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	Denmark - Culture - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the architectural creations of the age were thus mainly concentrated in private building undertakings in Copenhagen, for instance Niels Juels Palæ near Kongens Nytorv (1696), building work was still going on in other parts of the country.
		Greek Antique architecture was the object of considerable interest at this time, and it left its traces for instance in Harsdorff's colonnade (1794) between two of the Amalienborg palaces.
		Architecturally speaking, Tinggården was built in a varied and informal mould, in which the elements of concrete were hidden behind unpretentious and familiar native materials such as wooden cladding and facing walls.
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-2.asp (5802 words)

	Amon Carter Museum \| New Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Art and architecture ; re Amon Carter Museum - MICROFORM Dabb, A. (Albert N.) Practical plans for district school houses [microform] : for the use and guidance of school boards and officers / by A.N Philadelphia : J.A. Bancroft, c1874.
		Art and architecture ; re Amon Carter Museum - MICROFORM Dwyer, Charles P. economy of church, parsonage and school architecture [microform] : adapted to small societies and rural districts / by C Buffalo : Phinney & Co., 1856.
		Art and architecture ; re Amon Carter Museum - MICROFORM Downing, A. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America [microform]; with a view to the imp New York, C. Saxton; San Francisco, H. Bancroft, 1860.
	www.cartermuseum.org /libarch/newbooks/2004_04.htm (12744 words)

	1811 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
		February 5 - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.He is known as the Prince Regent.
		March 25 - The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1811 (453 words)

	Odin - Architecture in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is why monumental buildings are lacking and folk traditions have dominated architecture, especially in the use of wood, based on centuries of craftsmanship and experience with the material.
		Influenced by Danish empire architecture, this strict, but harmonic classic style set its mark all over the country, especially along the southern coast of Norway, where applications in wood are found in large as well as small buildings.
		Architecturally, the Police Headquarters has been followed up by several similar structures in which a sub-division of the building's main body, as in the example with the open hand, creates open spaces which can be covered in glass.
	odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990451/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (8807 words)

	Architecture in Virginia
		ARCHITECTURE in Virginia started with 'two faire rows' of houses built between 1611 and 1615 at Jamestown and three 'streets' at the city of Henrico, for the first settlers built merely shacks or huts.
		And the style of architecture called Early Republican, distinguished to the common eye by tall columns and pedimented porticos, though it derives through the sixteenth.century Italian Palladio from its original Greco-Roman sources, is principally, as an American expression, the child of Jefferson's ardent fancy.
		In general, the architecture that is Virginia's own, in right of happy adaptation to her countryside and the manners, custom, and genius of her people, is of two types.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/arc.html (5309 words)

	Colonial History & Architecture at the Hammond-Harwood House, Annapolis, Maryland
		The architecture of the English colonies in North America from 1607 to the Revolution is primarily an architecture built by regional artisans and influenced by the locally built environment.
		It is an architecture not designed as a whole from academic sources and not planned and executed by a professional architect.
		Architecture that is the result of an academic tradition and is designed as a coordinated whole, by a professional architect is described as "high-style" or academic.
	www.hammondharwoodhouse.org /History.htm (1087 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1812
		See also: 1811 in architecture, other events of 1812, 1813 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
		See also: 1811 in literature, other events of 1812, 1813 in literature, list of years in literature.
		See also: 1811 in music, other events of 1812, 1813 in music and the list of years in music.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1812 (4890 words)

	Religious Architecture
		That a sophisticated taste in architecture was present early in Charleston was illustrated by the second St. Philip's Church, built in 1710-23.
		Mills' first major contribution to Charleston architecture was the design of the Circular Congregational Church, built in 1804-06, which was the first Pantheon-like church in America.
		The style was derived from earlier medieval church architecture, before the rise of the Gothic, and is distinguished from the latter mainly in the use of round, rather than pointed, arches.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/charleston/architecture.htm (3424 words)

	Timeline \|\| Women in Architecture
		Julia Morgan is the first woman to be admitted to the l'Ecolde des Beaux Arts architecture program after their initial rejection and then her victories in various competitions.
		The Archive is consisted of professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, urban planners, and records of women's architectural organizations from around the world.
		Of the 1,038 tenured architecture school faculty members, 16% are female and 8% are ethnic minorities.
	www2.arch.uiuc.edu /organizations/wia/timeline.html (843 words)

	American architecture books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chapel is illustrated in a fine heliotype photograph and an architectural floor plan drawn to scale; it was designed by John Lyman Faxon, architect, of Boston (a note on his career is given in Withey).
		The final pages give "An architectural description of the New State Emigrant Hospital." The building is illustrated in perspective in the frontispiece and in a double-page plan at the rear.
		The report notes a number of individual commercial buildings and dwellings with wooden mansards as opposed to iron or stone as in most French examples and advocates the backing of all such roof with iron or heavy metal as a means of protection against fire.
	www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture5.htm (4711 words)

	Architecture Glossary
		Their architectural designs used the language of classical Greece and Rome as interpreted by Palladio, but with a twist.
		Asher Benjamin was born in Hartford, CT in 1773.
		Influenced by the monumental architecture of ancient Greece (9th through 4th century B.C.E.) and Rome (1st century B.C.E. through 5th century C.E.), and the buildings from the Renaissance (early 15th century to early 17th century), and Baroque (17th century to mid-18th century) periods in Europe.
	www.memorialhall.mass.edu /activities/architecture/glossary.html (3060 words)

	Nature, Technology, Architecture
		In some cases, the technological also came to be seen as a threat to the natural; as the mills of the industrial revolution dirtied the air and water, many questioned the wisdom of embracing this new force.
		As the architectural historian Roger Kennedy explains, " The American Greek Revival arose as many American sensed the nation to be adrift after its heroic revolutionary accomplishments, feared its centrifugal disorder, but at the same time celebrated triumphs of their own" (3-4).
		In 1811 he assumed control of the journal Port Folio which, in a strongly nationalistic vein, offered a variety of essays on arts, architecture, and financial policy.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/WW/nature.html (3798 words)

	The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
		They are not the brat of a whimsical conception never before brought to light, but copied from the most precious, the most perfect model, of ancient architecture remaining on earth; one which has received the approbation of near 2000 years, and which is sufficiently remarkable to have been visited by all travellers.
		The capitol in the city of Richmond, in Virginia, is the model of the Temples of Erectheus at Athens, of Balbec, and of the Maison quarrée of Nismes.
		Besides constant commendations of your taste in architecture, and science in execution, I declared on many and all occasions that I considered you as the only person in the United States who could have executed the Representative Chamber, or who could execute the middle buildings on any of the plans proposed.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/foleyx-browse?id=Capitol (2339 words)

	Architecture-Lounsbury
		The purpose of this article is to present a systematic study of the development of vernacular domestic architecture in three counties in northeastern North Carolina.
		The Virginia house, a one-story dwelling with gable-end chimneys and either a one-room or a two-room, hall-and-parlor plan was the first distinctively native style of domestic architecture to emerge in the English colonies.
		Perhaps the greatest factor in the decline of vernacular architecture was the displacement in popular esteem of the traditional types of dwellings by ones taken from patterns in builders’ handbooks.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/nchr/Subjects/lounsbury.htm (9592 words)

	Histfinal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The architectural heritage of Tompkins County / Richard Corth, photographer ; Lynn Cunningham Truame and Carol Kammen, historians ; Fred Muratori, poet.
		Architecture worth saving in Rensselaer County, New York / by Bernd Foerster ; sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts.
		Architecture in Fredonia, 1811-1972 : an exhibition / sponsored by the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University College, Fredonia, New York, and the Lakeshore Association for the Arts, October 14th-November 19th, 1972 ; sources, context, development by Daniel D. Reiff.
	web.alfredstate.edu /library/Histfinal.html (6187 words)

	Beliefs
		Some of the distinctive architectural style of the region was created by the many skilled stonemasons who settled in the area on land granted to them after the completion of the Canal.
		After 1811, buildings were taxed based on the number of storeys and the type of material used in construction.
		In much of the "old city" it is easy to visualise horse drawn carriages clattering down the street, with a host of pedestrians, the women in long dresses, the men dressed neatly in long jackets, all sporting hats.
	www.uuottawa.com /river_history.htm (6520 words)

	Sources Cited in Fast sailing ships 87062528
		Bennett, J, 'Observations on the Effects Produced by Iron Masts...', Papers on Naval Architecture (edited by William Morgan and Augustin Creuze), vol I, London 1826, pp 100-9.
		Fincham, John, 'Dimensions and Calculated Elements of some of the Vessels of the Royal Yacht Club', Papers on Naval Architecture (edited by William Morgan and Augustin Creuze), vol 1, London 1826, pp 208-17.
		Peake, James, Rudiments of Naval Architecture; or, an Exposition of the Practical Principles of the Science, London 1851.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/87062528.refs.html (4092 words)

	Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) and Sydney Smirke (1798-1877)
		Although his domestic architecture was Gothic Revival, he is best known for his Neo-Classical public buildings, such as the British Museum (1823-1847), and the Covent Garden Theatre, both in London.
		He was knighted in 1832, and received the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture in 1853.
		He also received the RIBA Gold Medal (in 1860) and was professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy from 1861-5.
	www.visitcumbria.com /robsmirk.htm (294 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The purpose of Architecture in Fredonia was both to help people to see architecture, either contemporary or historic, in its broadest artistic and historic context, but also to aid in the then “new” movement of historic preservation.
		The exhibit Architecture in Fredonia, 1811-1972, and its illustrated 124 page catalog, emphasized both the character of local houses in the national context—that they were artistically significant as expressions of notable national movements.
		In 1986, due to the regional and even state-wide appeal of Architecture in Fredonia, 1811-1972 (1972), in the preceding decade, he was presented with the Preservation League of New York State’s Architectural Heritage Honor Award (category of Scholarship) at their annual conference held at Albany, NY.
	www.fredonia.edu /department/art/index_pages/faculty_pages/dan_descrip.html (3134 words)

	Beaujolais wines - Beaujolais Villages and Beaujolais-Villages rose - Domaine Croix Charnay - Jerome Lacondemine
		The cross, masthead of the Domaine, was erected in 1895, and is situated on the old route that connected Beaujeu and Juliénas.
		The architecture of the building on the property is very representative of the Beaujolais region.
		The Domaine is 2 kilometers from the town of Beaujeu, where you can visit a museum, the Caveau des Beaujolais Villages, and one of the four oenological "poles" of the Beaujolais region.
	www.beaujolais-wines.com /domcharnay (398 words)

	Architecture
		Thomas Hope opened his house in London to the public in 1804 and one room was devoted to Egyptian decoration, furnishings and antiquities and these designs appeared in his book 'Household furniture and interior decoration' published in 1807.
		Its massy members and barbarous ornaments are a reproach to the taste of its admirers; and the travels of Denon have produced more evil than the elegance of the engravings and splendour of his publication can be allowed to have compensated ' (Vivant Denon's account of the Napoleonic campaign was published in English in 1803).
		The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly was built in 1811 and was the first complete building in Egyptian style.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /gavin.egypt/architec.htm (1040 words)

	Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) was born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire.
		He started in architecture by designing gaols and workhouses, but later studied French Gothic Cathedrals and Churches, being much influenced by the ideas of Augustus Welby Pugin.
		He represented the quintessence of High Victorian Gothic architecture, and was responsible for an immense amount of such work.
	www.visitcumbria.com /ggscott.htm (252 words)

	History and Architecture
		Marylebone Park, or The Regent's Park as we know it today, again started life as part of the Monarch's hunting grounds.
		In 1811, the Prince Regent asked 3 architects to submit plans for redeveloping the area.
		Nash's plan was bold and grandiose, and caught the imagination of the Prince.
	www.royalparks.gov.uk /special_interest/history.cfm (429 words)

	1811 in architecture in TutorGig Encyclopedia
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	Digital Bridges
		A treatise on bridge architecture; in which the
		New York, Printed for the author, by A. Niven, 1811.
		Pope, Thomas, A treatise on bridge architecture., 1811, detail.
	bridges.lib.lehigh.edu /books/book1601.html (46 words)

	Garden history
		Meason was the 'inventor' of the term Landscape Architecture, which has since come to be used by a world-wide profession, represented by the International Federation of Landscape Architects, by the American Society of Landscape Architects, by the UK Landscape Institute and numerous other national associations.
		Downing was 'the first American writer on landscape architectural topics' (Norman T Newton in Design on the Land) and an 'incalcuable' influence on American garden design and landscape architecture (Oxford Companion to Gardens).
		Olmsted 'the father of American landscape architecture' entered the profession as a result of the Greensward Plan for Central Park, done in partnership with the English architect Calvert Vaux.
	www.gardenvisit.com /garden_history/garden_history_cd.htm (3951 words)

	Jonathan Grobe Books: Architecture
		Kowsky, Francis R. The Architecture Of Frederick Clarke Withers And The Progress Of The Gothic Revival In America After 1850 Very Good Exlibrary, usual markings.
		Mumford, Lewis Architecture As A Home For Man: Essays For Architectural Record Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Dustjacket tears.
		Robinson, Cervin Architecture Transformed: A History Of The Photography Of Buildings From 1839 To The Present Good in Very Good- dust jacket Exlibrary, usual markings.
	www.grobebooks.com /architecture.html (4697 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Masonry (Freemasonry)
		These freemasons formed a universal craft for themselves, with a system of secret signs and passwords by which a craftsman, who had been admitted on giving evidence of competent skill, could be recognized.
		On the decline of Gothic architecture this craft coalesced with the mason guilds.
		Apart, then, from "mere childish allusions to the minor secrets", the general tendency of this "History" is to exhibit the "unsectarianism" of Masonry.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09771a.htm (14816 words)

	3D Spatial Models of Great Buildings - Great Buildings Online
		Explore great architecture live in three dimensions, all for free.
		Hundreds of free 3D walkthough architectural computer models are available right here at the Great Buildings Online web site, plus links to the free DesignWorkshop® Lite architectural 3D walkthrough software used to view them, for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000 and Power Macintosh.
		Built with DesignWorkshop®, these live 3D walkthrough models are all free for your own personal architectural enjoyment, experience, and understanding.
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