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  Denmark - Culture - Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1874
The Pangkor Treaty of 1874 was a treaty signed between the Sir Andrew Clarke on behalf of the British and Raja Abdullah of Perak.
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss (born Weisz Erik in the native Hungarian), one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time as well as an investigator of spiritualists.
Anders Jonas Ångström Anders Jonas Ångström (August 13, 1814 – June 21, 1874) was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1874   (6448 words)

  
 Architecture
Cemeteries throughout the country are adorned with Egyptian architecture, ranging from the massive Egyptian arch spanning the entrance of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven
Classical architecture draws on the Golden age of Athens and the Roman Republic, the ancient ancestors of the American Republic.
Architectural styling made the monuments in these cemeteries as pleasing to the eye as the landscape.
www.uni.edu /connors/Architecture.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Art-Toward-Architecture
As a point of departure, for studying mural painting and its relation to architecture, I have chosen Renaissance Italy of the 14th century particularly because it was in Italy that a synthesis developed between painting and architecture.
His intense awareness that architecture sets up certain statement of its own which dictate somewhat the partial development of a mural composition, is revealed by his reaction on being informed that the previously quoted wall dimensions were slightly off.
All elements in architecture are composed of vertical and horizontal movements, i.e., steel mullion and glass, door frames, doors, cabinets, bricks, lights, etc. the problem in composition here is to relate the enclosure to the painting while at the same time retaining the distinctive individuality of the canvas.
www.minschew.com /allpages/Thesis.htm   (11088 words)

  
 Architecture & Macaroni
To further understand the nature of macaronic thinking in architecture, a crucial corollary to append to the fundamental analogy between cooking and designing elaborated by Scarpa and his entourage is that, in traveling to see architecture in other places outside of their own region, architects cannot visit buildings without tasting local dishes and wines.
In front of such an architecturally rich edifice, architects or future architects who would like to increase their appreciation of the power of res extensa in architecture should have a dish of homemade tagliatelle al sugo.
Architectural and culinary thinking makes macaronic thinking alive by shaping and regulating conceptual development by considering the necessary and positive interchanges that take place between impressions of subjective and objective qualities.
www.inmamaskitchen.com /FOOD_IS_ART/archcook.html   (3994 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.
This is an overview with a focus on the old styles in the center of town and in the farm architecture throughout town.
www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/houses.html   (8747 words)

  
 1874 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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1871 1872 1873 - 1874 - 1875 1876 1877
1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1874   (989 words)

  
 Architecture | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Futuristic architecture was an early 20th century form of architecture, characterized by long horizontal lines.
See also 1848 in architecture, 1849 other events of 1849, 1850 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
See also 1937 in architecture, 1938 other events of 1938, 1939 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Architecture   (404 words)

  
 Architecture
Their proposed solutions to many architectural and planning problems display so much common sense as to seem obvious, and yet the wisdom they bring to their encyclopedic topic is anything but commonplace.
This compellingly readable biography by the British architectural historian Gillian Darley brings Soane, the working-class knight, to life as a mass of contradictions: a paranoid with real enemies, a once-devoted father who became estranged from his sons and a roaring eccentric who rose to the pinnacle of his strait-laced profession.
Guido Guidi's subtle color photographs are among the most affecting architectural images in recent memory, capturing the spirit of place that was all-important to the master, as well as evoking his poignant sense of the passage of time.
partners.nytimes.com /books/99/12/05/reviews/architt.html   (2799 words)

  
 Architecture, Domestic
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.
Houses of the Morea : vernacular architecture of the northwest peloponnesos (1205-1955) = Spitia tou Morea :paradosiake architektonike tes voreiodytikes peloponnesou(1205-1955)
www.alternativehomebuilding.com /Sjct7.html   (1067 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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   (3855 words)

  
 Guide to Stick Style Architecture - UMass Dartmouth Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Architectural pattern books were the source for many houses in this style but all practicing architects of the day designed and built houses in the Stick Style including big name designers such as H.H. Richardson and Richard Morris Hunt.
Downing is a very important figure in the discussion of architecture and landscaping during the era of the American Gothic Revival.
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century.
www.lib.umassd.edu /reference/stickarch/stick_architecture.html   (6343 words)

  
 Architecture
Includes information on the religious history, architecture and art work of the Basilica, as well as a chapter on a Mithraic temple that was discovered there.
Documents the beginnings of Modernist architecture in Denmark, reproducing plans and photographs of churches, schools, numerous houses, industrial buildings, competition drawings etc., as well as material on the Tuborg brewery.
The strikingly handsome gravure reproductions are supplemented by detailed historical and architectural information in the brochures.
www.mcgilvery.com /architecture.html   (1426 words)

  
 architecture
A grand approach to the room devoted to architecture is afforded by the stately gateways which stood at the entrance to the Chinese section of the Centennial Exhibition, and were presented to the Museum by the Imperial Commissioners.
The representation of architecture in a Museum must necessarily be confined to models, pictures and certain fragmentary remains.
As they are of full size, and reproduce with absolute fidelity the appearance of the original stone sculptures hidden in the forests, they often deceive visitors by their natural appearance, and are of quite as great service to the student both of architecture and hieroglyphics, as if the real relics were before him.
www.150.si.edu /siarch/handbook/arch.htm   (1881 words)

  
 1874 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Architecture | Visual arts, architecture & Arkansas museums preserve Arkansas heritage
Their design, construction and decoration reflect both common, daily lifestyle issues and the need to present a level of architectural distinctiveness sufficient to render even the humblest edifice unique.
The Hornibrook House (1888) in Little Rock, now The Empress Bed and Breakfast, is the best example of ornate Victorian architecture in Arkansas and is the most important existing example of Gothic Queen Anne style in the region.
"Pillars of Power: Architecture of the Old State House" is a permanent exhibit and can be viewed by the public for free.
www.arkansasheritage.com /visual_arts/architecture   (760 words)

  
 American Domestic Architecture, UM Libraries
This bi-monthly periodical series covers the architecture of the American colonies and the early republic.
The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic, the Greek Revival.
Taos Adobes: Spanish Colonial and Territorial Architecture of the Taos Valley.
www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/guides/amerdom.html   (1504 words)

  
 American Architecture & Decorative Arts
Architectural Styles--a list of the most promenant architectural styles American and otherwise.
Domestic Architecture in the Medicine Creek Comanche Village (Comanche, 1872-73)
A discussion of American architecture isn't complete without a nod to those structures within the built environment more likely to be described as "kitsch" rather than in more traditional architectural terms.
gis.montva.com /departments/plan/issue/linkpgs/arch.html   (360 words)

  
 House History - Architecture
Shingle style can be dated to the publication of an illustration in the New York Sketchbook of Architecture in January 1874.
Although he did not graduate, society then was less diploma conscious than now, and he readily found work in Oshkosh after his arrival in 1867.
Ephriam E. Stevens was born in Maine in 1851, and came to Oshkosh as a child with his parents.
www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org /pages/history/architecture.html   (983 words)

  
 ArchDept
The College of Architecture and Planning (CAP), established in 1966, consists of three departments: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning.
Research is an important and expanding component of the College’s mission: funded research opportunities are available for undergraduate students as well as for graduate students and faculty.
Flores is preparing a book on the impact of the work of Owen Jones [1809-1874] on architecture and the decorative arts in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries.
www.arccweb.org /bsu2.htm   (733 words)

  
 architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
We can focus on the way the buildings and landscaping address the river in accordance with Burnham’s plan and with recent attitudes toward and uses of the river as a place of beauty and recreation rather than (and sometimes in addition to) a vehicle of commerce and industry.
A theme of the Fork might be “layers”: layers of history, from the fork as a trade, transportation and commercial center to a living and office-working center today; layers of geography, from river level to street level, to sky-walk level, each with its own perspective on the architecture of the area.
She is sometimes available to give tours (free of charge) to small college classes -- especially those interested in the intersection of geography and architecture (river tours); those interested in commercial architecture and the development of the skyscraper (downtown tours and Streeterville), and those interested in Victorian housing styles (Wicker Park).
homepages.luc.edu /~jgolden/architecture.html   (2397 words)

  
 POWCA: Previous Conferences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It then moved to Vallejo and Benecia before the legislature settled in Sacramento in 1854.
Construction on the Capital building was begun in 1860 and completed in 1874.
The architecture was patterned after the ancient Spanish fortress at Panama.
www.powca.org /conference/previous03.html   (381 words)

  
 History of American Architecture
This course is designed to acquaint you with the American built landscape and with the ways that architectural historians and others have studied and analyzed it.
As the semester progresses, you will want to consider how architectural history contributes to our understanding of society and culture, and how an understanding of the built environment can contribute to public interpretations of that culture and to the historic preservation movement.
Remember that one of your goals is to place the buildings you study into an architectural historical context, and to do that requires LOTS of reading of both primary and secondary sources.
www.eiu.edu /~history/faculty/small/HIS5050.htm   (1508 words)

  
 American Architecture, Antique Architecture, Richardson Romanesque, H.H. Richardson, Henry Hobson Richardson
As the New England colonies grew and prospered, the new architectural styles and building techniques that made their way across the sea from England were adopted by New England craftsman with a unique New England adaptation.
There is such a rich architectural heritage and wonderfully preserved stock of antique homes in our New England area, We thought you might like an introduction to the styles and their history.
It's surprising how much the town's architecture reveals about the town's history if you know the dates of the predominant architectural style in town.
www.realviews.com   (418 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chapel
Although the architectural feature of parallel apses was early introduced into the West, they had no effect upon the rite in places where the Roman Liturgy was in use, but remained at first mere sacristies.
In France and Spain, where the Gallican Rite prevailed, they would doubtless be used in the Oriental way.
BELLETT (London, 1883); LENOIR, Architecture monastique (Paris, 1852); MARTIGNY, in Dict.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03574b.htm   (5377 words)

  
 Architecture
Cornelius John Soule was educated in architecture at the prestigious South Kensington School of Science and Art in London, England.
I believe that the South Kensington style is evident in some of his architecture.
It has the wavy pattern in the gable shingles and two circles side by side and two verticle slots in the chimneys.
www3.telus.net /rockytop/Architectue.htm   (263 words)

  
 Providence Public Library Booklists: Historic Homes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"Architectural details and measured drawings of houses of the Twenties"
"Preservationist's progress: Architectural adventures in conserving yesterday's houses"
The library has many other resources on historic homes and architecture – be sure to ask a reference librarian for assistance.
www.provlib.org /accessinfo/booklists/historichouses.htm   (250 words)

  
 1874
Numerous misspellings are present, as might well be expected in the late 1800s.
1874 Ravage terrible de sauterelles dans le Kansas et d'autre parts.
Alfraidé 16 aout 1871___________________________Mary Louise le 19 avril 1874
www.electroauthor.com /marcotte_genealogy/1874.htm   (6266 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Shingle styles : innovation and tradition in American architecture 1874 to 1982
Find in a Library: Shingle styles : innovation and tradition in American architecture 1874 to 1982
To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/756bc031dd7b415aa19afeb4da09e526.html   (57 words)

  
 19th and Early 20th century American and European Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Below are several links to 19th and early 20th Century American and European architecture sites on the Web.
This is only a small sample of the sites available; it is by no means a comprehensive list.
Be sure to check the Internet Guides listed here as well as those in the Architectural History, Architecture, and Art History sections of the Internet Resources Subject Guide for more sites on this subject.
www.library.uiuc.edu /arx/ARCHITEC.HTM   (257 words)

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