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  ARCHITECTURE
Strickland, an outstanding exponent of the Greek Revival in America acquired his architectural training under the renowned Benjamin Latrobe In 1836 Strickland had been one of the organizers and the first president of the American Institution of Architects, the organization which anticipated the later founding (1857) of the American Institute of Architects.
"The architecture of the building consists of a Doric basement, four Ionic porticoes, two of eight and two of six columns four feet in diameter, surmounted by a Corinthian tower in the center of the roof, the whole height of which is to be 170 feet from the summit of the site.
The future architecture of the Tennessee Valley is indicated by the city of Norris, where a new standard for rural existence is being set.
newdeal.feri.org /guides/tnguide/ch16.htm   (3779 words)

  
 The Colgate Scene - September 1997 - Village Architecture
Pevsner’s view of architecture as "the art of the establishment" (churches and palaces are never cheap) was shared by most architectural historians.
For the past ten years, at family weekends and reunions, I’ve given architectural tours of the village and I’m always gratified by the enthusiastic response of guests to our architectural environment and the fine examples of the vernacular styles of the nineteenth century.
They associated historic architectural styles with cultural values: the architecture of fifth-century B.C. Greece symbolized their democratic aspirations and the Gothic style of thirteenth-century Europe echoed their fascination with the picturesqueness of the Middle Ages.
www4.colgate.edu /scene/sept1997/architecture.html   (1552 words)

  
 19th Century Architecture: Backward
REVIVALS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE: Successive and simultaneous revivals of historical styles are symptomatic of a desire for a stable and continuing tradition in the midst of the revolutionary changes of the industrial age.
Richardson's Romanesque vocabulary was generally consistent with his basic principles of architectural planning: aggregation of simple units and emphasis on the massiveness of construction in stone.
All architecture throughout history had been constrained by local conditions: local building materials, local workmen and their traditions, local taste, specifics of the local climate (hot or cold, dusty or damp, daytime and nighttime), local architectural iconography.
www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0040/syl/src1127.html   (913 words)

  
 AMERICAN GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
Dedicated to Harry Borchers, my Architecture History Professor at Ohio State University- he breathed life into history and made us experience it as though we were there in flesh.
It might be noted that those farmers carried their design sensitivities to all sides of their houses, and even to the smallest hog shed or well house.
1802 bridge on the old National Route in West Virginia is now under water from a dam.
www.archdirect.com /american_greek_revival_architecture.htm   (614 words)

  
 Photographs Collection
Architecture is interpreted in its widest sense and the collection thus contains images of related topics such as interior design, landscape architecture, topography, construction, and the applied arts.
Entitled Architecture and Design Illustrated' it is available from the RIBA Bookshop for £59.95 and at a reduced price to RIBA members of £29.95.
This book is devoted to John Maltby (1910-80) an architectural photographer whose career spanned five decades and produced some of the most enduringly evocative images of British architecture and design during the twentieth century.
www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Reference/Library_887.html   (1085 words)

  
 Architecture of Woodlawn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The wings were completed in 1802 and shortly thereafter the Lewis family moved into the north wing.
When completed, the house incorporated architectural elements reminiscent of Kenmore, Lawrence Lewis' childhood home, and was furnished primarily with pieces from Mount Vernon.
The house was constructed by slaves using bricks formed and fired on the plantation in a kiln located on the grounds.
www.woodlawn1805.org /architecture.htm   (268 words)

  
 RCA 1802
From the outset the 1802 has also been available fabricated in Silicon on Sapphire semiconductor process technology, which gives it a degree of resistance to radiation and electrostatic discharge (ESD).
The 1802 was used in the Voyager, Viking, and Galileo spacecraft, and has been widely used in Earth-orbiting satellites.
Although the faster version of 1802 could operate at 5 MHz (at 5 V, faster at 10 V), it was usually operated at 3.58 MHz/2 to suit the requirements of the 1861 chip which gave a speed of a little over 100,000 instructions per second.
www.mrsci.com /Microprocessors/RCA_1802.php   (950 words)

  
 RCA COSMAC 1802
The COSMAC 1802 was RCA's first single chip microprocessor.
The 1801 microprocessor and the COSMAC architecture were the first based on CMOS chip technology.
The 1802 was likely the first microprocessor used as a nuclear weapons controller.
www.antiquetech.com /chips/RCA1802.htm   (533 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - News - North Carolina AIA Awards 2004 - 2004.0929
The projects reflect the special character of a state that boasts a world-class scientific environment in Research Triangle Park within a historic setting that continues to revere its pre-Civil War culture.
One of the four projects receiving an honor award is the restoration by Harris Architects of Fort Hill (1802), in Clemson, South Carolina.
One of the four projects receiving an AIANC honor award is Fort Hill (1802), the home of John C. Calhoun, in Clemson, South Carolina, restored by Harris Architects.
www.architectureweek.com /2004/0929/news_1-1.html   (349 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.
Robert Smith was a prominent member of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, the group which so profoundly influenced the architecture of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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)

  
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Alvestrand, et al Informational [Page 1] RFC 1802 Introducing Project Long Bud June 1995 In the MHS infrastructure, as compared to other protocols, a name by itself does not contain enough information to allow the Message Transfer Agents (MTAs) to route a message to the User Agent (UA) servicing this name.
Alvestrand, et al Informational [Page 4] RFC 1802 Introducing Project Long Bud June 1995 In the second phase of Project Long Bud, a greater number of MTAs should be added to the experiment.
Alvestrand, et al Informational [Page 5] RFC 1802 Introducing Project Long Bud June 1995 downloading of routing information from the Directory: in order to provide a migration path for organizations not using directory-capable MTAs, a tool is needed which will read X.400 routing information from the X.500 Directory and generate static routing information from it.
www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1802.txt   (2745 words)

  
 19th-Century Adrian Architecture - 19th Century Chronology of Adrian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
1802: Addison Joseph Comstock, son of Darius Comstock, is born in Palmyra, Niagara County, New York.
As evidence of the enormous growth that takes place at this time, twenty six additional properties are platted and added to the city of Adrian over the next ten years.
1854: The need for brick architecture downtown becomes obvious when a fire nearly destroys half the Adrian's downtown, including many wooden structures on the west side of Main Street south of Maumee Street.
www.adrianarchitecture.com /chronology-adrian.html   (5266 words)

  
 The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council Historic Buildings
Traverse 300 years of architecture that reflects the prosperity, poverty and perseverance against the natural elements.
This is a great area to see Georgian, Greek Revival, Federal, Victorian, and the Eastern Shore's own: big house, little house, collonade, kitchen, that is sometimes affectionately known as a "telescope house." One home open to the public is the Teackle Mansion located in Princess Anne.
It is an outstanding example of neoclassic architecture, build between 1802-1805 with later additions in 1818-1819.
skipjack.net /le_shore/heritage/pages/historic_buildings.html   (426 words)

  
 Charlestown Main Street Historic District
By 1778 he was in Charlestown, the earliest structures by his hand reportedly date to 1800.(3) An exact source for Hassam¹s architectural training is not known though he was clearly heavily influenced by the architectural guides of Asher Benjamin and his contemporaries.
This period is characterized by an increasing range of architectural styles as builders and architects sought to break from accepted classical forms.
While the architectural integrity of some buildings has been compromised by the addition of incompatible design features such as aluminum doors and windows, synthetic sidings, or simple lack of maintenance, these alterations have not been so extensive as to threaten the integrity of the district as a whole.
www.crjc.org /heritage/N06-17.htm   (19539 words)

  
 Architecture Indexes
Use this list of periodical indexes to locate articles on architecture, architectural history, construction, building technology, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban design and planning.
Architectural Index is an annual subject index to 10 U.S. professional architecture, building, and landscape architecture magazines.
Covers 300+ journals from 45 countries on architecture and allied arts, construction, design, landscape, and to a limited extent, planning and urban history.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/indexes.html   (2583 words)

  
 Précis of the Lectures on Architecture with Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture (Getty Bookstore)
The 1795 appointment of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760-1834) as professor of architecture at the newly created École Polytechnique proved to be monumental for the course of modern architectural theory.
Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism.
Antoine Picon is professor of the history of architecture and engineering at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, and author of French Architects and Engineers in the Age of the Enlightenment.
www.getty.edu /bookstore/titles/precis.html   (274 words)

  
 History of Architecture
Architectural theory, from the Renaissance to the present: 89 essays on 117 treatises.
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.
Although strictly architecture journals are excluded, articles on architecture in general art and design journals are included.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/ArchHist.html   (5432 words)

  
 London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The buildings of London are a collection of different styles accumulated mostly over the time since the Great Fire in 1666.
Although the City is characterised by 18th and 19th century architecture, there are a number of examples of more modern construction, such as the Lloyd's building.
The rebuilding during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was characterised by a wide range of architectural styles and has resulted in a lack of architectural unity that has become part of London's character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London   (5812 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- City Hall
In 1802, a competition was held for the new City Hall and twenty-six proposals were submitted.
The architectural style of City Hall is a combination of two famous historical movements.
The exterior facade reflects that of the French Renaissance, and the interior that of the American-Georgian style.
www.nyc-architecture.com /SCC/SCC026.htm   (1421 words)

  
 19th-Century Adrian Architecture - Italianate and Italian Villa Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Italian Villa style, which first appeared in England in 1802, was popularized in the United States by a series of publications starting in 1842 with Andrew Jackson Downing’s Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America.
Today, most historians differentiate between two main styles of architecture inspired by Downing’s books: the Italian Villa and the Italianate.
The Italian Villa has two main distinguishing features: a prominent tower, which was often called a campanile (a term used in Italian to describe a church bell tower), and a picturesquely irregular plan.
www.adrianarchitecture.com /italianate.html   (782 words)

  
 Gothic Revival Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gothic Revival Architecture was an architectural movement, or style, in which forms and details of buildings were derived from the Gothic style of the Middle Ages.
In the last 60 years of the 19th century this architectural style was often called Victorian, after Queen Victoria (1819-1901), during whose reign (1837-1901) it was built.
The movement was given great impetus when the Queen insisted that architects Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) use the Gothic Revival style for English Houses of Parliament, which were designed in 1836 and completed in 1860.
library.marist.edu /archives/MHP/bechestate/gothic.html   (246 words)

  
 Arlington House Architecture and Construction
The North Wing, constructed in 1802, was originally 2 stories with a massive single chimney and had a hip roof.
A dairy was located under the South Wing where former slaves stated that milk was stored in a deep, dry well and butter was churned.
The somewhat austere quality of the architecture is relieved by the deft use of the graceful arches throughout the house.
www.nps.gov /arho/tour/history/architecture.html   (1353 words)

  
 Myanmar Architecture: Sandamuni Pagoda, Mandalay
The unpopular regime collapsed in the British annexation of Mandalay and Upper Burma in 1885.
The Paya is also famous for the Iron Buddha Sandamani cast by King Bodawpay (1782-1819) of the Konbaung dynasty in 1802, and which King Mindon and brought from Amarapura to his new pagoda and shrine in 1874.
This was the seventh and last of the many journeys of the Iron Buddha, frequently moved because of wars and the shift of capitals in the nineteenth century.
www.orientalarchitecture.com /mandalay/SANDAMUNI.htm   (609 words)

  
 Art in Cork (1800-1825)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On the contrary, the sophistication of architecture by Morrison and Hargrave in Cork at this time indicates a fairly wide audience for the visual arts, albeit an audience that was restricted to the middle and upper classes.
From shop-signs to architecture: In Cork, an admirer of Admiral Nelson built Trafalgar House around 1806, to celebrate the British victory at the battle of the same name, which had taken place the previous year.
In architecture, in 1818, George Richard Pain and his brother James won a public competition for the design of a new prison, or "House of Correction" for Cork.
www.crawfordartgallery.com /1800-1825.html   (18428 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 1802 - Calendar Encyclopedia
Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1802.htm   (494 words)

  
 MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Architecture and Morality: The Gothic Revival and Its Discontents
Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Dean and Woodward, 1845-1861.
Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~wrankin/architecture.htm   (685 words)

  
 Essential World Architecture Images- architecture in the Da Vinci Code- Westminster Abbey
Essential World Architecture Images- architecture in the Da Vinci Code- Westminster Abbey
Essential Architecture- Architecture in the Da Vinci Code
Henry Yevele, two western towers were built between 1722 and 1745 by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
www.essential-architecture.com /DAVINCI/DV03.htm   (1555 words)

  
 RCA 1802 (CDP1802) microprocessor family
It was possible to jump to any memory location by placing a new address into any free register, and set this register as a program counter.
This trick was usually used when there was a need to call a subroutine as the microprocessor didn't have a dedicated "call subroutine" instruction.
Another interesting feature was that the RCA 1802 didn't have stack instructions.
www.cpu-world.com /CPUs/1802/index.html   (217 words)

  
 CDW Product Overview: Cisco 1802 ADSL/ISDN Router with IOS Security
Cisco Systems is redefining best-in-class enterprise and small- to midsize-business routing with a new line of integrated services routers that are optimized for the secure delivery of data services.
Founded on years of leadership and innovation, the Cisco 1800 Series integrated services routers intelligently embed data, security, and wireless technology into a single, resilient system for fast, secure, scalable delivery of mission-critical business applications.
The best-in-class Cisco 1800 Series architecture has been specifically designed to meet requirements of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise branch offices, and service provider-managed services applications for delivery of concurrent services at wire-speed performance.
www.cdw.com /shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=952374   (225 words)

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