/architecture.html   (99 words)

  
 Harnessing Risk for Business Benefit
Change that is driven or affected by innovation is critical to acknowledge in a long-term relationship comprising IT infrastructure or ongoing application outsourcing.
To this end, "Managing Risk in Implementing a Web Services Architecture" (M-16-1764) highlights the risks associated with moving toward an Internet-focused technology architecture to enable more collaboration between an enterprise and members of its value chain.
An IT architecture provides enterprises with a solid foundation to strategically guide their technology investments.
www.gartner.com /DisplayDocument?doc_cd=106591   (1249 words)

  
 glbtq >> Arts >> Architecture
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual people have contributed significantly to the field of architecture and to the creation of queer space.
As part of its reaction against the industrialism of the nineteenth century, the Arts and Crafts movement, which emphasized handcrafted decorative works of art and architecture, created medieval-type artists' guilds, which have been seen as homosocial.
A dominating force in American architecture, Philip C. Johnson had a chameleon-like career in which he often reinvented himself.
www.glbtq.com /topic/arts_75.html   (259 words)

  
 SYLLABUS FOR CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE
Ten Books on Architecture (translated by Ingrid D. Rowland with commentary and illustrations by Thomas Noble Howe; 1999); needs to be read as soon as possible during January.
Four Books on Architecture (with the 1570 illustrations; translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield; 1997); needs to be read before the mid-term on March 4th; includes many of the best representations of Roman buildings and important information on proportions and construction as well as Palladio’s own designs.
This is the other of the two most influential architecture books ever published.
www.cofc.edu /~waddelle/ClassicTradition2004.htm   (6002 words)

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