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	Mathematics and Architecture
		Architecture was modelled on the teachings of Vitruvius and on the classical architecture which was still plentiful, particularly in Greece and Italy.
		The object of his architectural researches, however, was not to learn to reproduce Roman architecture, but to enrich the architecture of his own time and to perfect his engineering skills.
		Architecture was another of his specialities and he learnt about it, in particular the mathematical principles behind it, from studying Alberti's texts.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Architecture.html (3448 words)

	Asheville Bed & Breakfast, Asheville North Carolina B&B, Asheville NC Inn Lodging near Blue Ridge Parkway, Chimney ...
		You are invited to escape to the 1847 Blake House Inn Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, NC, one of the oldest houses in the city.
		The 1847 Blake House Inn is also available for weddings, receptions, parties, luncheons, meetings, reunions, and showers.
		The house is an example of Italianate architecture with Gothic Revival influence.
	www.blakehouse.com (774 words)

	Mathematics and Architecture
		Architecture was modelled on the teachings of Vitruvius and on the classical architecture which was still plentiful, particularly in Greece and Italy.
		The object of his architectural researches, however, was not to learn to reproduce Roman architecture, but to enrich the architecture of his own time and to perfect his engineering skills.
		Architecture was another of his specialities and he learnt about it, in particular the mathematical principles behind it, from studying Alberti's texts.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Architecture.html (3448 words)

	"ARCHITECTURE" related terms, short phrases and links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Architecture is the imaginative blend of art and science used in the design of environments for people.
		Architecture is a building art with many styles, and it has been with us since the beginning of time.
		Architecture was seen, after all, as one of the essential liberal arts during the Renaissance.
	www.keywen.com /en/ARCHITECTURE (918 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		Prior to the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, domestic architecture of the Great Basin region was largely what could be termed "survival" or vernacular in style.
		The study of domestic architecture in Utah can be divided into four periods: 1) 1847 to 1869; 2) 1869 to 1905; 3) 1905 to 1945; and 4) 1945 to the present.
		England's Edwardian architecture (1890-1914) did much to shape the direction of architecture in America during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/a/Architecture.html (1759 words)

	Belarusian Architecture
		The history of Belarusian architecture is the history of the development of Belarusians as a nation in the middle of Europe - a nation experiencing numerous invasions and wars, absorbing and developing European ideas and philosophies, building socialism, capitalism, and still struggling to its better future.
		The further development of Belarusian architecture was happening in times when Belarusian, Lithuanian and partly other lands have formed a powerful commonwealth state - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		As for the monuments of cult architecture it was mainly within Belarusian Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles.
	www.belarusguide.com /culture1/visual_arts/Architecture.html (3995 words)

	Middletown Information
		The impact of the Georgian style in Middletown was primarily seen in the introduction of rigid symmetry, a balanced façade, the diminishing use of the overhang, and the increasing use of classical ornamentation on the interior and exterior.
		The architecture of the time is characterized by both diversity of form and floor plan and exuberance of surface embellishment.
		An equally important architectural legacy of the Victorian period are the many houses constructed in the residential neighborhoods of the late nineteenth century.
	www.middletownplanning.com /Committees/DRPB/middletown_architecture.html (2414 words)

	Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic
		Architecture and Induction: Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic
		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.
		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)

	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)

	[Project Rastko] THE HISTORY OF SERBIAN CULTURE - Ivica Mladjenovic: Modern Serbian architecture
		The architecture of the Patriarch's Palace (1892) belongs to the neo-Renaissance, although the author found his inspiration on the boundaries of the Renaissance, and among the Romantic and Byzantine symbols.
		In the periodical "Architecture", edited from 1931 to the middle of 1934 by Dragotin, alias Dragutin Fatur, a Slovenian, with an editorial board from Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana, the Belgrade modernists Kojic, Maksimovic, Zlokovic, Belobrk and, especially, Dobrovic were highly publicized.
		The general reproaches were: the modern trend architects apply their dynamic architectural expression, characterised by exceptionally pure lines, in private buildings, usually villas and apartments for lease and pleasure, instead of to collective colonies, medical institutions, schools, children's shelters and sanatoria.
	www.rastko.org.yu /isk/imladjenovic-modern_architecture.html (4978 words)

	Architecture
		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.
		This is an overview with a focus on the old styles in the center of town and in the farm architecture throughout town.
		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)

	Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French is also heard in the state of Veracruz in the cities of Jicaltepec, San Rafael and Mentideros, where the architecture and food is also very French.
		They are the Molokans or "milk eaters", and they preserve their culture in Baja California, with the architecture in their houses and museums, they produce fine wine (Along with the large Italian community that lives near them) and their language and traditions, as well as dresses and festivities.
		The wave of Armenians, Lebanese, Syrians and Greeks came to Mexico in the early 20th century, mainly settled in urban areas and Baja California in proximity to relatives in California, U.S. is one notable migration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexico (8820 words)

	The Walling of Awareness
		Most critics examine modern architecture as one would examine an exhibit of paintings in a museum: they write about the "articulation of light" and the "thingness of the brick" and they ignore the hostile reality of the modern design in which human beings live, work, buy and die.
		A radical analysis of modern architecture examines the inherent messages and values from which modern architecture is formulated and which it perpetuates.
		We recognize that modern architecture does not promote individual, subjective worth; that its monumental aspects intimidate more than they inspire; that social control — and not free and willful cooperation — is its underlying motive; and that it is ecologically unsound.
	www.processedworld.com /Issues/issue09/09walling.htm (3216 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1847
		Year 1847 (MDCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
		At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
		Abd al-Kader is captured and imprisoned by the French.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1847 (980 words)

	New York Architecture Images- SEARCH- central park
		A preexisting building, still intact, is the Arsenal, at Fifth Avenue and 64th Street, erected in 1847, converted into the Museum of Natural History about 1870, and remodeled for Department of Parks offices in 1923.
		The main entrance to Central Park is at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, originally planned with a small plaza.
		This picturesque piece of architecture was built without the help of mortar or metal supports.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /CP/CP.htm (0 words)

	100 Best Architecture Books
		This selection of architecture books attempts to represent the best Western buildings and architects in proportion to their merit.
		Books that are more about history than architecture have been omitted as belonging more to the category of history than to architectural history.
		Gene Waddell is an architectural historian; College Archivist, College of Charleston; and author of Charleston Architecture, 1670-1860 (Charleston: Wyrick and Co., 2004).
	www.cofc.edu /~waddelle/ArchitectureBookList2.htm (1548 words)

	Education, Arts, and Scholarship : Art and Architecture: LDSFAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Latter-day Saint architecture of the early period reflected existing building traditions and emerging Church doctrines.
		The early period architecture, especially that of Nauvoo, provided a pattern for later Mormon cities in the West.
		The pre-1847 era also saw the beginning of an inherent conflict in Mormon building theory between architecture as art and symbol and architecture as simple shelter.
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /view.asp?q=257 (247 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		During the Mexican period (1821-35), relatively little architectural progress was made beyond the construction of dwellings and some military work, although several new towns were established, including Bastrop (laid out in 1830), Liberty (founded in 1831), and Gonzales (founded in 1832).
		Architectural motifs from many historic styles were combined in an eclectic fashion, with the Medieval Romanesque and Gothic vying with the Renaissance for popularity.
		The architecture of the first half of the twentieth century reflects the growing unity of architectural expression throughout the United States.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/cmask.html (6036 words)

	The Architectural Association
		The Architectural Association is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK.
		It was founded by a group of dissatisfied young architects in 1847 to provide a self-directed, independent education at a time when there ws no formal training available.
		Courses are divided into two main areas - undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma, and postgraduate programmes, which include specialised courses in housing and urbanism, energy and the environment, history and theory, design, as well as day-release course in building conservation, garden conservation, and environmental access.
	www.ellipsis.com /evolutionary/aa.html (392 words)

	Emma Willard School Campus Architecture
		Margaret Olivia Slocum, an 1847 graduate of the Troy Female Seminary, and second wife of famous financier, Russell Sage, presented the school with its new campus, and also commissioned M.F. Cummings and Son, Architects, to build three structures.
		The facade of the Chapel is adorned by a large clock with Roman numerals of wrought iron; when renovated from gymnasium to Chapel, the tradition of fine carving and hardwood paneling were followed; the Chapel is also equipped with a hand-made pipe organ, the pipes of which line the back wall of the choir loft.
		In accordance with the Tudor Gothic architectural style of the three original structures built on the Pawling Avenue campus, all later structures were designed to blend with this architectural style.
	www.emma.troy.ny.us /campus/architecture/index.php (1624 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The single-most important factor that shaped Victorian architecture as we know it was the invention of balloon frame construction; which is still the primary way homes are built today.
		It "enabled them to understand the supremely important roles of fantasy and decoration in architecture in a manner far beyond anything we are capable of - this led to many of their houses being far more human and livable than ours." What a fitting opinion for such wonderful homes.
		These homes, with their massive elaborate architecture, could only be afforded by those at the top of the class system.
	www.normanhistorichouse.org /Architectureframe.htm (3849 words)

	SACRED GEOMETRY IN ARCHITECTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Architecture, when employed as a means of embodying principles of universal harmony can sustain us rather than drain us, so that our homes become our havens, and our work places support our creativity.
		Hidden within the architecture of material existence are the geometric forms, the building blocks which make life possible as we know it.
		The architecture of the buildings we inhabit as our dwellings, our work places, our healing and education centres, and our churches and temples, has similar impact on our senses as the architecture of nature.
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~jkoch/sacred.html (4120 words)

	Architecture
		Afghanistan : an atlas of indigenous domestic architecture / by Albert Szabo and Thomas J. Barfield ;foreword by Eduard F. Sekler.
		Architectural heritage : inventory and documentation methods in Europe : proceedings, Europeancolloquy organised by the Council of Europe and the FrenchMinistry for Education and Culture, Direction du patrimoine,Nantes, 28-31 October 1992.
		Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early Republic.
	www.alternativehomebuilding.com /Sjct130.html (960 words)

	designfeast.com -- architecture
		Architectural Association: "Established in 1847 as a forum for architectural debate and reform.
		Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. : "ARCC is an international consortium of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of research culture and infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines."
		Initiative for Architectural Research: "IAR is an effort to provide a singular voice advocating for the varying complexity and breadth of research being conducted by architectural practitioners, academics, and members of the building industry."
	www.designfeast.com /architecture/default.htm (2219 words)

	Building Movers, Building Dismantlers - William Gould Architectural Preservation, LLC
		William Gould, Architectural Preservation, LLC furnishes dismantled antique homes from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		These historic buildings are meticulously documented, labeled, and packaged in order to preserve their historic character throughout the entire shipping and reconstruction process.
		A dedicated preservationist, William Gould Architectural Preservation, LLC has long worked to save historic houses and barns endangered by change and development.
	historic-architecture.com /historicbuildings.html (1336 words)

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		In the official lists in sections 6.2 - 6.10, an asterisk (*) next to a protocol denotes that it is new to this document or has been moved from one protocol level to another, or differs from the previous edition of this document.
		While they may be proposed as a service protocol at a later stage, and thus become proposed standard, draft standard, and then standard protocols, the designation of a protocol as experimental may sometimes be meant to suggest that the protocol, although perhaps mature, is not intended for operational use.
		Sometimes one protocol is replaced by another and thus becomes historic, or it may happen that a protocol on the standards track is in a sense overtaken by another protocol (or other events) and becomes historic (state 5).
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1880.txt (5715 words)

	Foreign Architects in Ottoman Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		However a full curriculum of architectural education was established only with the foundation of the School of Fine Arts (Mekteb-i Sanayi-i Nefise) in 1883 according to the model of École des Beaux Arts.
		Western influences were not only observed in the architectural education but also in the municipal organization of the capital Istanbul.
		Architectural pluralism in 19th century-Istanbul observed on the facades of the new building types such as banks, office buildings, hotels, multistory houses, theaters etc., created opposition against the foreigner architects among Turkish intellectuals.
	sanat.bilkent.edu.tr /interactive.m2.org/Architecture/nasir.html (2294 words)

	:..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.::
		In 1847 architecture was added to the curriculum of the Muhendishane-i Berr-i Humayun and taught in accordance with Western methods.
		In 1929 the teaching of architecture was broadened in adding a construction department to the existing water and road branches.
		A meeting of the ITU Senate in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Architecture at Taskisla.
	www.archmuseum.org /biyografi.asp?id=17003 (613 words)

	American Society of Landscape Architects, Pennsylvania and Delaware Chapter
		Landscape architecture continued to influence the city beautification and planning movement well into the 20th century, as growing cities used the services of professionally-trained landscape architects.
		Landscape architecture in the 1990s cannot be described in a few simple terms.
		The profession of landscape architecture continues to evolve as it meets the challenges of a society interested in improving the quality of life and the wisdom with which mankind uses the land.
	www.landscapearchitects.org /education.html (2365 words)

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