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  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)

  
 Edelweiss Media: Architecture
Architecture can be defined in at least four ways, all valid, but none truly satisfactory.
Architecture embraces functional, technological, and aesthetic requirements: it may have utilitarian qualities, structural stability and sound construction, and attractive appearance.
Architecture is most readily grasped by studying its development in successive historical periods, noting the general characteristic of each, the development of building techniques from one era to the next as well as from one culture to the next, and noting the evolution of each successive architectural style.
www.geocities.com /edelweissmedia/em_architecture.htm   (3108 words)

  
 Greek Architecture
Callicrates and Ictinus' attitude toward religious architecture ceased to be that of the superstitious priest-architect held subject to unvaryingly precise (and often hypnotically elaborate) repetition of prescribed forms and became instead that of the artist rationalist--adjusting, refining, and simplifying forms to make them quietly effective and satisfying to the eye.
Greek architecture suddenly became that of this rich, powerful Hellenic empire and was forced to break out of the fixed, small-scale vocabulary of forms that had been satisfactory for the Periclean temple.
This was no longer an architecture of detail and refinement but one of massive (if simple) construction and political show.
www.crystalinks.com /greekarchitecture.html   (2894 words)

  
 1837 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
May 10 - Panic of 1837 (Global economic crisis): New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
In the United States, financial crisis and economic depression begun by the Panic of 1837.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1837   (751 words)

  
 Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Becher (4-8) briefly discusses the scientific nature of Whewell's architectural writings and their relationship to his views on other subjects; Schaffer (215-17) sketches the religious and political interests that these architectural writings were meant to serve.
Since the three editions of Whewell's major architectural work, Architectural Notes on German Churches, appeared in 1830, 1835, and 1842, a celebration of Whewell's place in the science and culture of the 1830s, a crucial decade for the Gothic Revival, presents an opportune moment for pursuing this aspect of his thought in greater detail.
For Ruskin, the "corruption" of Gothic architecture was connected to "the peculiar degradation of the Romanist superstition, and of public morality in consequence" (9:44).
www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~jonsmith/gothic.html   (6658 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The eclectic architecture and urban design of Historicism, which took from the styles of different ages, together with secession influences were crucial in determining the style that united Pest and Buda in 1873.
Buildings of public utility were constructed as spectacular architectural showpieces in the 1890s and at the turn of the century.
Romanticism, evoking Medieval and Oriental architecture, began in Hungary in the middle of the century.
www.hungary.com /servlet/page?_pageid=7034,6177&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30   (2835 words)

  
 Study Architecture
Minimum qualitative standards in the schools of architecture are ensured both by the appointment of independent external examiners in each school and by visits of the RIBA Visiting Board in which ARCUK participates.
The admissions staff of the schools of architecture are able to advise students on the equatability of their school examinations.
The Royal Institute has been approached by a large number of overseas schools of architecture in recent years, who are keen to avail themselves of RIBA experience and expertise and consequently the international network is set to expand considerably in the 21st century.
www.internationaleducationmedia.com /unitedkingdom/courses/architecture.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Architecture timeline
This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages.
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
\n* 1839 - \n* 1838 -\n* 1837 -\n* 1836 -\n* 1835 - \n* 1834 - \n* 1833 -\n* 1832 -\n* 1831 -\n* 1830 -
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/a/ar/architecture_timeline.html   (972 words)

  
 Architectural Style : Victorian
Perhaps national pride encouraged an admiration for the architecture of previous periods of national confidence: Elizabethan, Jacobean and Scottish Baronial.
Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was a brilliant exponent of the approach, producing a series of influential country houses in the 'Old English' style and then developing the 'Queen Anne' style for town and country.
The Victorian Society is the national society responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Style/Victorian.htm   (372 words)

  
 Architecture
N.Y. The Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the exhibition "Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde." June to Sept. 1990 or.cl. d/w.
Many masterpieces of Islamic art, such as the Alhambra and the Taj Mahal, were produced during the period between the early 13th century and the advent of European colonial rule in the 19th.
Recording the architectural casualties suffered during the whole period of air bombardment 1940-45 profusely illus.
www.bspgallery.com.au /archit.htm   (2982 words)

  
 The architecture of Joseph Michael Gandy (1771--1843) and Sir John Soane (1753--1837): An exploration into the Masonic ...
Both architects developed architectural theories regarding the universal origins of architecture in an attempt to establish order as well as transcend the emerging historicism of the early nineteenth century.
There are strong parallels between Soane's use of architectural narrative and his discussion of architectural ‘model’ in relation to Gandy's understanding of ‘trans-historical’ architecture.
I argue that this is the architectural project through which Soane and Gandy's common interest in universal symbolism was made manifest, as evidenced by the design and presentation drawings held at the Soane Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI3087403   (414 words)

  
 death_architecture_eng
The new social and political conditions that are being established, as well as the new trends in architecture, which are imported from Europe, had a direct effect on funerary architecture.
In fact the burial architecture of the A cemetery of Athens since its establishment in 1837, has offered us a rich assortment of forms, of different architecture styles as well as Modern Greek sculpture.
The sarcophagus, the chapel like tombs, the chapel tombs, the lecythi monuments, the lynx-eyed columns, the mortary busts, the lying or naked womanly figures, the arns and the common sacred stones are talon from the themes which have been brought back over and over again with different variations.
2gym-patras.ach.sch.gr /death_architecture_eng.htm   (1770 words)

  
 Preoccupations: Architecture
The site largely focuses on the asylums themselves from their origins as providers of sanctuary and care through to their demise in the dying days of the 20th century'), and a Middlesex University index of English and Welsh lunatic asylums and mental hospitals (and a lot more information besides, including a Mental Health History Timeline).
I think of John Clare (1793–1864), committed in 1837 to a private asylum and then, in 1842, to the Northampton County Asylum for the remainder of his life.
The incorporation of chance operations was a way of removing the artist's will from the creative act, much as his earlier, more severely geometric collages had substituted a paper cutter for scissors, so as to divorce his work from "the life of the hand".
www.preoccupations.org /architecture   (1466 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Architecture
This study of medieval architecture, which treats the subject thematically, looks at construction methods, patronage, and function, as well as the symbolic meanings represented in the architecture.
Jean Claude Pondevie's architecture expresses the underlying motivation of modern design through a profound concern for the natural and historical contexts in which his works are grounded.
Profusely illustrated book chronicles the evolution of the architecture of the railroad station in both Europe and America from the 1830s to the 1950s.
www.powells.com /usedbooks/Architecture.22.html   (753 words)

  
 Architecture Centre Network
DCMS has responsibility for architectural design, and aims to raise awareness about the importance of architecture in defining our environment, and to encourage high standards of design quality in building projects.
The professional body for all chartered architects in Scotland and the foremost architectural professional institute in the country dealing with architecture and the built environment.
An architecture school and trust founded by HRH the Prince of Wales to promotes a return of human values to architecture.
www.architecturecentre.net /links.asp   (2801 words)

  
 Adirondack History of Architecture
The architecture represents a wide range of styles from the stately, asymmetrical Italianate, the straight-lined, angular Stick, to the voluptuous, ornate Queen Anne.
The romance, elegance and whimsy of Victorian architecture reflected the worldly exuberance of a prospering society.
The Italianate style borrowed from the Tuscan villas an architecture that included: the use of ornate brackets to hold the wide overhanging eaves, usually painted in a contrasting color; slender windows with decorative crowns or lintels; low roofs that may have a cupola or tower.
www.masterpieces.com /arch2.htm   (2381 words)

  
 Architecture Resource Guide, page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maie Casey with collaborators, Joan Lindsay, DA Casey, architects John and Tom Freeman and Allan R Henderson, became foundation members of the new National Trust of Australia (Victoria) which was established in 1956.
Also includes essays on the architectural history of the various regions of Victoria and an article on architectural style by Colin Caldwell.
Each building is illustrated with the original photograph taken at the time of the award and a modern one taken from the same position by architectural photographer, John Gollings.
slv.vic.gov.au /about/using/guides/by_collection/architecture/arch2.html   (1235 words)

  
 Architecture Reference Collection, Architecture & Fine Arts Library, University of Florida
Architecture of the United States / G.E. Kidder Smith ; in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; introd.
Architecture and ornament : an illustrated dictionary / by Margaret Maliszewski-Pickart.
Architecture in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings / Terence M. Russell ; with the collaboration of Ann-Marie Ashworth.
www.uflib.ufl.edu /afa/subjects/ref-arc.html   (3029 words)

  
 Victorian Architecture
The Victorian style was architecture used during the reign of Queen Victoria in Great Britain (1837-1901).
Victorian architecture originated in Europe as a combination of revivals of older styles (such as Gothic and Italianate).
Some common characteristics of Victorian architecture are bay windows, stairs to the front door, and cone shaped turrets.
library.thinkquest.org /16545/data/victoria.htm   (152 words)

  
 Wooden architecture route   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wooden architecture in the mentioned area is very diverse, which results from various cultural influences.
Due to a significant number of listed constructions (175 wooden constructions of historical value), we have decided to divide the presentation into 3 parts, which will be presented in the 3 consecutive issues of the Information Bulletin.
A classic and at the same time the oldest example of Orthodox architecture of Bojkowie (an ethnical group) in Poland.
www.infolinia.pl /en_bulletin6/wooden.htm   (1518 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 had, of course, been used in small quantities much earlier--as dowells to hold drums of columns together in Greek architecture, for example.
www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/art/19c/arch/arch.html   (973 words)

  
 Architecture Styles
The term "Romanesque" was first applied by critics in the early nineteenth century to describe the architecture of the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries, because certain architectural elements, principally the round arch, resembled those of ancient Roman architecture.
Hunt (portrait) was one of many American architects influenced by a mid-19th-century European revival of late-medieval rustic country architecture, most notably the gingerbread-ornamented chalets of the Alps and the half-timbered cottages of Normandy and Tudor England.
He was exposed to Europe's architecture while studying at the most prestigious school of architecture in the Western world, L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris, the first American to do so.
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 Recommended books: Architecture and art
Architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present: 89 essays on 117 treatises
Payne, Alina A. The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance: architectural invention, ornament and literary culture
The selection does not pretend to be comprehensive, but users should bear in mind that many general works in the various subsections of Section 2, such as the Pelican history of art series, provide substantial information on individual architects, and they should make reference also to Section 1.3 (Biographical dictionaries).
www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Reference/Library_623.html   (2272 words)

  
 American Architecture
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 from the Library of Congress
Characteristics of Virginia Georgian Architecture, by P. Anderson, Jr.
Architectural drawings for the Virginia Military Institute, the first American college planned entirely in the Gothic style
www.vintagedesigns.com /architecture/links.htm   (686 words)

  
 Architecture
Over the years architecture has been a key component in the rise and fall of the economy, mainly the salt works industry.
In return, the architecture of the Cape influenced other architecture in that it added a twist of its own original style.
(Doane 32) “The Cape house is a style of architecture that may be defined as a frame structure one-and-a-half stories high with a pitched roof.” A chimney was a major defining aspect of the Cape house.
www.harwich.edu /depts/history/PB/projects/arch.htm   (4616 words)

  
 1837 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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Euston Arch in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London, designed by (additional info and facts about Philip Hardwick) Philip Hardwick (demolished in the 1960s)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1837_in_architecture.htm   (133 words)

  
 Gothic Revival Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
Beginning in Europe in the early 18th century the movement spread to America where it strongly influenced many architects and their buildings into the 20th century.
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.
library.marist.edu /archives/MHP/bechestate/gothic.html   (246 words)

  
 Kingston Architecture: Chronology
The cornerstone of the present St George's Anglican Cathedral is laid on King St E. at Johnson St. This is the first known architectural commission for Thomas Rogers (1778/82-1853).
His design is altered c1840 when the front of the church is rebuilt and a new bell tower installed by architect William Coverdale (1801-65); this work is in turn altered by an enlargement of the structure in 1891 by Power and Son.
The architectural firm of Power and Son is formed (see also the entry for 1846).
www.mckendry.net /CHRONOLOGY/chronology.htm   (4413 words)

  
 Irish Architecture from Moytura's Irish Bookshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The names of the authors, contributors and illustrators have all been linked to more of their work on each page as well as being listed on our authors' page.
Informative text and gorgeous photos yield a sense of Ireland, its culture, and its people to show how the land's natural beautify and centuries of talented artisans are reflected in Irish Country decor.
Listings of museums, galleries, exhibitions, architecture, film centers, public art, sculpture parks, bookstores, and art festivals provide travel information, location details, and instructive commentaries for each site.
www.moytura.com /irishbooks/architecture1.htm   (919 words)

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