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  Princeton - Profile 2002 - The School of Architecture
The School of Architecture, Princeton's center of teaching and research in architectural design, history, and theory, provides students with a course of study that reflects contemporary and emerging issues in architecture.
Architecture is approached as a cultural discipline, with an emphasis on the pivotal role the architect plays in the development and construction of buildings, cities, and landscapes.
The School of Architecture has remained committed to its original goals: providing undergraduates with a well-rounded liberal arts education and a strong basis for additional studies in architecture, and offering graduate students a comprehensive education in design, technology, and the history and theories of architecture.
www.princeton.edu /pr/facts/profile/02/20.htm   (509 words)

  
 ArtLex on architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
Sir Banister Fletcher wrote in A History of Architecture, "The interior of the building is dimly lit through pierced marble lattices and contains a virtuoso display of carved marble.
"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html   (2258 words)

  
 City of Sumy
Modern look of the cathedral was the result of the last reconstruction done by M. Lovtsov, Academician in Architecture, in 1882-1892, at the expense of traders Dmitriy and Nikolai Sukhanovs from Sumy.
Architecture of the cathedral combines elements of renaissance, classicism, barrocco.
It is situated in the building of former State Bank built at the beginning of the XX century by architecture G.Sholts.
www.fortunecity.com /olympia/undertaker/948/avia/engl/city.htm   (506 words)

  
 Architecture Records
Included in the collection are architectural drawings prepared by Gurda for buildings which he designed, among them the new church of St. Adalbert's parish (1930), St. Francis Hospital (1956), Wisconsin's first drive-in banking window at Lincoln State Bank (1950), and several elementary schools.
There are materials relating to Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural exhibit which displayed at the Layton Art Gallery in 1930 and a reference file on the famous architect which Partridge maintained.
Records of the Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and its predecessor, the School of Architecture.
www.uwm.edu /Libraries/arch/architecture.htm   (1431 words)

  
 Architecture
The skyscraper is the most important development in 20th century architecture.
Preachers at time called the Woolworth Building the "Cathedral of Commerce" because of its Gothic details and its 3-story lobby with gold mosaics, one of which depicts Woolworth holding his building, just as medieval paintings depicted the donors of churches offering their works to God.
In 1922 an important architectural competition was held.
www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/art/19c/arch/skyscraper.html   (939 words)

  
 Princeton - Profile - The School of Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The master's degree requires study in all four areas of the curriculum: design, technology, history and theory, and analysis and representation.
The four-year doctoral program focuses on the history, theory and criticism of architecture, urbanism, and landscape.
In recent years, the school has enrolled approximately 70 graduate students and roughly the same number of undergraduate students.
www.princeton.edu /pr/facts/profile/00/20.htm   (379 words)

  
 Architecture in Belgium: Antwerp
Guilds were a fundamental element of economic life, and in each town in Flanders the major guilds competed to create the most impressive structure for their organization.
The Guild Houses on the main square in Antwerp are modeled on domestic architecture.
They reflect the tradition of building in wood with their use of stone to imitate wooden pillars and beams.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/antwerp_arch.html   (574 words)

  
 Architecture tour -- Brief History
Pasadena Public Library was founded December 26, 1882 as private subscription library under the name "Pasadena Library and Village Improvement Society." The Library's founding thus predates the City's incorporation by four years.
An architectural competition was held to choose the architects for all three buildings.
Ten California architectural firms were invited to submit drawings for all three buildings and were advised to use the architectural styles of the Renaissance or later periods as found in Mediterranean countries.
www.ci.pasadena.ca.us /library/brief-history.asp   (489 words)

  
 :..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.::
With Sedad Hakki Eldem, who defended the idea of International Architecture, he designed buildings such as the Science and Literature Faculty of Istanbul University (1944), and the Ankara University Science Faculty (1947) which display a historical influencece in their proportions.
One of Onat's most important legacies to Turkish architecture is his belief in the role played by architects in improving the lives of the people and in their development and education, views which he made known through his works and teaching.
When ITU was being established, it was his idea that a Faculty of Architecture should be included, and it was he who was able to infuse a deep-rooted tradition of engineering with the atmosphere of an architectural school within the short space of ten years.
www.archmuseum.org /biyografi.asp?id=10   (757 words)

  
 Washington County, Maine--Historic Sites
Built in 1829 or 1840, this church's exterior was remodeled in 1870, and the design reflects Greek Revival influence with it's triangular gabled pediment, wide cornice and corner pilasters.
A splendid example of the best in New England architecture, generations of families and hard work have also supported and woven this building into the fabric of the town.
The entire downtown is an homogenous, cohesive grouping of 29 architecturally and/or historically significant buildings, built after the fire of 1886.
www.sunrisecounty.org /pb/hist/histall.htm   (7415 words)

  
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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882) "The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person.
I like an Arch"" Parallax Louis Kahn quotes "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth." Louis Kahn "All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture." Frank Lloyd Wright "The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart.
filebox.vt.edu /users/grmorris/quotes.doc   (3738 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- Cass Gilbert
Introduced to architecture as a draughtsman and carpenter's assistant, Gilbert enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1878 as a pupil of William Ware.
Gilbert (1859-1934) was born in Zanesville, Ohio and began his architectural career as an apprentice in the office of Abraham Radcliff of St. Paul.
The use of a skyscraper form for a federal building was a significant departure from the accepted norm for federal architecture, which favored horizontal forms.
www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-CassGilbert.htm   (1115 words)

  
 Knights of Pythias Castle Hall - Architecture in Downtown Fort Worth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This replica of a medieval civic building is one of the architectural jewels of Sundance Square.
The building was also the site of the first offset printing press and the first washeteria.
In 1981, when the building was restored, a replica of the original knight (cast in 1882) was placed on the building.
www.fortwortharchitecture.com /knights.htm   (145 words)

  
 Libraries/ArchArch: Collection Information [Carnegie Mellon Libraries]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Architecture Archives' collections date from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and document a diverse cross-section of the region's built environment.
Collections represent, for example, the high-style architecture of Beaux Arts Classicism and Modernism; the progressive architecture of creative individualists; and the architectural vernacular of developer housing, "Main Street" commercial buildings, and roadside architecture.
Carnegie Mellon's own architectural heritage is well represented, along with a sampling of the student and professional work of University alumni and faculty.
www.library.cmu.edu /Research/ArchArch/collinfo.html   (117 words)

  
 Croq3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Croquis d'Architecture 1882  # 8201                        $235
Croquis d'Architecture 1882  # 8202                        $235
Croquis d'Architecture 1882  #8211                        $169
antiqueprintsbysower.homestead.com /Croq5.html   (157 words)

  
 Lamson Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From Baroque To Rococo; An Introduction To Austrian And German Architecture From 1580 To 1790
Baroque Art And Architecture In Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland.
Painting And Sculpture: Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries; Architecture: Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries.
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/architecture,+baroque   (107 words)

  
 William Martin Aiken Collection
His architectural education and travels are recorded in a series of sketchbooks.
There are measured plans and photographs for the Charles Anderson, Jr., House, 1886; a drawing for the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 1885; and photogaphs of houses designed for Francis Lane and for Henry Preserved Smith and photographs of other types of buildings including the Electric Light Station, 1891, and the Eden Park Barn, 1892.
The sketches are primarily of miscellaneous architectural details by other architects in the United States and Europe.
www.cofc.edu /~speccoll/aiken.htm   (587 words)

  
 books about: 1882 (israeli-palestinian transnationalism transformation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The early paperback edition of this book, which was originally published in 1956 and covers the period from 1882 until 1940, characterized it as the "first political biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," and it continues...
In 1882, Congress passed a Chinese exclusion law that barred the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years.
The Chinese thus became the first people to be restricted from immigrating into the United States on the basis of race.
www.very-clever.com /books/1882   (956 words)

  
 Broadway Baptist Church - Architecture in Fort Worth's Medical District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The congregation was organized in 1882 as the South Side Baptist Church.
In 1886, a wood frame building was constructed and the congregation changed to its current name.
In 1961, the church expanded again, and now occupies one full city block.
www.fortwortharchitecture.com /md/broadway.htm   (169 words)

  
 Printed From Houston Architecture Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Considered one of the most magnificent palaces in Europe, Hampton Court Palace's long history and breathtaking architecture have earned the respect of generations of royals.
That would be a minor insult compared to what Sir Christopher Wren had in mind.
While England fawns over his many architectural accomplishments, when he was working for William III he was shortsighted enough to suggest that the entire palace be razed and replaced.
www.houstonarchitecture.info /Printer.php?ID=268   (834 words)

  
 Timeline of Chicago Architecture
1881 - Holabird and Roche architectural firm is founded.
1882 - Marshall Field and Co. begins building new store on State St.
1894 - Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill architectural firm is founded.
library.thinkquest.org /J002846/timeline.htm   (263 words)

  
 Japanese Architecture: Ginza, Tokyo
Trees such as cherry, maple, pine, and oaks had been planted along the streets, but these were replaced with willows, which became somewhat symbolic of Ginza as a whole.
In 1882, arc lights and a horse-trolley were installed and the Ginza began to become popular as a high-class retail area
Most visitors to Ginza came only to windowshop, as the goods on display were far too expensive.
www.orientalarchitecture.com /tokyo/GINZA.htm   (441 words)

  
 Vienna1900: Architecture
Vienna around 1900 is the seedbed for an architectural style that culminated in the functionalism of Adolf Loos and played a crucial role in the development of modernism and postmodernism.
Modern architecture, as defined by Otto Wagner, was a progressive program that dispensed with formal elements and the abundance of decoration that had characterized nineteenth century architecture.
His Postal Saving's Bank, for example, has smooth wall dressings that lend aesthetic justification to his argument that the "modern eye" has lost its sense for a small and intimate scale and become accustomed to longer straight lines, to more expansive surfaces, and to plainer silhouetting.
faculty.washington.edu /vienna/architecture/buildings.htm   (391 words)

  
 Washington County, Maine--Historic Sites Inventory--Cherryfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Description: Victorian porch; illustrates both Federal and Victorian styles of architecture; Italianate bay windows (1790).
Description: Victorian Style architecture (constructed 1882-1885), with rosette windows, and ornamental woodwork gables.
Description: Originally a Cape Cod, this home was remodeled as a Greek Revival "temple" house, then reconstructed as a 2.5 story Queen Anne/Mansard/High Victorian transitional style building, with two pavilions, porch, tower, and balcony.
www.quoddyloop.com /wc/hist/histche.htm   (672 words)

  
 Design Bridges DFC’s European Session
The Design Futures Council recently held a session of its executive board in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to The American Institute of Architects International Committee PIA’s Design Diplomacy: Public Policy and the Practice of Architecture conference.
The session took place at Gammel Dok, The Danish Centre for Architecture—an 1882 historic harborfront building.
Karen Stephenson, President of NetForm and a professor of management at UCLA, began the morning with a discussion about “Innovation and Networks Towards High Performance Organizations.” Dr. Stephenson, a corporate anthropologist, specializes in the scientific principles of network management to help organizations reveal the often unseen interrelationships of human or knowledge capital.
www.di.net /article.php?article_id=104&email=1   (275 words)

  
 WHMC-Columbia--Architecture--COLLECTIONS LIST
Records, including designs and plans, of architects and architectural firms, and records of construction companies.
Records of architectural organizations and architectural preservation groups.
Researchers may also want to consider the architectural holdings of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City.
www.umsystem.edu /whmc/tl-arch.html   (257 words)

  
 ALCOTT, W
FERGUSSON, J. Hist of architecture in all countries.
An outline history of architecture for beginners...NY 1886‹j�‹åWATERS, CEC.
W's architecture and rural art, No I. W's architecture and rural art, N. W's country houses.
world.std.com /~cbw/list.htm   (687 words)

  
 H.H. Richardson
It is a revival style based on French and Spanish Romanesque precedents of the 11th century.
(Romanesque preceded Gothic in European architecture.) Richardson's style is characterized by massive stone walls and dramatic semicircular arches, and a new dynamism of interior space.
Continuity and unity are keynotes of Richardson's style.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/hhr.html   (195 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Hugo Haring: The Organic Versus the Geometric: Books: Peter Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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www.amazon.ca /Hugo-Haring-Organic-Versus-Geometric/dp/3930698919   (217 words)

  
 Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
Van Alen solidified his status as a member of upper-class society by marrying Emily Astor, daughter of society matron Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and William Backhouse Astor Jr.
Like many upper-class Americans, Van Alen was fond of English culture and architecture.
In 1882, he hired English architect Charles Eamer Kempe to design Wakehurst (1884-1887), a stone Tudor mansion modeled after Wakehurst Place, an English country estate in Sussex, England.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/vanalen.html   (199 words)

  
 Historic Sites--Washington County, Maine
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The Weston House is now operated as a bed and breakfast.
[Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise
www.quoddyloop.com /washcohist.htm   (7390 words)

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