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	American Architecture - MSN Encarta
		Thomas Jefferson’s use of the Roman temple in Nîmes as a model for his Virginia State Capitol in 1785 marked the beginning of a series of historical revivals that swept both Europe and the United States in the 19th century.
		Compared with the architecture in many areas of Europe and in other parts of the world, the architecture of the United States developed with remarkable uniformity.
		High Victorian Gothic architecture, inspired by contemporary work in England and by the critical writing of John Ruskin, appealed to an American desire for more picturesque variety in building styles.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_461575773_3/American_Architecture.html (1652 words)

	American architecture - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Colonial architecture was subsequently adapted to the topography and climate of the chosen site, the availability of building materials, the dearth of trained builders and artisans, and the general poverty of the settlers.
		Architecture, previously the domain of gentlemen amateurs and master builders, became increasingly professionalized in the first half of the 19th cent.
		Architectural schools were established in the United States along the model of the École, beginning with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1865.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-amer-arch.html (1923 words)

	tja: Part 4
		Of the later library we have the catalogue of the sale of 1829, Note: p90f2 although this was not quite exhaustive, as is shown by the catalogue of a residue sold in 1873.
		Note: p91m3 Jefferson's own copies of the works today, were they accessible, might assist in the study of his designs, as well as of his general knowledge of architecture, through marginal annotations or evidences of wear on certain plates.
		Note: p91m4 Below are given, in an arrangement alphabetical by authors, the titles of the various books on architecture and gardening which Jefferson owned at one time or another, with the dates of their acquisition and of their disposal, by him or his heirs, so far as these dates are ascertainable.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /wilson/TJA/tja.body4.html (2817 words)

	UH Course Catalog - ARCH Course Descriptions
		Survey of the history of eastern and western architecture and art from ancient Egypt to 1500 in the first semester and from 1500 to the present in the second semester, with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical forces that influence them.
		Seminar investigating Parisian architecture and urban development from the Roman period to the present via the metaphor of the palimpsest.
		An exploration of the cross-fertilization between architecture and film by examining how architecture is represented in film; the narrative aspect of architecture, film as a mirror of the present and as anticipation of the future of architecture, auteur cinema/director vs. architecture/architect, and the idea of gesamtkunstwerk.
	www.uh.edu /academics/catalog/arc/arch_courses.html (1500 words)

	1785 in architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Architecture is the practice of designing any buildings or structures.
		The current practice of Architecture can be broken down into Three general forms of expression: Classical architecture is based on Greek and Roman design methods that can be traced even further to Egyptian and Byzantine models.
		Architecture is their core service but they are...
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1785_in_architecture.html (748 words)

	UH Course Catalog - ARCH Courses
		Prerequisites: Must be architecture major and have credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 1100.
		Prerequisite: ARCH 1501 or consent of the instructor.
		Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351 or consent of the instructor.
	www.uh.edu /academics/catalog/archives/2001-03_archive/arc/arch_courses.html (1303 words)

	architecture
		Robertson's other contribution to the architecture of the campus it seems that we are shortly to miss, in the interest of the extension to the corner of the double quadrangle of which Campbell Hall and Sage Hall form the existing half.
		For all that, Alexander is one of the architectural possessions of Princeton, a vigorous, consistent and refined piece of work, carried out, without and within, with an amplitude of means which the artistic skill employed upon them prevents at any point from degenerating into mere ostentation or sumptuosity.
		That the architecture of a university, or even of a college, should have something of uniformity and consistency, not only from year to year, but from generation to generation, that buildings in sight of one another should be designed with reference to one another - these are propositions sufficiently obvious, one would say.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Otherdocs/architecture.html (7600 words)

	Grand Tradition \| Classical Arts and Architecture on the Web
		Although the Piccirilli Brothers were known primarily as architectural modelers and the carvers of other sculptors’ works, both Attilio and Furio developed names for themselves as sculptors independent of the family.
		Bulfinch was born in Boston to Thomas Bulfinch, a prominent physician, and educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard University, from which he graduated with an AB in 1781 and Master's degree in 1784.
		Brunelleschi's buildings and Donatello's monuments are the supreme expressions of the spirit of this era in architecture and sculpture, and exercised a potent influence upon the painters of the age.
	www.grandtradition.net (1655 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.
		His desire to establish a sense of cultural tradition in this new country is reflected in his architecture.
	www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0040/syl/src1120.html (853 words)

	victorian architecture - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		The architecture of Victorian London was an integral...
		Alongside...Lectures on Architecture and Painting...drastically the Victorian understanding...celebration of Gothic architecture.
		Otto Wagner and the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture as Misunderstanding
	www.questia.com /search/victorian-architecture (1702 words)

	ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM OF THE PITTSBURGH REGION
		Some notable examples of infill architecture have been modern or post-modern buildings that fit in well despite their obvious break with the older environment, but Pittsburgh is particularly strong also in the "new urbanism" and "contextual" architectural design that deliberately seek to blend new buildings with our older building heritage.
		The Architectural Heritage of Early Western Pennsylvania (ends in 1840s; good for certain surviving buildings in the Pittsburgh periphery, such as "Woodville" or stone houses in Crafton and the South Hills).
		I am impressed that both the social and architectural character of the street (which is also a kind of highway) comes from two building types: churches and car-dealerships.
	www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0510/pghsyll.html (5597 words)

	Portland State \| News \| Architecture students build a dream for local family
		Senior undergraduate students in a PSU architecture studio class earned real-world experience in designing a home for Habitat for Humanity.
		The students were challenged to design a 900-square-foot home for a small, 25-by-100 foot plot of land in northeast Portland.
		Ground was broken for the house last spring with several of the architecture students participating in building the house alongside Habitat volunteers.
	www.pdx.edu /news/1785 (169 words)

	1785
		University of Georgia: HistoryWhen the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a...
		Romantic Period, 1785 - 1830A brief overview of writers of the Romantic period.
		1785 - Wikipedie, otevren encyklopedieRoky: 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 - 1785 - 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790...
	constitutionalconvention.fishconvention.com /1785 (535 words)

	Greek Revival Architecture
		Jefferson believed in architecture as a symbol; he despised Williamsburg due to English origins: Williamsburg represented colonial exploitation.
		In 1785: construction of Jefferson's Virginia State Capitol: first building of the neoclassical movement in either U.S. or Europe.
		To Jefferson architecture was a form of visual education in support of democratic ideal.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~twp/architecture/greek (467 words)

	Paul Halsall/Fordham University/Medieval New York Guide
		Architecture presents perhaps the most dramatic impact of the Middle Ages in New York.
		Byzantine church architecture in the large domed basilica form represented by Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is represented in New York only in a somewhat odd fashion by Holy Trinity RC Church on West 82nd St. Later styles - which emphasized smaller churches with domes on a square base - are more visible.
		It is of interest to medievalists for three reasons: it is constructed in a medieval architectural style; it is dedicated to a medieval saint; and it is still run by a medieval religious order.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/medny.html (3982 words)

	BU Libraries \| Research Guides \| Architecture
		Other bibliographies on aspects of architecture can be found by searching the Boston University Online Catalog.
		A standardized architectural vocabulary is published in the Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online by the Getty Art History Information Program (XZ 695.1 A7 A76 1990).
		Architectural design terms arranged alphabetically in English with corresponding words in the other four languages.
	www.bu.edu /library/guides/architect.html (2167 words)

	Sag Harbor Architecture
		Sag Harbor's architecture is also a study in 18th and 19th century Eastern Long Island history.
		From 1785 to 1820, the mood of American architects belonged to the Federal style.
		A less austere example of Greek Revival architecture is the L'Hommedieu House (circa 1840), located on the south corner of Bayview and Main Streets.
	www.sagharborchamber.com /architecture.htm (793 words)

	EbXML Architecture in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		See also 1794 in architecture, 1795 other events of 1795, 1796 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
		See also 1944 in architecture, 1945 other events of 1945, 1946 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
		See also 1784 in architecture, 1785 other events of 1785, 1786 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/EbXML+Architecture (761 words)

	University Libraries of Notre Dame, Architecture - July 2000 New Books
		Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change.
		Architectural representation handbook : traditional and digital techniques for graphic communication.
		Healthcare architecture in an era of radical transformation.
	www.nd.edu /~archlib/newbooks/archive_2000/0007_125.html (600 words)

	History of Architecture
		Architectural theory, from the Renaissance to the present: 89 essays on 117 treatises.
		Architecture everywhere: investigating the built environment of your community, by Joseph A. Weber.
		Introduces the reader to the essential qualities of architecture as revealed through history, and provide an "appreciation of the general state of the architectural world as it appears at the close of the 20th century." Includes bibliographies.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/ArchHist.html#world (5432 words)

	History of Landscape Architecture
		However, includes substantial articles on the landscape architecture and gardening traditions of 12 countries or regions (e.g., 12 page article each on the history of gardening in the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as 173 brief biographies of landscape architects and gardeners (e.g., Roberto Burle-Marx, Thomas Church, Beatrix Farrand, and Hermann Puckler-Muskau).
		California landscape architecture and gardens (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to historical and contemporary California landscape architecture in the UC Berkeley libraries and on the web.
		The entire issue is focused on the history of landscape architecture in the 20th century.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/histland.html (3958 words)

	Bibliography: Architecture
		Bloom, J. and Blair, S. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800".
		Islamic art and architecture : the system of geometric design; edited by Tarek El-Bouri and Keith Critchlow ; general editor Salma Samar Damluji.
		Michell, G. Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning".
	www.islamicart.com /library/bib/architecture.html (360 words)

	New York Architecture Images- FRAUNCES TAVERN
		Mersereau's reconstruction (following the fire of 1900) is a conjectural rebuilding of the original Fraunces Tavern, in other words, it is a 20th century interpretation of the general characteristics of Georgian Style architecture.
		Fraunces Tavern was originally built as a house for Oliver de Lancey, a member of the prominent Delancey family that contended with the Livingstons for leadership in colonial New York.
		On April 23, 1785, Samuel Fraunces sold his tavern, ending his 23 years as owner of one of New York City’s most famous gathering places.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /LM/LM020-FRAUNCESTAVERN.htm (2086 words)

	BRILL
		All those interested in Islamic architecture and decoration, particularly the more recent periods, in the cultural, political, and religious history of 18th/19th-century Iran, in inscriptions, the Iranian city.
		The book studies late 18th to mid-19th century Iranian architecture in mosques and madrasas, entering a widely unknown architectural period.
		The introduction places the buildings as religious and political architecture in the context of the early Qājār monarchy and the rising urban elites.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=21953 (550 words)

	english architecture - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...Traditional architecture in an English landscape Matthew...contribute to English landscape and...and traditional architecture of the American...an approach in English studies of traditional architecture, it cannot be...
		...Raymond Unwin, the architecture drew its inspiration from English Domestic Revivalists...introductions in English to pre-WWII architecture are Lane, Pommer...after the war in English are Marshall...Contemporary Architecture in Germany, 1970-1996...
		Siblings and Suitors in the Narrative Architecture of the Tenant of Wildfell Hall
	www.questia.com /search/english-architecture (1616 words)

	Module 14: Advanced Research: Finding Information - Architecture Studies Library
		The University of Cincinnati Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library “Architecture Research/ Frequently Asked Questions” covers information searches such as finding information on an architect, a building, a period; and how to search for plans http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/daap/resources/researchguides/architecture/arch_faq.html.
		To find an index/database in a discipline outside of architecture, go to the subject page for the discipline http://www.library.unlv.edu/subjects/ or scan through the list of indexes at http://www.library.unlv.edu/search/databases/index.html and read the description for each index.
		The Architecture Studies Library also has print volumes of specialized libraries or collections, which can be especially useful for historical information and research.
	www.library.unlv.edu /arch/instr/mod14a.html (1995 words)

	1785 Did You Mean 1785? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		1782 1783 1784 - 1785 - 1786 1787 1788
		1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
		January 1 The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.
	www.did-you-mean.com /1785.html (474 words)

	Architecture - How To Library
		This section includes information about architect plans, architectural details of historic homes, building for hurricanes, and more.
		Bob meets with Allan Cox from Nawkaw Corporation, on the front of the New York restoration project to discuss the bricks.
		Bob plays hooky and takes us on a tour of the nearby CBS Studio Center, the first of the great big movie lots that gave Studio City its name.
	www.bobvila.com /HowTo_Library/Architecture-2-C753.html (471 words)

	Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2006.1010
		For realtime coverage of current architecture, please visit ArchitectureWeek, our weekly magazine of design and building.
		Bibliotheque Nationale, by Etienne-Louis Boullee, at Paris, France, 1785.
		Bloemenwerf House, by Henry van de Velde, at Uccle, near Brussels, Belgium, 1895 to 1896.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings.html (11328 words)

	Art History 111 Imagebase
		Below, organized in roughly the order of your syllabus, are some of the images-- paintings, maps, photographs, works of sculpture, works of architecture, city plans, designed objects-- that you will look at over this semester.
		Anonymous, outer gopura of the Minakshi-Sundareshvara Temple, 13th-10th centures, architecture Indian.
		Cross section of a Hopi and Zuni Pueblo, architecture.
	www.uic.edu /depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/imagebank.html (2525 words)

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