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	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1893-1893
		1893), Coxhead created an idealized version of the half-timber cottage: picturesque, slightly irregular, even a little awkward, yet controlled by the encompassing double-bowed roof, with each element clearly articulated by surface timberwork to form a crisp, linear pattern (Fig.
		The idea must have come from schemes by Edward Prior, which were having an important influence on English domestic architecture at that time; but the interpretation, in its form, detail, and absence of regional ties, was Coxhead's own (Longstreth 1998: 160).
		By 1893, Coxhead had built himself two substantial homes, one in Pacific Heights and another in San Mateo with a view to the bay.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_19thc_015.html (3948 words)

	Architecture
		Architecture periodicals are found in the Periodicals Department on the first floor in alphabetical order by the title of the journal for current issues.
		Architecture video programs and films are found in the Media Department on the first floor.
		Royal Architectural Institute of Canada -- RAIC is the voice for architecture and its practice in Canada.
	library.auraria.edu /findit/subj_guides/humanities/arch.html (2978 words)

	Modern Architecture - Search View - 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 /text_761595616__1/Modern_Architecture.html (8151 words)

	The Colgate Scene - September 1997 - Village Architecture
		Pevsner’s view of architecture as "the art of the establishment" (churches and palaces are never cheap) was shared by most architectural historians.
		For the past ten years, at family weekends and reunions, I’ve given architectural tours of the village and I’m always gratified by the enthusiastic response of guests to our architectural environment and the fine examples of the vernacular styles of the nineteenth century.
		They associated historic architectural styles with cultural values: the architecture of fifth-century B.C. Greece symbolized their democratic aspirations and the Gothic style of thirteenth-century Europe echoed their fascination with the picturesqueness of the Middle Ages.
	www4.colgate.edu /scene/sept1997/architecture.html (1552 words)

	Chicago 1893
		However, many individuals who were skeptical of women entering the architectural field took advantage of this occurrence, bolstering their argument that they were not physically capable of such a demanding career.
		While in 1893 the cause of suffrage did receive some attention, this was not always the case.
		One might ask if the 1893 building was meant as an appeasement for women, as an attempt to curb their appetite for further actions towards equality.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1893chic.html (6211 words)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1893-1895
		No reference to the unique architecture of Pacific Heights would be complete without mention of the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem, located at 2107 Lyon Street, the northwest corner of Washington Street.
		It was established in 1893 by Reverend Joseph Worcester, occupant and designer of one of the rustic Marshall cottages on Russian Hill.
		In this respect, his attitude toward architecture may have had a greater effect on Schweinfurth than it did on Coxhead and Polk.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_19thc_016.html (3513 words)

	Architecture Papers
		Wagner is concerned and aware of the public, and that art is there to serve them, to accommodate them, to better the quality of life for mankind.
		After evaluating the evolution of ancient cultures and their architecture, Wagner offers the lesson that this is the path we must return to.
		Victorian architecture borrowed from a variety of styles, including classical, Gothic, and Renaissance, and was characterized by ornate decoration.
	www.mindrelief.net /architecture.html (1294 words)

	Earth Architecture
		Earth Architecture began February 22, 2003 as a way to organize online research on earthen architecture and now, after almost 5 years of blogging on earth architecture, a book on the subject that will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in the Fall of 2008.
		The Zürich based architecture office INSTANT (Dirk Hebel and Jörg Stollmann with Tobias Klauser) has designed a water bottle that can be recycled and filled with local soil and stacked to form temporary shelter.
		On December 26, 1893, Chairman Mao was born in a simple mud-brick farmhouse, which has 13 rooms in the village of Shangwuchang of Shaoshanchong.
	www.eartharchitecture.org (1609 words)

	Charles Alonzo Rich Builds the New Dartmouth
		This study investigates the two dozen buildings that Charles Alonzo Rich designed at Dartmouth College between 1893 and 1914, first as a member of the firm of Lamb & Rich and then in solo practice beginning in 1899.
		The College was expanding into a university at the turn of the century, a shift that was in some ways a difficult one.
		But not all of his work was so sensitive; the monumental ambition of Rich's initial designs can shed light on his project as a whole.
	www.dartmo.com /rich (1634 words)

	© ASLA.org
		While these accounts are not inaccurate, they overlook a critical element in the history, namely, that women as designers, writers, and critics actively engaged in and shaped the discipline at the same time as the practice emerged as a profession.
		The project presented here, in the form of a dissertation, offers a reading of American landscape architectural history focused on women as “force” in the profession between 1893 and 1942, subsequently revealing a rich diversity of practices during this significant early period.
		The year of 1893 saw the World’s Fair in Chicago where the work of Frederick Law Olmsted’s office was lauded as a critical success establishing landscape design as a fine art.
	www.asla.org /awards/2005/students/winner10.html (1125 words)

	Architecture of the AYPE
		Architecture is the soul of a major exposition.
		Afterwards, when all else is forgotten, architecture - from the Crystal Palace to the Space Needle - evokes the most immediate memory and continues to create a history and association among those who never attended the fair.
		While architecture can be appreciated in various media, there is no substitute for experiencing the impact of visiting it in person and today we can, for the most part, only enjoy the great fairs in a remote way.
	home.comcast.net /~dkerlee/architecture.htm (1077 words)

	ARCHITECTURE
		Strickland, an outstanding exponent of the Greek Revival in America acquired his architectural training under the renowned Benjamin Latrobe In 1836 Strickland had been one of the organizers and the first president of the American Institution of Architects, the organization which anticipated the later founding (1857) of the American Institute of Architects.
		"The architecture of the building consists of a Doric basement, four Ionic porticoes, two of eight and two of six columns four feet in diameter, surmounted by a Corinthian tower in the center of the roof, the whole height of which is to be 170 feet from the summit of the site.
		The future architecture of the Tennessee Valley is indicated by the city of Norris, where a new standard for rural existence is being set.
	newdeal.feri.org /guides/tnguide/ch16.htm (3779 words)

	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.
	www.reisenett.no /norway/facts/culture_science/architecture_in_norway.html (6366 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Henry, Architecture in Texas
		Architectural historians had come to grips with the nineteenth century, but tended to view it as a prelude to modern architecture, created in Europe and America in the 1890s.
		I have decided to describe this body of architecture in Texas as modernistic, which serves to revive a common 1930's term and strip it of pejorative connotations, just as eclectic is no longer considered a negative term.
		Perhaps half the architecture discussed is found in the eight or ten cities registering a population of 100,000 or more in the 1940 federal census, and a far greater proportion was designed by firms whose headquarters were in such cities.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhenarc.html (5368 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1893 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
		May 5 - Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
		October 30 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1893.htm (1213 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 (6036 words)

	designfeast.com -- architecture
		Architectural Association: "Established in 1847 as a forum for architectural debate and reform.
		Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. : "ARCC is an international consortium of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of research culture and infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines."
		Initiative for Architectural Research: "IAR is an effort to provide a singular voice advocating for the varying complexity and breadth of research being conducted by architectural practitioners, academics, and members of the building industry."
	www.designfeast.com /architecture/default.htm (2219 words)

	Architecture and Zoning Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Architectural style is a simple way of classifying buildings of a particular period according to these common design characteristics.
		A rebirth of classical Greek architectural elements, this style is relatively rare in San Francisco.
		Borrowing loosely from early American architecture, the Colonial Revival house often included Palladian windows (from the 16th Century Venetian architect Andrea Palladio, or Andreo Palladian), a four-sided flat-topped hipped roof, clapboarding, shingled facades and stained-glass windows.
	www.sharonkramlich.com /sfinfo/architecture (1643 words)

	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)

	Alvaro Siza
		The architecture of Alvaro Siza is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit.
		His architecture is formed in quiet and seclusion; then there is the slight but ever precise touch of his works, which seem to emerge as clean, precious points among the contemporary urban blight, yet at the same time making one painfully responsible for those problems.
		He called architecture the "mother of the arts," and yet "the most difficult of all the arts" lamenting the fact that unlike writers or painters, an architect can't tear up his mistakes.
	www.pritzkerprize.com /siza.htm (5042 words)

	Shedd Aquarium \| About Shedd \| Architecture Styles
		In 1925, the Chicago architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White was hired to design Shedd Aquarium in the grand Beaux Arts tradition.
		It was clear that Shedd’s very architecture would have to change to keep pace.
		Once again, architecture would shape the experience, guide the senses and create the “wow!” visitors have come to expect from Shedd.
	www.sheddaquarium.org /sheddarchitecture.html (556 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 in Downtown Dallas: Architecturally Significant Buildings
		Dallas, Texas with a population of 1,188,580, is a city with a very recognizable skyline that has been used in many television shows and movies.
		Dallas has many fine examples of Modern Architecture, while Fort Worth has many fine examples of historic buildings that have been carefully restored.
		Justin Terveen is a very creative photographer who has a keen interest in architecture and urban photography.
	www.dallasarchitecture.info /dallas.htm (1434 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Libraries
		The Ryerson Library (built 1901) and the Burnham Library of Architecture (founded in 1912) form a research collection of national and international significance, one of the largest art museum libraries in the world.
		The Reading Room, which constituted the original Ryerson Library, was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the architects of the 1893 building on Michigan Avenue.
		Physically merged in 1957, the Libraries hold extensive collections of monographs on art and architecture, exhibition catalogs, art and architecture journals, auction sales catalogs, microfilm and microfiche, pamphlet files, and archival materials.
	www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/index.html (140 words)

	Bibliography Plan: The Prairie School of Architecture
		Architecture is a broad topic, so I went through a narrowing process, based on my preferences, from architecture to American architecture to modern, 20th century American architecture to Prairie Style architecture.
		Architecture is an art form, and like any art form tell much about the society from which it evolved.
		Deals primarily with residential architecture and explains how the Prairie School was opposed to the predominate style of architecture at the turn of the century, eclecticism.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~nahl/students/martin.html (3749 words)

	George Washington's Mount Vernon - Preservation & Archaeology
		So completely ingrained in the subconscious of the public are Mount Vernonâs distinctive architectural elements, that the designs of untold numbers of houses continue to incorporate those features, often without their ownersâ awareness of the original source.
		The distinctive two-story piazza is the most copied component of the mansion and it has become one of the most recognizable features in American architecture.
		Beginning with the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Mount Vernon was selected to serve as the prototype for the official American pavilion at numerous worldâs fairs and expositions.
	www.mountvernon.org /learn/pres_arch/index.cfm/pid/624/cfid/6077379/cftoken/38145982 (468 words)

	SAH :: Society of Architectural Historians
		Louis Henry Sullivan was born in Boston and studied architectural design briefly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Although Wright was fired from the firm in 1893 for taking independent commissions, the six years he spent in the Adler and Sullivan office were the most influential years of his training.
		Wright's independent career, which lasted from 1893 until his death in 1959, is one of the longest and most distinguished of any architect in America.
	www.sah.org /sandbox/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=160&meid=63&POSTNUKESID=2bd73d821caba7250c13935ea5196cab (827 words)

	Glimpses of paradise \| Art And Architecture \| Arts \| Telegraph
		It is found, too, in the formidably abundant, geometrically organised vegetation of the Ardabil carpet, of 1539-40 - the largest and oldest carpet to survive from the Safavid period in Iran, and unquestionably one of the most extraordinary creations of textile art to be found anywhere in the world.
		In 1893, the year the VandA purchased it for the sum of £2,000, William Morris pronounced it 'the finest eastern carpet which I have seen', adding that its design was 'of singular perfection, defensible on all points, logically and consistently beautiful'.
		It rightly occupies the very centre of the Jameel Gallery, having been placed on the floor, as it once was in a great shrine at Ardabil, in north-west Iran, but now protected by a huge case of perfectly non-reflective glass that enables it to be seen in all its dizzying complexity of floral forms.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/23/svislam23.xml&page=4 (200 words)

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