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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 In America
Thus arose what modern architects are pleased to call " colonial architecture "—a designation equally applicable to all the colonial styles, but by usage now con-fined to the old English forms; for the tastes and prejudices of the English followed their political successes throughout the Eastern colonies.
Bulfinch was one of the strongest factors in shaping the architectural tastes of the country.
American architectural periodicals have largely supplanted those of foreign publication; and the reproduction of the best current work, built for and adapted to American uses, together with the ease of intercommunication, are tending to create a unity of architecture over the entire country.
www.oldandsold.com /articles10/architecture-31.shtml   (2120 words)

  
 1875
1875 in music See also: 1874 in music, other events of 1875, 1876 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
1875 in science The year 1875 CE in technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
1875 in sports See also: 1874 in sports, other events of 1875, 1876 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1875.html   (263 words)

  
 Architecture
The buildings are typical of the Gothic Revival period of architecture, a nineteenth century style which attempted to revive the forms and details of the original Gothic style of the Middle Ages.
Almost all of the buildings in The Arts Centre complex were in place by the time of the College’s 50th Jubilee in 1923 and their architectural unity may seem remarkable in view of the fact that they had been assembled gradually over the span of half a century.
From 1857 to 1875 he was heavily involved in the architecture of the province and was responsible for many notable buildings including the Canterbury Museum and the Canterbury Provincial Chambers.
www.artscentre.org.nz /Heritage--History/Architecture.asp   (518 words)

  
 Architecture in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The stave churches, built in Norway in the Middle Ages, are unparalleled in the history of architecture.
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.
www.reisenett.no /norway/facts/culture_science/architecture_in_norway.html   (6366 words)

  
 Jacksonville Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The studied formalism of Italian Renaissance architecture was revived in England in 1829 and came to the U.S. sixteen years later.
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris was the most influential school of architecture, painting, and sculpture in the nineteenth century.
Its name is a compound of Jacobean and Elizabethan, indicating that it was derived from architecture of the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and James I (1603-1625).
www.jaxhistory.com /styles.htm   (2596 words)

  
 1875 [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1875 was a common year starting on FridayThis is the calendar for any common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C).
Born Albert Leopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the younger son of Philip, Count of Flanders, and succeeded his uncle, Leopold II of Belgium, on the throne on December 17, 1909....
July 26 - Antonio MachadoAntonio Machado y Ruiz (July 26, 1875 – February 22, 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98....
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 Modern Architecture
In comparison with the enormous strides which have been made during the nineteenth century in all branches of science, the progress of architecture during this period is hardly worth consideration.
The last part of the century has witnessed in England and, indeed, through Europe, a return to the Renaissance principles, seen in a large number of designs in which the classical forms are treated with freedom, and often with skilful adaptability to new materials and new methods of construction.
The closing years of the nineteenth century foreshadowed the vast influence which the extensive use of iron is to exercise in the future upon architectural works and upon all forms of design.
www.oldandsold.com /articles10/architecture-30.shtml   (1078 words)

  
 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Architectural drawing manuals have become much sought after in recent years, as have old architectural drawings.
The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history.
From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs.
www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (4366 words)

  
 VLN: S.F. Architecture 1875-1879
VLN: 19th C. Architecture: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (1875-1879) 10 11 [12-24]
The house at 222 Filbert Street is one of the best looking in the row, but seems to be of later date--1875 at the earliest, perhaps 1880 or a little after (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 63).
The oldest house (1875) in the lane would appear to be 10 Napier Lane, a very simple Italianate structure similar to 293 Union Street (1860's).
verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_19thc_009.html   (750 words)

  
 Zante Architecture
The architecture of Zante has been influenced by the Venetians, the French and the English who dominated the island.
This is why local architecture is a combination of both Baroque and Renaissance styles.
The inhabitants of Zante made an attempt to rebuild the towns of their island following the architectural tradition and style but the poverty created by the earthquake made this very hard to accomplish.The architecture of the church in Zante is very interesting and characterized by their belfries which are looking like small towers.
www.zante-greece.biz /zante-architecture.htm   (270 words)

  
 Oak Square Architecture
Turning to the domestic architecture of this area, it is fair to say that some of the finest examples of late 19th / early 20th century residential design in Allston-Brighton line Washington Street, on Hunnewell Hill.
Designed by the nationally known Boston architectural firm of McGinnis and Walsh, this church was built in 1913-1914.
Essentially L-shaped in form, this house is covered with a skin of wood shingles and enclosed by an intersecting hip and gable roof; the main block 's hip roof exhibits flared roof ridges and Craftsman style brackets.
www.bahistory.org /OakSqArch.html   (3108 words)

  
 Information Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While both the concepts of architecture and its relationship to the design and erection of buildings has changed through history, we are only at the very edges of attempting the formulation of concepts that mimic equivalent relationships.
A general architectural practice during the 1960's and 70's would be responsible for virtually every aspect of design and building from the very inception of the process with the client through to the maintenance and alterations required as the finished building responded to new functions.
It was the Architecture Machine Group at MIT under the leadership of Nicholas Negroponte that led to the establishment of the MIT Media Laboratory.
www.ludvigsen.hiof.no /webdoc/mediaseminar/ai.html   (7266 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)

  
 UVa Fine Arts Library: Collections: Selected Guide to Microforms
Title: Index der antiken Kunst und Architektur: Index of ancient art and architecture: monuments of Greek and Roman cultural heritage in the photographic collection of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome.
Note: the photographic and bibliographic archive of Ancient Roman Architecture and Topography of the Fototeca Unione, part of the International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, History, and History of Art in Rome.
Title: Index der antiken Kunst und Architektur: Index of ancient art and architecture : monuments of Greek and Roman cultural heritage in the photographic collection of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome / edited by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome.
www.lib.virginia.edu /fine-arts/collections/microforms.html   (1681 words)

  
 Art Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Two extended essays on the respective histories of the American theatre and cinema are followed by plates that illustrate every aspect of the two media.
Of particular interest are the examples of the architectural work of Joseph Urban and the set designs of Norman Bel Geddes.
www.sotherans.co.uk /Catalogues/ArtArchitectureSpring/ArtCeramic.html   (3614 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Originally created during the mid-1700s by English architects weary of classical building styles, Gothic Revival does not gain popularity in America until the 1830’s when the novels of Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake) spark an interest in things medieval in America.
These buildings are recognizable by their rounded windows, a row of brackets near the roof, verandas (long porches along the front or side of the building), and bay windows.
Like most architectural styles of the 1800’s, the Queen Anne Style borrows from earlier styles, particularly medieval farmhouses.
www.rjdmuseum.org /Architecture.html   (742 words)

  
 Allston Heights Architecture
This house was apparently built in at least two stages with an Italianate/Stick main block predating 1875 and a towered Queen Anne north ell built in the early 1880s.
It is the curving walls and copper finial topped cylindrical roof cap that calls attention to this house's unusual surface treatments and initially causes this house td be "read" as a Queen Anne house built in a single stage.
Possessing a rectangular main block with a rear ell, 62 Gordon Street is the most architecturally distinguished member of this trio with wood shingles stained dark brown and a sweeping and flared roofline that places this building squarely within the Shingle Style.
www.bahistory.org /AllstonHgtArch.html   (3238 words)

  
 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The last few pages of the architecture section deal with the domestic architecture of the United States; the one illustration is of a log cabin ("the cabin of a western immigrant, (and) a fair specimen of the earliest style of building adopted by the colonists").
One of very few sources of architectural history pubished in the first half of the 19th century in America; it is noted and quoted from in Elizabeth’s MacDougall’s essay in The architectural historian in America (Washington, 1990), p.
The work is written from an architectural point of view; it gives "a description of the different styles of architecture, and the sculptures, paintings, ornaments, and ceremonies of these wonderful temples of Christendom".
www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture4.htm   (4755 words)

  
 American Architecture 1875-1945
The final installment of the series concludes with a study of American architecture in the early 20th century.
Perhaps the most influential period of American architecture, this guide will help provide a concise means to identify the styles and architecture of the era.
Identified with the master of American architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Prairie Style also found its roots in Chicago and the midwest.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/Architecture/21002   (447 words)

  
 Noho.com - The Architecture of Northampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
So much Victorian commercial architecture survives on Main Street that it looks much like it did 100 years ago; this area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Romanesque Revival in the manner of H. Richardson (1838 - 1886) is the style of a number of Northampton buildings, most notably the Hampshire County Court House, built in 1885-87 in the center of town, and the Forbes Library (1895) on West Street.
The important Boston architectural firm of Peabody and Stearns designed the gothic-inspired First Church of Christ (1878) at 129 Main Street, and also College Hall (1875) and Alumnae Gymnasium (1890) of Smith College.
www.noho.com /townarch.html   (785 words)

  
 The Architecture Collection
As a collection, its architectural elements exemplify the upstate neoclassical architectural vernacular of the period.
Small leaded glass sash and other architectural elements were salvaged from the early 20th century British Arts and Crafts style Dowling house, which stood until 1982 on Washington Ave.
The Museum does not actively seek out potential architectural acquisitions, recognizing instead the importance of the built environment left in situ and in context.
www.nysm.nysed.gov /research_collections/collections/history/general/hisarchitecture.html   (613 words)

  
 Raw Vision
In America, the best candidate for an architectural environment reflective of serious psychopathology would have to be the famous Coral Castle outside of Miami, the work of self-taught architect, Edward Leedskalnin.(3) In Europe, a similarly disturbed mental state is seen in Robert Garcet’s Tower of Eben-Ezer, in Belgium.
In 1875, at the age of twenty five, he went to Munich with the goal of becoming an architect.
The many drawings of this period are the accomplished drawings of an academically trained student of architecture responding to the monuments of antiquity with keen intelligence and analytical insight.
www.rawvision.com /back/junker/junker.html   (2210 words)

  
 Architecture of Bangalore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Built in 1875, it was used to house government offices.
While the official buildings are sometimes restricted in terms of architectural escapades, palaces provide a more personal glimpse of individual tastes and personality.
These are but a few architectural glimpses in Bagalore, but to do real justice to the design legacy of the city, you got to be there in person..
www.indiaexpress.com /bangalore/eureka/archi.html   (457 words)

  
 Architecture (Practice of)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Architecture: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Reference Works, Histories, and Handbooks is limited to books in English and Western European languages published between 1875-1980 and accessible in US libraries (from the Preface).
Resources pertaining to the practice of architecture are found in chapter two.
Information Resources in Architecture, a practical and detailed "discussion of the sources of information and the appropriate retrieval techniques available to the professional architect" (from the Introduction).
www.mcgill.ca /blackader/guides/architecture/practice   (604 words)

  
 American architecture, Gothic Revival Style
The most prominent architectural feature is the pointed arch, even in the most modest cottage.
Carpenter's Gothic is unique most New England Gothic homes The strong carpentry tradition in America, the demand for quickly constructed buildings and the abundance of fine timber combined to make wooden Gothic a natural development.
Similar structures would have been impossible in Europe where wood is scarce and freedom with traditional architectural forms would not have been tolerated.
www.realviews.com /homes/gothic.html   (458 words)

  
 Capital Saratoga Region Film Commission
The real beauty of Troy is the combination of functional architecture that has continued to be serviceable even while the world has changed enormously.
A tour of Union College Campus delights the eye, and its emphasis on the arch as an architectural element is ready apparent.
Experience authentic Federal, Victorian and Greek Revival architecture in context of “life how it used to be.” From Victorian Train Stations to the historic Salem Courthouse and Jail, Washington County is an architectural treasure trove.
www.capital-saratoga.com /capital-saratoga-architecture.asp?varSection=1   (1080 words)

  
 :..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.::
As the need for monumental works declined and he became influenced by the local traditions of architecture in southern Germany, Bonatz developed a Neo-Classic simplicity and refinement.
He was a lecturer in the Architectural Faculty at Istanbul Technical University between 1946 and 1955 and took part in the restoration of the Taskisla building where the Faculty was situated.
Bonatz supported the trend towards 2nd National Architecture and his ideas on monumental design had an effect on Turkish architecture.
www.archmuseum.org /biyografi.asp?id=4   (856 words)

  
 History of Adirondack Architecture
The Adirondack Park Agency, established in 1971 to plan and regulate both public and private land, estimated that some 21,000 single family homes were added to the Park between 1967 and 1987.
In 1875 a railroad was completed along the entire west shore of Lake Champlain north from Albany.
But it was Thomas's son William West Durant who developed the architectural style known today as the "Great Camp." Schooled in Europe, Durant was brought back in 1874 to help develop his father's land investments in the central Adirondacks.
www.masterpieces.com /arch1.htm   (1147 words)

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