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  Architecture
Modern architecture is inspired by modern materials and technology, and by the function of the building itself.
The greatest change in architecture in the 19th century was the raising of office buildings to a status once held only by palaces and churches.
In architecture, this was reflected in the high-rise development of the downtown core of the large cities.
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 Modern Architecture - MSN Encarta
Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright.
As the 20th century began they believed it was necessary to invent an architecture that expressed the spirit of a new age and would surpass the styles, materials, and technologies of earlier architecture.
He attributed his new architectural concepts to educational building blocks he had played with as a child, to Japanese architecture, and to the prairie landscape on which many of his houses were built.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595616/Modern_Architecture.html   (1220 words)

  
 VLN: S.F. Architecture 1890-1892
Most of the houses predate the 1906 fire, and thus dramatically mark the end of the eclectic Queen Anne style, dominant in San Francisco architecture until the turn of the century (Alexander and Heig 2002: 336-37).
One of the Bay Area's architectural landmarks and one of the finest of Coxhead's many Episcopal churches, this one displays his distinctive way of wrapping shingles around forms.
This is one of the major architectural landmarks of the city.
www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_19thc_013.html   (3304 words)

  
 Odin - Architecture in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is why monumental buildings are lacking and folk traditions have dominated architecture, especially in the use of wood, based on centuries of craftsmanship and experience with the material.
Influenced by Danish empire architecture, this strict, but harmonic classic style set its mark all over the country, especially along the southern coast of Norway, where applications in wood are found in large as well as small buildings.
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.
odin.dep.no /.../norway/history/032005-990451/index-dok000-b-n-a.html   (8807 words)

  
 1892 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
You can find it there under the keyword 1892 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1892andaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1892   (1315 words)

  
 VLN: S.F. Architecture 1892-1892
The architectural style reflects the frequently eclectic fashion of the day, but may most briefly be described as Baroque-Queen Anne.
At the time of its construction in 1892, the bank was lauded by Willis Polk and like-minded admirers as the "most beautiful building in the city." The building "clearly declares its purpose and the interior arrangement is plainly expressed by the exterior," Polk wrote.
Built as a narrower structure along Jones in 1892; the building was enlarged to its present size in 1905 and was rebuilt after the fire.
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 Architecture A-L
Remote and unique architectural gems made inaccessible by political conditions, or which have simply burned down or been allowed to decay, are captured in five hundred twelve plates.
Architectural details are excellently illustrated with perfect and obvious example photographs or sketches.
Though the focus of the book is the architecture of wooden churches in Eastern Europe, Buxton grounds his discussion in brief treatments of worldwide log architecture, wooden church architecture in Scandinavia, and the other wood arts and crafts of Eastern Europe.
www.iabsi.com /gen/public/arch2.htm   (2070 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   (6024 words)

  
 Thematic Theories of Architecture
The practice of architecture was, first of all, based on tradition dating back to antiquity, and, starting from this tradition, both the Romanesque and the Gothic building style developed over the centuries, presumably with hardly any or no literary research.
Given the fact that the foundations of modern architecture cannot possibly be the same as those prevalent in Greece 2000 years ago, Viollet-le-Duc saw as his mission to develop a new architecture which would be based, in the same way as Descartes' philosophy, only on facts and reasonable conclusions reached on the basis of them.
The theoretical basis for architecture using prefabricated identical components was largely adopted from the science of normative economics about which a description is found elsewhere.
www.uiah.fi /projects/metodi/13k.htm   (7255 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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)

  
 BSP Gallery Bookshop Architecture books
N.Y. The Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the exhibition "Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde." June to Sept. 1990 or.cl. d/w.
Many masterpieces of Islamic art, such as the Alhambra and the Taj Mahal, were produced during the period between the early 13th century and the advent of European colonial rule in the 19th.
Recording the architectural casualties suffered during the whole period of air bombardment 1940-45 profusely illus.
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 Architecture
Architecture as Dynamic System, presented by Alex Brown (subjects presented: Architectural History, Architectural Theory, Design History, History of Modern Art, Definitions, Glossary, and Articles and Papers.
Architecture and Building, presented by University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries.
Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, by Chuck LaChiusa.
www.cagenweb.com /quarries/architecture.html   (1373 words)

  
 eBay - architecture drawing, Nonfiction Books, Drawings items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Architecture Residential Drawing and Design by Clois E. 3d 07h 52m
Drawing architecture: a creative approach by Paul Hogar
Architecture - Design, Engineering, Drawing - Wm Spence
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 CTheory.net
Of all the varying impacts of postmodernity (whatever we can or cannot agree that to mean) one of the most ubiquitous has been the preponderance of Lifestyle as 'a life of style' -- the "Wallpaper*ization"[2] of the proposed environment we are meant to inhabit.
For in postmodern design and architecture while the outside may have been eclectic, the inside was often the promotion of an austere, commodified minimalism.
While Jencks might have allocated the term 'ecstatic architecture' to such forms of architecture that appear so excessive as to induce " a trance-like state in the onlooker,"[39] the ecstacy is here linked to a typical postmodern New Age/ neo-Romanticist focus on 'nature' as the location of the authentic.
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 Aberdeen Architecture
This house was built in 1892 by Rich Brothers of 31 Windham Street, Brighton, from plans provided by the prominent Boston architectural firm of Cabot, Everett and Mead.
Its basement and first floor are constructed of rubble stone while its main facade is dominated by a broad gable with a flared north roof slope.
Selkirk Road's housing represents a section of Aberdeen with a concentration of architecturally significant c.
www.bahistory.org /AberdeenArch.html   (2421 words)

  
 OZ Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
OZ Architecture, in partnership with Parsons Brinckerhoff, provided an analysis of alternative locations for an Intermodal Facility that will accommodate the future RTD western light rail line.
The major objective of the study was to maximize the opportunities for transit-oriented development for this new neighborhood, located between Lakewood’s existing Union Street commercial area and the west side of the Federal Center.
The goal of this project was to revitalize a former industrial lot in Denver on the fringes of the Lower Downtown Historic District and adjacent to Cherry Creek.
www.ozarch.com /urban_infill.html   (1361 words)

  
 Architecture
The architecture of the historic district of NTC was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924).
Goodhue's style was romantic and modern for the 19th century, but he had a flair for medieval and Hispanic traditions.
Raised in Pomfret, Connecticut, he was 15 years old when he went to work for an architectural firm in new York City.
www.quarterdeck.org /book/architecture.htm   (764 words)

  
 Architecture Indexes
Use this list of periodical indexes to locate articles on architecture, architectural history, construction, building technology, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban design and planning.
Architectural Index is an annual subject index to 10 U.S. professional architecture, building, and landscape architecture magazines.
Covers 300+ journals from 45 countries on architecture and allied arts, construction, design, landscape, and to a limited extent, planning and urban history.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/indexes.html   (2583 words)

  
 Gothamist: Architecture Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Which might be why some architecture critics are saying we're welcoming the new designs for Towers 2, 3, and 4 because we're tired.
The 1892 building, with its orange barrier and plastic-covered door, is undergoing cosmetic improvements.
He announced plans to strip the building of its architectural details and turn it into a 19-story university dorm, outraging just about everyone in the neighborhood.
www.gothamist.com /archives/arts_and_events/architecture   (3298 words)

  
 Women and Architecture
Architecture and Women: A Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers, and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States.
Keyword Searches can be helpful to locate a chapter on a specific woman architect or women in architecture that may be included in a volume on many architects.
This journal is devoted to evaluating and featuring architecture designed by or for women.
library.nevada.edu /arch/rsrce/resguide/archwom.html   (1757 words)

  
 Architecture
There is a peal of eight bells - the oldest cast by William Culverden of London in 1520.
Until 1892, when an upper floor was inserted, the bells were rung from the ground.
In 1892, the Reverend J Carter, vicar of Bisley, wrote "a large majority of those interred here (Bisley) have nothing beyond a green mound of earth to mark the spot where their bones are at rest.
www.chobham.org.uk /st1.htm   (1416 words)

  
 IN THE CAUSE OF ARCHITECTURE
Popular opinion holds that he was more important as a critic and theoretician than as an architect, though his book seems to have had little impact on his contemporaries.
347-353), "The Vicissitudes of Architecture" (Apr.-Jun 1892, pp.
471-484), and "Competitions--The Vicissitudes of Architecture" (Oct-Dec 1894, pp.
www.architecturalrecord.com /inthecause/onTheState/eidlitz-bio.asp   (337 words)

  
 The Vernacular Architecture Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Though amended by later fuller studies and interpretations it depicts the rich variety of Cape architecture, achieved by author's revealing drawings (of elevations seen in period images), and cut-away perspectives clearly showing construction.
Architecture is not static, changes in response to new uses, desires, building failures (“learns”), is thus an expression of material cultures (“tells stories”), should continue to change (“time as form giver”) informed by vernacular studies.
Important architectural history of Cape Town by John Rennie describes physical growth of central city to 1978.
www.museums.org.za /vassa/pub4b.html   (3908 words)

  
 booksondesign.com - Architecture Catalog
Presaged the attack on hide - bound methods and attitudes which a new generation of visionary architectural theorists were to begin mounting in the 1970`s.
Revue mensuelle de l`art architectural publiee avec le concours de la Societe des Architectes diplomas par le gouvernement.
$100.00 Architecture, United States, Buckminster Fuller First edition of this illustrated presentation of the visionary architect"s life and work, featuring a series of utopian projections to the year 2000, where men would live in harmony and without hunger, with personal, transportable homes and flying devices.
www.booksondesign.com /architecture.html   (3921 words)

  
 Architecture
The Architectural Review is the inspirational and insightful architecture magazine with a global perspective.
Architectural college in San Diego California New School of Architecture and Design fosters professional and sensitive students based on the concept of
Architecture Radio broadcasts public lectures on architecture and landscape architecture urban design and engineering.
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 Timeline of Chicago Architecture
1881 - Holabird and Roche architectural firm is founded.
1892 - The Museum of Science and Industry building is built by
1894 - Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill architectural firm is founded.
library.thinkquest.org /J002846/timeline.htm   (263 words)

  
 Richard and Dion Neutra Architecture
Read what the Neutra Firm is up to these days and how your architectural experience can help the firm in the design of new and exciting Neutra projects in the 21st Century.
A look at the irrational demolition of significant Neutra architecture in the U.S. and other historical places.
I develop and administer programs for the Institute, while also serving as consultant and advisor to owners of Neutra buildings who wish to maintain or adapt/modify those buildings in the spirit of the original designs.
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 HER H344 0000 Modern Architecture (3 cr.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Emphasis is given to European and American modern architecture since 1892 and to contemporary architecture in Indiana since 1942.
Selected modern movements such as art nouveau, Chicago school, prairie, the Bauhaus, international style, and post-modernism will be studied.
Special attention is directed to the American architects Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Henri Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, and to their contemporaries in Europe: Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
www.indiana.edu /~enrolctr/iniupui/her/her_h344_0000.html   (72 words)

  
 Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2006.0520
More than 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated on this web site and the Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM, with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.
For powerful focused searches based on multiple architectural criteria, use our unique Advanced Search.
For additional coverage of current architecture, please visit ArchitectureWeek, our weekly magazine of design and building.
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 1892 Victoria's Keep Bed & Breakfast bed and breakfast - Manitou Springs, Colorado. Manitou Springs Bed and Breakfast ...
1892 Victoria's Keep Bed & Breakfast bed and breakfast - Manitou Springs, Colorado.
Victoria's Keep of 1892 Queen Ann architecture, is a vision of Victorian charm surrounded by trees with a small stream bubbling along in front.
Quiet and convenient, 1892 Victoria's Keep is walking distance to historic downtown Manitou Springs, where there are interesting shops and excellent restaurants.
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