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	French architecture - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Classical architecture was introduced into the south of France during the Roman conquest in the 1st cent.
		Innovations manifested in Carolingian buildings gave rise to the architecture of the Romanesque period, when many fine works were executed in France, and to the great cathedrals of the Gothic style, of which France was the principal center (see Romanesque architecture and art, Gothic architecture and art).
		The revival of classical art and architecture during the Renaissance spread from Italy to France in the 15th and 16th cent., giving rise to the majority of the famous French châteaux, primarily in the Loire valley.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-french-ar.html (940 words)

	Architecture
		The terms which we often use to describe "colonial architecture" such as: "Salt Box", "Cape Cod", and "2 story Colonial" and which we see in real estate ads are not house styles but, refer to the shape of the body of the building.
		In fact, the range of our architecture is broad, of many styles and periods, eclectic, and as several owners lived in the same house, maintained and "updated" it, many changes over the years on a given house have enhanced the appearance of the house and maintained the integrity of the original style or did not.
		Beaverbrook, and with Brookdale Farms and its state preservation for agriculture keeping the center of town with open cultivated land, but new houses are often not built with thought to their fit with neighbors in a town that is dedicated to preserving “rural character”.
	www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/houses.html (8747 words)

	ArtLex on architecture
		Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
		"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
		Architecture Slide Library at U of California, Berkeley.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html (2258 words)

	About The Nineteenth Century - Art and Architecture Title List
		Architectural illustrations and description of the Cathedral Church at Durham.
		Architecture in Italy from the sixth to the eleventh century.
		Architecture of machinery: an essay on propriety of form.
	c19.chadwyck.com /html/noframes/moreinfo/visart_t.htm (4820 words)

	Architecture, Volume of three titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Joseph Gandy had little commercial success, but his drawings for cottages and farmhouses have long been recognized as among the most original of the period; the asymmetrical use of simple geometric forms results in a peculiarly modern look, and has evoked the occasional comparison to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
		Architectural sketches for cottages, rural dwellings, and villas, in the Grecian, Gothic, and fancy styles, with plans; suitable to persons of genteel life and moderate fortune.
		This very attractive volume, in fine condition, bears no ownership marks, but is in fact from the library of James Watt, Junior, the eldest son of the celebrated engineer (and is recorded as such in 19th-century estate inventories).
	www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B4461.html (440 words)

	Neoclassical architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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)

	Architectural Styles in Paarl
		The development of Paarl from its earliest times to today is reflected in the variety of architectural styles contained in its Main Street.
		After 1806 the architecture was influenced by the British style of building which favoured larger windows, double storey buildings and slate roofs.
		Reference to the house dates back to 1710 and the floor plan has not been altered since 1756, although the facade was later altered to attain a Victorian look.
	www.places.co.za /html/archstyles.html (614 words)

	Architecture--James River Plantations: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The majority of colonial era building in the region, and throughout the Southern colonies, was impermanent in nature, its longevity varying by degree and corresponding directly with cycles of building and rebuilding by a variety of earthfast (wood directly in the earth) construction methods.
		In marked contrast, the 17th and 18th centuries gave rise to the construction of a significant concentration of substantial plantations along the James River, reflecting the sophisticated social, cultural and economic context in which they were built.
		The house was demolished in 1806, but a watercolor drawing made by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1797 illustrates its Jacobean character.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/jamesriver/architecture.htm (2589 words)

	Prints Old & Rare - Architecture page
		Four copper-engraved images on one page from a 1798 architecture text, showing close-up views of decorative door and window frames.
		The stamp of a library which previously owned the print is barely visible in the center of the image.
		Title of the scene is "Senate House in King’s Parade." Shows an exterior view of the building, which was built in Cambride in 1730.
	www.printsoldandrare.com /architecture (394 words)

	Roman Architecture
		Architecture was crucial to the success of Rome.
		The dome with its central oculus and original bronze rosettes in the coffers was understood as the vault of heaven.
		Hadrian's Pantheon is one of the grand architectural creations of all time: original, utterly bold, many-layered in associations and meaning, the container of a kind of immanent universality.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/ARTH200/politics/roman_architecture.html (2188 words)

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		LSB Implementation Conformance 486 487 A conforming implementation is necessarily architecture 488 specific, and must provide the interfaces specified by both 489 the generic LSB Core specification (ISO/IEC 23360 Part 1) and 490 the relevant architecture specific part of ISO/IEC 23360.
		LSB Application Conformance 549 550 A conforming application is necessarily architecture specific, 551 and must conform to both the generic LSB Core specification 552 (ISO/IEC 23360 Part 1)and the relevant architecture specific 553 part of ISO/IEC 23360.
		PREAMBLE 3218 3219 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or 3220 other written document "free" in the sense of freedom: to 3221 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute 3222 it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or 3223 noncommercially.
	www.freestandards.org /spec/book/LSB-S390/LSB-S390_lines.txt (8953 words)

	Assignment 7 - Architecture
		The design of the monument was inspired by the ancient Arch of Constantine in Rome, but, at 50 m (164 ft) high and 45 m (148 ft) wide, it is twice as high and twice as wide as the original.
		In the city is the famous Abbey Church of Saint-Denis (1137-1144), an architectural landmark considered to be the first major structure Moving away from the low Romanesque style, it was the first large building to use the new vertical style known as Gothic.
		The cathedral church of Notre Dame in the city of Chartres is one of the foremost examples of High Gothic architecture.
	www.personal.psu.edu /nrp140/arch.htm (1196 words)

	New York Architecture Images-
		It is a good example of Dutch architecture adapted to modern uses: the roof is of heavy dark timber beams, the supporting arches rest on pillars of purple Knoxville marble.
		The pulpit is a handsome piece of carved oak, the panels showing the coat-of-arms of the Reformed church, and the seal of the Collegiate Church.
		The Romanesque style had become overused and the architectural firm of McKim Mead and White, attempting both to attract old Knickerbocker families and give the community a sense of history, initiated a revival of Dutch Colonial on the Upper West Side.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UWS/UWS028.htm (6648 words)

	Newsletter No 8
		The BBC is working on a film on Soane for their 'Imagine' series, probably to be shown in November; Pell Wall has been sold to new owners who intend to complete the restoration of the house and Piercefield, which has been in a state of calamitous ruin for many years, is for sale.
		While the architectural books show evidence of con-siderable use by students and readers, the condition of many of the general books suggest that they have hardly been read at all and were even left unopened by Soane himself.
		Ann Saunders has published widely on art and architecture and is the author of St Paul's: the story of the Cathedral, written specially to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002.
	www.soane.org /newsletter8.htm (4221 words)

	Providence Architecture
		He was born in Warwick, Rhode Island 1777, but in 1794 left and moved to Providence during a major period of growth in the city.
		Between 1806 and 1830 Greene designed more than fifty public, commercial, religious, and residential buildings in the city.
		As a mentor to James Bucklin, Greene's architectural influence went on to impact Providence well into the 19th century.
	www.brown.edu /Courses/HA0191/greenejohnholden.html (95 words)

	Architecture
		The development of new kinds of architecture was advanced by the use of iron (wrought and cast iron) and later steel.
		Also important in the appearance of new architecture was the increased used of glazing in 19th century buildings; metal can hold larger panels of glass than wood could.
		Metal came to be used for permanent architectural purposes, not just utilitarian structures.
	www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/art/19c/arch/arch.html (973 words)

	Sketches in Architecture, : Dearn, (Thomas Downes Wilmot).
		Not to be confused with Dearn's Sketches in Architecture...
		On the title-page Dearn styles himself as "Architect to His Royal Highness The Duke of Clarence", but admits in the Preface that he was "about to embark" on the profession of architecture.
		The major designs include a naval monument at Greenwich, a national mausoleum, a pyramidal cemetery chapel, a cenotaph and a billiards room, along with five picturesque lodges and cottages, all surrounded by the appropriate "Natural" scenery.
	www.maggs.com /title/EA5049.asp (137 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)

	New York Architecture Images-SHRINE OF ST. ELIZABETH ANN BAYLEY SETON
		The eastern portion (1793) which follows the line of the street was executed by an unknown architect, while the curved western portion (1806) has been attributed to the sophisticated architect, John McComb Jr.
		The Watson residence is the sole survivor of the elegant Federal style row houses that lined State Street and lower Broadway in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
		The original part of the Watson house is the eastern half; the porticoed western half, built in 1806, is ascribed to James McComb, Jr., the first native-born architect, is a brilliant solution to the problem of fitting a rowhouse to an irregular site and letting light into a deep floor plan.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /LM/LM019-SHRINEOFST.ELIZABETHANNBAYLEYSETON.htm (1970 words)

	Horatio Colony Museum - May 2006 events
		An exhibit using the house as a starting place to explore an overview of what Keene, the state of New Hampshire and the country was like when the house was built.
		Other segments will include daily life around 1806, fashion, architecture, as well as information on the families –Blake/ Joslin/ Colony - who were stewards of the house.
		An architectural walking tour of houses that could be found on Main Street in 1806.
	www.horatiocolonymuseum.org /Events_2006_May.htm (288 words)

	HINCK & WALL - Garden History, Catalogue 56: Part One
		Carrasco was a guiding figure in the development of garden design and urban planning in Argentina in the early decades of the twentieth century, and is recognized as the leading early theorist of the Argentine school of landscape architecture.
		Most of the plates are enhanced with scenery, which he hoped would "afford some useful hints for Planting." Dearn was an architect who lived and practiced in Kent and produced a descriptive account of the weald of Kent as well as other works on public buildings and building methods.
		In his 1806 SKETCHES IN ARCHITECTURE he identified himself as architect to the Duke of Clarence.
	www.gardenhistory.com /cat56pt1.html (6380 words)

	Hinck & Wall Catalogue 56 GARDEN HISTORY - Printer Format
		The catalogue of an exhibition held in Paris devoted to prints and drawings of French architecture and gardens of the 17th and 18th century.
		An outstanding illustrated study of northern African garden design and architecture, detailing the elements of decoration, the architecture of the modest house and the palace, pavilions and kiosks, the particularities of houses at Rabat and Marrakech, etc. With fine heliogravure plates from photographs by Lucien Vogel and line illustrations from drawings by Albert Laprade.
		As the son of a Twickenham gardener who began his own career as a gardener, landscape gardener and surveyor, it is not surprising that several of his earliest publications were devoted to gardens, horticulture and the related arts of geometry and surveying.
	www.gardenhistory.com /Print56.html (16026 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)

	makeArchitecture
		We were the first architecture blog site in Chicago in the summer of 2002; watch for something new and exciting in early 2006.
		We remember that it is Architecture we're after because for years Sustainability has been the Birkenstocks of the design world.
		I'll try to address some of these issues and invite other architects and creative professionals to add their two cents....
	www.makearchitecture.com (486 words)

	Sikh History:
		ANGLO-SIKH TREATY (1806) followed Jasvant Rao Holkar's (a Maratha Chief) crossing over into the Punjab in 1805 after he was defeated at Fatehgarh and Dig in December 1804 by the British.
		Accompanied by his Ruhila ally, Amir Khan, and a Maratha force estimated at 15,000, Holkar arrived at Patiala, but on hearing the news that the British general, Lake, was in hot pursuit, both the refugees fled northwards, entered the Jalandhar Doab, and ultimately reached Amritsar.
		The Anglo-Sikh treaty of 1806 brought the Sikh chief into direct contact with the British government.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/astreaty1806.htm (248 words)

	Architecture of Virginia and Maryland - Great Buildings Online
		Adam Thoroughgood House, by Vernacular, at Norfolk, Virginia, 1636 to 1640.
		Baltimore Cathedral, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, at Baltimore, Maryland, 1806 or 1814 to 1818.
		Mount Vernon, by Lawrence and George Washington, at Mount Vernon, Virginia, 1743, remodeled 1754 to circa 1780.
	www.architecturevirginia.com (210 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)

	ArchitectureWeek - Tools - 2001.0221
		When construction on the Mission San Juan Capistrano was completed in 1806, it was the largest modern structure west of the Mississippi River.
		Because the CAD program was easy to use and enhanced the ability to envision the final project, he also realized that 3D modeling can be an important presentation tool.
		Architects and educators have long disagreed about which skills should be taught in architecture schools and which, if any, are best taught later, during apprenticeships.
	www.architectureweek.com /2001/0221/tools.html (182 words)

	1806 - Enpsychlopedia
		Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
		1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
		March 23 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their journey home.
	enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/1806 (678 words)

	Nonsuch Mansion ~ About
		The Nonsuch Mansion is found within the boundaries of Nonsuch Park – in mediaeval times a part of the formerly three thousand acre manor of Cuddington.
		The Elegant mansion, built in Elizabethan style, with it’s octagonal towers and embattled parapets was built by Samuel Gamul Farmer between 1802 and 1806.
		The architecture bears significant to the long destroyed near by Royal Palace known as “Nonnesuche” begun by King Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose intention was to create an edifice of so wondrous a design and proportion that there would be no other such in all the kingdom.
	www.nonsuch-mansion.co.uk /about.htm (263 words)

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