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  New York City, New York Bed and Breakfast Inn - 1871 House (a New York City style Bed and Breakfast) - New York ...
The apartments are located in a landmarked circa 1871 five-story townhouse built in the architectural style of the much-loved New York City row house, or "brownstone." Designed in the simplified "Italianate" style, the house's architecture features tall pedimented windows and an elaborate cornice.
The low-profile 1871 House is small, quiet, private, and residential with an old-world ambiance.
Because the 1871 House is at the epicenter of a chic & bustling neighborhood, many of the Upper East Side's finest restaurants are in close proximity as are Madison Avenue's chic boutiques and stylish cafes.
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  1871
1871 in architecture See also: 1870 in architecture, other events of 1871, 1872 in architecture and the architecture tim...
Quebec general election, 1871 In the Quebec general election in June and July of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière.
Treaty of Washington, 1871 The Treaty of Washington was a 1871.
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 Architecture
Anglo-Saxon architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in 1066.
Architecture of Quebec The architecture of Quebec is characterized by the juxtaposition of the old and the new and a wid...
Hoysala architecture The Hoysala architecture is the stone temple Halebid, and Somnathpur.
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 ARCHITECTURE (Lat. arc... - Online Information article about ARCHITECTURE (Lat. arc...
works of architecture properly so called these elements must exist, and be harmoniously combined.
evolution of the art of architecture will be considered in various sections, associated with the nations and periods from which the leading historic styles are chronologically derived, in so far as the dominant influences on the art, and not the purely local characteristics of countries outside the See also:
section on what can only be collectively termed Modern architecture deals with the main lines of the later developments down to the present day in the architectural history of different countries.
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 Architecture in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is why monumental buildings are lacking and folk traditions have dominated architecture - especially in the use of wood, based on centuries of craftmanship and experience with the material.
In 1905 several architectural contests were launched, and a major ground rule was the use of a Norwegian style.
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.
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 moaproject
Although architectural historians beginning with James Weirick in 1988 have called for the document’s publication, the lengthy typescript, neither edited nor indexed, has presented a daunting task for scholars and an economic impossibility to publishers.
Architectural history: Mahony Griffin’s text supplements the autobiographies of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan to better define the cultural context that gave birth to architectural modernism in America.
Although architectural historians have been hoping for a published version of this text for years, the sheer page length of the manuscript, as well as Mahony Griffin’s diffuse and discursive (perhaps even hypertextual) writing style have persuaded scholars that finding a traditional publisher for the manuscript would be difficult if not impossible.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/birmingh/projects/moaproject.htm   (2079 words)

  
 Architecture of Chicago, Illinois - American Architecture
In 1803, Fort Dearborn was built and remained in use until 1837 except between 1812 and 1816 when it was destroyed in the Fort Dearborn Massacre dring the War of 1812.
In 1871, most of the city burned in the Great Chicago Fire.
As a result of the fire much of the city needed be rebuilt, this gave city planners a clean slate to fix the problems of the past.
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 New York 1880
New York's cosmopolitanism was frequently invoked as a justification for the eclectic architecture that characterized the Gilded Age.
Leopold Eidlitz was born in Prague in 1823.
After 1880, fine architecture became a public responsibility of the rich, to be enacted in the houses they built for themselves and in the charitable institutions they supported.
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 MSN Encarta - American Architecture
American Architecture, architecture that developed in the European colonies in America and subsequently in the United States.
Moreover, two separate regional English colonial architectures resulted from the difference in social, economic, and religious objectives of English settlers of the northern coastal colonies and English settlers of the southern coastal colonies.
During the colonial period, America lacked the kind of architecturally educated patrons who might sponsor the grand and formal styles of architecture then current in European countries.
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 ACADEMY, GREEK (ACADEME) - LoveToKnow Article on ACADEMY, GREEK (ACADEME)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A school of painting was added in 1815, and special schools of sculpture and architecture in 1871.
They consist of an antique school, upper and lower schools of painting, a school of drawing from the life, a school of modelling from the life and an architectural school.
Admission is gained by submitting certain specimens of drawing or modelling, and the successful candidates, called probationers, have then to undergo a further test in the schools, on passing which they are admitted as students for three years.
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 Lincoln park History
From the park grounds themselves, which were once home to a small pox hospital and a cemetery, to the architecturally diverse buildings this neighborhood has no shortage of attractions.
Tracings its roots to the 1820s, the once swampy, forested prairie land that was to become Lincoln Park was founded with the building of a small US army post at what would become Clybourn Street and Armitage Avenue, and the erection of a slaughterhouse on river east by Archibald Clybourne.
In 1871 the Great Fire destroyed most of the houses in the area –only homes north and west of Larrabee Street were saved.
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 Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Andrew Dickson White retained his passion for architecture throughout his life, and played a crucial role in the growth of the architecture program and in the development of the Cornell campus.
The collection of architectural photographs grew and was used in classrooms well into the twentieth century.
The goal of the A. White Architectural Photographs Project is to make accessible to the public a well-housed, fully-catalogued collection of approximately 9,000 mounted photographs, ranging in size from 11 inches x 14 inches to 22 inches x 28 inches, and 119 albums, which contain approximately 4000 images.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Heinrich, Freiherr von Ferstel
In the masterpiece of modern ecclesiastical architecture he produced a structure of marvellous symmetry designed along strong architectural principles, with a simple, well-defined ground plan, a harmonious correlation of details, and a sumptuous scheme of decoration (1856-79).
After his death this edifice was proposed by Sykes as a model for the new Westminster cathedral in London.
In 1866 Ferstel was appointed professor at the Polytechnic School, in 1871 chief goverment inspector of public works and in 1879 was raised to the rank of Freiherr.
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 American Architects' Biographies: N   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association in Salma, California, and the Boston Art Club.
He became an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1875 and was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Chapter, of which he was an officer from 1882 to 1903, being president four times during this period.
He was an instructor at Pratt Institute in architecture and in furniture design from 1898 until 1904.
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 GoChicago.com - The Official Chicago & Illinois Tourist Office Website
Frank Lloyd Wright - The Prarie Style of architecture emerged in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Frank Gehry - The beginning of the new millennium has brought noteworthy architecture by Frank Gehry to Chicago, including the centerpiece of Millennium Park, the steel Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the BP Bridge.
Chicago Architecture Foundation/ArchiCenter - The CAF is the foremost expert on Chicago architecture, offering more than 70 different tours—on foot, by bus, or on a boat cruise down the Chicago River.
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 Ieoh Ming Pei
This architecture was meant to represent the bamboo tree, a plant that represents revitalization and hope.
One of his most criticized pieces of architecture is the Pyramid of The Louvre.
The architecture of the Louvre is significant because it had strong influences on French architectural styles for decades.
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Those knowledgeable about the arts and architecture are all the time going on about how this building or that is the most "beautiful" ever designed and built.
The list of candidates for such a title would be almost as long as the history of architecture itself.
Begun in 1871, the building took seventeen years to complete even though parts of it were in use during that interval.
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 1871 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: 1870 in architecture, other events of 1871, 1872 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
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 cv
April 9, 1998: "Architectural Policy and the Destruction of the European Jews."Lecture in the series 'Art in the Holocaust: Expression Under Constraint,' co-sponsored by the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, and the Bernard and Rochelle Zell Center for Holocaust Studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois.
January 28, 1995:"The Ideological and Punitive Function of Architecture for the SS."Paper presented at the symposium "Architecture and Institutions,"University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
June 4-6, 1992:"The Architectural Policy of the SS and Albert Speer's Plans for Berlin in National Socialist Germany."Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, Goethe-Institut, Chicago, Illinois.
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 Calvert Vaux
He learned the practice of architecture as an apprentice to London architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, and he subsequently joined Cottingham's firm at the conclusion of the apprenticeship.
Downing was seeking an architect to join him in a design and architectural practice he was forming in Newburgh, New York.
Vaux then continued in architectural practice, first in Newburgh, and later in New York City.
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 Salem Massachusetts Architecture.
While Salem is best known for its First period and Federal architecture, equally outstanding buildings from later periods can be found in the Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, and Colonial Revival styles.
This style arose out of the young nation's desire to identify with the ideals and architecture of the ancient Greek Republic and was heightened by the Greek Revolution in 1821.
The Italianate style was inspired by the vernacular farmhouse architecture of the Italian country villas.
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 Historical perspective for Aboyne   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surrounded by forest uplands, and skirting a large green, Aboyne is a pretty little place, possessing a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the North of Scotland Bank, a good hotel, a public library and reading-room, and a picturesque high-roofed school (1874).
The old mansion of Balnacraig has sunk to a farmhouse: but the house of Glentanner, 4½ miles WSW of the village, has risen from a shooting-box to a large two-winged mansion adorned with rustic work,stained glass, pine dados, panelled ceilings, and antique furnishings.
The mission church of Dinnet (minister's salary, £80) has 180 attendants: and the two public schools of Aboyne and Glentanner, with respective accommodation for 160 and 74 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 145 and 31, and grants of £131, 16s.
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 artnet.com: Resource Library: Dartein, Fernandde   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1860 he went to Lombardy, where he began a study of Lombard architecture that was published in 1865–82.
In 1869 he was also assisting Reynaud in his architecture courses at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, where he became a full-time professor of architecture in 1871 and assistant director of the school in 1896.
Dartein explicitly continued Reynaud’s rationalist approach to architectural history in arguing that architectural forms were derived from gradual experimentation with materials and their structural capabilities, not from the forms of nature.
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 Skyscrapers In Chicago - The Epitome Of Chicago Architecture
The history of Chicago architecture began in the decades of 1880s and 1890s with the Chicago School starting the trend of construction utilizing the steel frame and large pieces of glass plate.
This new and modern type of architecture by Burnhan and Jenney came to be known as the Commercial Form of architecture, but was later renamed by historians as the Chicago School.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and widely considered as a leading expert in modern architecture has worked labeled under the Modern or International style.
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 ARCHITECTURE
The first origins of Art Nouveau architecture in Catalonia are in the new Escola Provincial d'Arquitectura (Provincial Architecture school), created in Barcelona in 1871 and leaded by the architect Elies Rogent i Amat (1821-1897).
Before the foundation of that school, the tendencies to the Art Nouveau had been present in the works of architects as Josep Domènech i Estapà who, instead of his eclectic orientation and his explicit refuse of Art Nouveau, he mustn't avoid the influences of that style with shapes remembering the Austrian Sezessionstyl.
The development of Art Nouveau in Catalan architecture was enormous and is today present all around Catalonia.
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 Controversy surrounding the Nomination of Lighthouse Park
Lighthouse Park developed between 1871 and 1930, retains the integrity of its overall design and individual features, and has remained primarily a residential neighborhood since its initial development.
In addition to providing information to the public regarding the nomination process and the potential impacts to properties placed on the National Register, HARB's responsibility was to make a recommendation as to whether the application should be placed in the nomination process at the state level and whether the proposed district boundaries were appropriate.
A lot of the historical architectural preservation and restoration that has taken place in St. Augustine has done so in the last 25 to 30 years.
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During the revolution of 1848, when it was invaded, the rebels used the palace as a hospital for their wounded.
In 1849 painting and sculpture exhibitions were displayed in the palace and it also under went a make over, being complimented with tastes of 16th century Italian architecture.
In 1871 the palace was burned to the ground during a clash with another communard government.
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 Harvard Design School - Harvard Design School Faculty
Sibel Bozdogan is a historian of modern architecture with a professional degree in architecture from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey (B.Arch, M.Arch, 1979) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1983) with a dissertation on the Professionalization of Architecture in Chicago, 1871-1909.
Her interests range from the history of modern architecture in Europe, the US, Mediterranean and the Middle East (19th and 20th centuries) to critical investigations of cross-cultural exchanges, modernity, national identity and postcolonial theory as they have informed the production of art and architecture across the globe.
She currently serves as the Director of Liberal Studies at the Boston Architectural Center.
www.gsd.harvard.edu /cgi-bin/faculty/details.cgi?faculty_id=714   (149 words)

  
 History of AAP 3   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Charles Babcock served as Cornell’s first professor of architecture and dean and director of the School of Architecture from 1871 until 1896.
He was born in 1829 in Ballston Spa, New York.
In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, he also completed two textbooks, Elementary Architecture (1876) and Vaults (1884), and developed an extensive set of illustrations for the history of architecture and construction.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /Aap-exhibit/AAP3.html   (193 words)

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