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	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.
		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.
		The one European dictatorship hospitable to modern architecture was that of Benito Mussolini in Italy.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761595616__1/Modern_Architecture.html (8151 words)

	Canadian Architecture - MSN Encarta
		Perhaps the strongest influence on Canadian architecture in the mid-1800s was the Gothic Revival style of England.
		The architecture of the Parliament buildings quickly came to symbolize the new country, which was expanding from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
		Canadian architecture in the 50 years after the 1867 Confederation was strongly influenced by design techniques and styles that looked to past architecture for ideas and inspiration.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_461575434_2/Canadian_Architecture.html (2296 words)

	alumni . cornell facts \| Dragon Day
		It was said at the time that the Architecture class of 1901 was perhaps the most spirited that the University had ever seen, mainly because of the actions of Willard Straight.
		The freshman architecture class is unified throughout the celebration of Dragon Day, and often their class spirit is judged by the dragon that they are able to construct.
		Architecture students pass along stories of Dragon Days past as folklore and legend, and the holiday might be somewhat devoid of its mystery and surprise if all the bare facts were revealed.
	www.alumni.cornell.edu /cu_facts/read_more.cfm?id=55 (1233 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)

	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 and Zoning Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Architectural style is a simple way of classifying buildings of a particular period according to these common design characteristics.
		Queen Victoria lived from 1837 to 1901, and anything built during her reign is considered Victorian.
		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)

	Buffalo 1901
		The architecture of the exposition was in the style of the Spanish Renaissance, the traditional architecture of the former Spanish colonies in the Americas.
		The color scheme, the style of architecture, and the use of sculpture are all aspects which are important for understanding the fair.
		Along with the main "Pan-American" architectural mode of the Fair, it was built in the Spanish Revival style, and sported a central, brightly colored, octagonal dome that rested on a square base.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1901buff.html (2525 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)

	Architectural Style : Victorian
		Perhaps national pride encouraged an admiration for the architecture of previous periods of national confidence: Elizabethan, Jacobean and Scottish Baronial.
		Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was a brilliant exponent of the approach, producing a series of influential country houses in the 'Old English' style and then developing the 'Queen Anne' style for town and country.
		The Victorian Society is the national society responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Style/Victorian.htm (372 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Architecture:History:Periods and Styles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The architecture of the pointed arch, the rib vault and the flying buttress, which came together to form the fully Gothic style in mid-12th-century France.
		This ornate architectural style was popular in Spain and its American colonies during the 16th century.
		The Italian Renaissance ('rinascimento' means rebirth) from c.1420 to the mid-16th century rediscovered and re-used the architectural standards and motifs of Ancient Rome.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Architecture/History/Periods_and_Styles/desc.html (689 words)

	A Hundred Years of Dutch Architecture. 1901-2000. Trends, Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Each of these projects embodies a 'take' on a particular architectural issue and serves as a crystallization point for five approaches - traditionalist, expressionist, functionalist, rationalist and postmodern - that can be distilled from the welter of design strategies.
		The significance both social and designwise of the five architectural strands is explored in as many essays before moving on to the documentation.
		One hundred characteristic architectural works - one for each year - are placed against a backdrop of the technical and social developments.
	www.booklounge.com /content/view/full/3217 (206 words)

	The Landscape Architecture Profession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Landscape architecture is one of the most diversified of the design professions.
		Landscape architecture continued to influence the city beautification and planning movement well into the 20th century,as growing cities used the services of professionally-trained landscape architects.
		Landscape architecture in the 1990's cannot be described in a few simple terms.
	www.inasla.org /aboutlandscapearchitecture.htm (2043 words)

	Lawrence Hall [Architecture of the University of Oregon]
		This model (1980s) shows the south facade of the Art and Architecture Building which was destroyed in 1957 and replaced with a new structure.
		This building was constructed to the east of the 1901 Mechanical Hall and was designed to be similar in appearance to that building.
		The library's reading room is named for Marion Dean Ross, architectural historian and first chair of the Art History department, who died in 1991 and left a large bequest to acquire architectural books.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /guides/architecture/oregon/lawrence.html (1057 words)

	Architecture in China
		This architectural battlefield is my destination the next morning, for the groundbreaking of a high-rise destined to dwarf them all, and everything else on the planet.
		An 80-year-old building had to be spared, not because of architectural features but rather the shady characters shuffling in and out of its gates.
		Professor Guan Zhaoye, an architecture instructor at the country's top school, Qinghua university says there are two sides to foreign participation in the revival of Shanghai.
	www.gluckman.com /ShanghaiArchGeo.html (3021 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Building Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Steel was too expensive for general architectural use until after 1890.
		1901, the St. Paul Building (center in photograph) was the second tallest.
		Built with a steel skeleton and six Otis Brothers hydraulic elevators with a speed of 600 feet per minute.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /TYPE/TYPE-Office.htm (2457 words)

	Cupola's Hot Links - Architectural Listings
		Other fine guides to historic American architectural styles using local examples are available from the City of Cincinnati, Ohio website, and from Ingolf Vogeler at the Eau Claire branch of the University of Wisconsin.
		One of the most dramatic is this incredible collection illustrating the effects of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 around the greater Bay Area (well worth the wait for the entire page to load).
		Its architectural galleries include buildings from all over the world, categorized by architect, location, and period.
	www.cupola.com /html/hotlinks/hotarch1.htm (4367 words)

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page
		Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria, reigned between 1901 and 1910.
		The style is a precursor to the simplified styles of the 20th century.
		By 1900, most architecture was reflecting a revival of some sort from pre-Victorian times, (see Period Revivals, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Gothic Revival).
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /Edwardian.htm (744 words)

	Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901
		It opened May 1, 1901, replacing the temporary facility set up in the Service Building during the previous 8 months to provide medical services to construction workers on the grounds.
		A T-shaped structure, its architecture was "old mission" style in keeping with the Exposition theme.
		Because he was transported to the Emergency Hospital immediately after the shooting and had his surgery there, the hospital became a tourist destination until the Exposition closed on November 1.
	panam1901.bfn.org /medical/hospitaldesign.html (619 words)

	Published Art Bookshop - A Hundred Years Of Dutch Architecture 1901-2000 - Architecture
		Each of these works embodies a specific response to an architectural problem and represents a crystallization point of one of the various approaches that can be distinguished within the gamut of design strategies, namely a traditionalist, an expressionist, a functionalist, a rationalist and a post-modernist approach.
		These five approaches to architecture are reconstructed by analysing the interconnection between a building's form, construction and function.
		Their architectural and social significance is examined in five separate essays that precede the documentation.
	www.publishedart.com.au /bookshop.html?book_id=817 (140 words)

	The Legacy of Albert Kahn - W. Hawkins Ferry
		Known principally for his development of modern industrial architecture, Kahn also made significant contributions in the areas of commercial, civic, institutional, and domestic architecture.
		Dividing the early and late works, each chapter is a chronological presentation of designs within a given architectural category.
		Eclectic and visionary, the man whose legacy included the General Motors and Fisher Buildings, the Rouge Plant, and a considerable number of buildings on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus continues to be a source of inspiration for a new generation of architects.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /glb/art/ferrylak.htm (148 words)

	Federal Reserve Board: Touring the Board
		They could not ignore the traditional style of public architecture in the nation's capital--monumental scale, classical references provided by columns and pediments, and generous use of symbolic ornamentation.
		The École des Beaux-Arts movement in architecture, which was grounded in the study of Greek and Roman architectural traditions, called for the interrelationship of all the arts.
		An architectural firm practicing in this tradition would therefore have to have the skill and resources to engage in every aspect of the building: exterior, interior, structural, functional, technical, and aesthetic.
	www.federalreserve.gov /generalinfo/virtualtour/architecture.cfm (1597 words)

	History of Architecture
		Architectural theory, from the Renaissance to the present: 89 essays on 117 treatises.
		Introduces the reader to the essential qualities of architecture as revealed through history, and provide an "appreciation of the general state of the architectural world as it appears at the close of the 20th century." Includes bibliographies.
		Although strictly architecture journals are excluded, articles on architecture in general art and design journals are included.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/ArchHist.html#world (5432 words)

	P.O.V. - Brother Outsider . Marching on Washington . History of the Mall \| PBS
		Also disrupting the L'Enfant Plan for the Mall was a red brick medieval style museum with the funds donated by Englishman, George Smithson and the insertion of a railroad terminal cut into the Mall.
		In 1901 a new plan for Washington D.C. was created by a commission headed by Senator James McMillan and comprised of city planners Daniel Burnham, Charles F. McKim, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
		They succeeded in legitimizing a growing governmental structure by using the landscaping of the Mall to re-enforce symbolic relationships (the North-South and East-West axes of which the Capitol, the White House, and the Washington Monument are the focus.) Their plans were completed in 1922 with the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2002/brotheroutsider/march/themall_1800s_1901.html (289 words)

	Metal Architecture, March 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first was the discovery of oil near Beaumont, TX, in 1901.
		The 1980s might well be called the decade of the "dress-up" as far as the metal building industry is concerned.
		It was during this time, according to Jim Tallia, vice president, architectural products at VP Buildings, Memphis, TN, that architects really began to experiment with metal building systems.
	www.metalarchitecture.com /edit/399ma.htm (1263 words)

	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Summary
		Following his parents' wishes, he began to study architecture in 1901 at the Dresden Technical High School, but much of his attention was given to painting symbolistic Jugendstil works.
		Born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Kirchner studied architecture in Dresden beginning in 1901.
		After studying architecture, he studied painting in Munich and was influenced there by Art Nouveau styles as well as by the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer.
	www.bookrags.com /Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner (1140 words)

	Pan-American Exposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Report on the opening of the Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo in 1901 highlights the architecture and landscpaing, and new inventions to be displayed, Literary Digest (May 11, 1901).
		John Brisben Walker, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1901), looks at the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 as a prophecy of the city of the future, well planned and designed for the benefit of all instead of for individual profit.
		By William McKinley, Sept. 5, 1901, extolling American progress and calling for construction of an isthmian canal and expansion of foreign trade to vent domestic surplus.
	www.boondocksnet.com /expos/panamerican.html (1129 words)

	Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia
		Kahn’s use of heavy masonry materials and natural light to form interior spaces was in dramatic contrast to the prevailing styles of modern architecture.
		Kahn was also an influential teacher whose philosophic approach to architecture influenced a whole generation of American architects.
		Kahn’s drawings and models of his projects are located and on display at the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.gophila.com /C/Architecture/510/Louis_I_Kahn_(1901_1974)/511.html (121 words)

	Victorian Architecture
		Victorian style is a popular way to describe eclectic trends during the reign of Queen Victoria.
		This specific architecture incorporated many things such as asymmetrical design, ornate woodworkings (also known as jigsaw), and vibrant colors as you can see in the top picture.
		The whole idea of Victorian architecture is to go wild.
	members.tripod.com /~A_C_3/VCT.HTM (61 words)

	Penn State College of Arts and Architecture \| Current Students
		We are pleased to share with you this comprehensive listing of scholarships and awards available through Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture.
		While the majority of the scholarships and awards listed in this publication are specific to a department or school, some are available to any student enrolled in the College of Arts and Architecture.
		You are encouraged to use the University’s Office of Student Aid, 314 Shields Building, (814) 865-6301, to explore other funding opportunities that may be available to you outside of the College of Arts and Architecture.
	www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu /current/endowments.html (195 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project
		The CAOHP was begun in 1983 under the auspices of the Art Institute's Department of Architecture to record the life experiences of architects who shaped the physical environment in Chicago and surrounding communities.
		It was intended not only to fill an existing void in the literature but to go beyond the facts to explore motivations and influences, behind-the-scenes stories, and personal reflections.
		These narratives explore the development of Chicago's architecture and planning from the early 1900s to the present day.
	www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/caohp (419 words)

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