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  1902 in architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
See also: 1901 in architecture, other events of 1902, 1903 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
Carnegie Libraries of California History, architecture and use of over 100 libraries constructed between 1902 and 1921 from funding by Andrew Carnegie.
Ostbrandenburg 1902 Provinz Brandenburg Landkarte mit von 1902 mit deutschen Ortsnamen.
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 Ruffini Brothers, Architecture - Texas State Library
This way, an apprentice became familiar with the architectural styles in vogue as well as developing a skill he would use in his profession.  Usually, the apprentice practiced this skill on a Saturday, a regular workday in nineteenth century America.
Architectural firms of two or more individuals were the exception at this period of American history.
This section includes architectural vocabulary/terms used in the section on “Comparison of architectural styles” to provide readers of the exhibition with a clearer understanding of the architectural building elements being discussed.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/ruffini/architecture&terms.html   (1039 words)

  
 Architecture in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
reisenett.no /norway/facts/culture_science/architecture_in_norway.html   (6366 words)

  
 Odin - Architecture in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
Because of their important function on the farms they were strongly built of the finest materials under the direction of experienced carpenters and decorated by the most skilled wood carvers.
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.
odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990451/index-dok000-b-n-a.html   (8807 words)

  
 Nikolaus Pevsner
One of his central thesis in The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (1968) was that painters and sculptors were cut off from the public already in the nineteenth century, but architects and designers have accepted social responsibilities, and fulfilled their practical purposes for the public fully and enthusiastically.
"Architecture and design for the masses must be functional, in the sense that they must be acceptable to all and that their well-functioning is the primary necessity.
It hailed architecture as the most important form of all the arts: "All art, so long as it is sound and healthy, serves building." For An Enquiry into Industrial Art in England (1937) Pevsner used research done at Birmingham University in 1934 and 1935.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pevsner.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Architecture
The terms which we often use to describe "colonial architecture" such as: "Salt Box", "Cape Cod", and "2 story Colonial" and which we see in real estate ads are not house styles but, refer to the shape of the body of the building.
In fact, the range of our architecture is broad, of many styles and periods, eclectic, and as several owners lived in the same house, maintained and "updated" it, many changes over the years on a given house have enhanced the appearance of the house and maintained the integrity of the original style or did not.
This is an overview with a focus on the old styles in the center of town and in the farm architecture throughout town.
www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/houses.html   (8747 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The eclectic architecture and urban design of Historicism, which took from the styles of different ages, together with secession influences were crucial in determining the style that united Pest and Buda in 1873.
Buildings of public utility were constructed as spectacular architectural showpieces in the 1890s and at the turn of the century.
Romanticism, evoking Medieval and Oriental architecture, began in Hungary in the middle of the century.
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 Luis Barragan
His architectural practice was in Guadalajara from 1927 until 1936 when he moved to Mexico City and remained until his death.
In his acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, he said, "It is impossible to understand Art and the glory of its history without avowing religious spirituality and the mythical roots that lead us to the very reason of being of the artistic phenomenon.
Architecture, indeed every profession at its most admirable, is a calling, a "vocation" in the root meaning of that ancient word.
www.pritzkerprize.com /barragan.htm   (2052 words)

  
 Architecture
The art of architectural floodlighting, which first came into existence at the beginning of the 20th century, has seen a worldwide renaissance in recent years.
Architecture of the Night is a fascinating, in- depth and richly illustrated account of the history of architectural illumination in American and European cities.
The work of Sert is a clear reinterpretation of Mediterranean architecture: the brise-soleil - as a kind of revitalizing of the wall, the building taken into its own self-reflection, turned to the inside as a place of repose and introspection - in short, the patio house.
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 Arne Jacobsen / Designing Modern Life - Design Museum Exhibition: Architect + Furniture Designer (1902-1971) - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Born in Copenhagen in 1902, Arne Jacobsen worked as an apprentice bricklayer before winning a place to study architecture at the Royal Academy of the Arts in 1924.
Architectural commissions dwindled during World War II, not least because construction materials were so scarce.
By the late 1950s, Jacobsen was given an opportunity to put his theories of integrated design and architecture into practise in the design of the SAS Ari Terminal and Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.
www.designmuseum.org /httpd/design/design_exhibition.php?id=32   (1575 words)

  
 Kip's travelpage. Barcelona. Contemporary architecture.
His record of studies is quite impressive: he studied at the Institute of Architecture in Valencia, at the Federal Institute ofTechnology in Zurich, at the Politechnic University of Valencia, at the University of Seville, at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA.
Josep Lluís Sert was born in Barcelona on the 1st of July 1902.
In Holland he got to know the architecture of H.P. Berlage, whose influence was visible in his works of the period before WW I. Between 1919 and 1924 he made some designs which where alternating striking and authentic.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Shores/8445/contemp.htm   (2469 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Constructed 1902. Unique
Nikolaus Pevsner, born in 1902, was a German Jew and a promising scholar of architectural history when the rise of the Nazis permanently changed his place of abode.
As he approached the town church, he gave a running commentary on its architecture, then later on its internal monuments, brasses, pulpits, rood-screens, before marching off to inspect and remark upon the local manor house, the 16th-century pub, the 18th-century folly and so on.
The second editions were also an improvement since their authors had far more time, and were able to include many more details upon vernacular town architecture, as well as upon industrial structures and more modern buildings, all of which had played a relatively minor role in Pevsner's "churches and castles" approach.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,1100916,00.html   (1794 words)

  
 Architecture at 125 page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Architecture students work in the drafting room in Steele Hall, circa 1911-15.
Dwight Baum, a New York City architect who worked on the SU campus and wrote for Architecture magazine in the 1930s, notes: "Syracuse realizes that the architect must be the most fully trained man of the learned professions because of the wide knowledge he must possess.
The first graduating classes in architecture were small, with 74 students earning degrees between 1900 and 1922.
sumagazine.syr.edu /winter98-99/features/arch/archpg2.html   (864 words)

  
 Architecture
The new architecture demonstrated its virtues in new Siedlungen (low-cost housing) in Berlin and Frankfurt.
The building’s architectural devices, such as the use of allusion in its Renaissance detail and Chippendale-style pediment, make it a symbol of postmodern architecture.
Closely related to the postmodernist interest in historical styles was the historic preservation movement, which during the 1970s and ‘80s led to the renovation of many landmark older buildings and to a tendency to resist new architecture that seemed to threaten the scale or stylistic integrity of existing structures.
cs.clark.edu /~hum101/Humanities_101/architecture.htm   (1776 words)

  
 ARCHITECTURE
“Architecture” includes a wide variety of structures and landscaping.
All settlers begin with a basic roof over their heads ­ housing, but there is much more to architecture.
1902 in architecture can be seen in the Personal Collection Hildreth Section.
www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/main.html   (689 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
On August 15, 1902, at the suggestion of Julius Wangenheim, a highly intellectual and philanthropic local businessman, the San Diego Chamber of Commerce formed a Park Improvement Committee to develop a master plan for City Park and solicit funds for its implementation.
Between the first comprehensive park planning of 1902 and naming the park Balboa in 1910, when preparation began for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition on the City land, the seeds of two great urban improvement movements were brought to San Diego by dedicated citizens.
From her arrival at San Diego in 1883 until her friend Mary Coulston came in 1902, Kate Sessions was the main proponent of Picturesque landscape architecture in town.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/79winter/citypark.htm   (8146 words)

  
 1902 In Architecture Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Architecture timeline - TheBestLinks.com - 1907 in architecture, 1930 in architecture, 1976 in architecture, 1902 in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 architecture
John Notman, noted as the designer of St. Mark's, the Church of the Holy Trinity, St. Clement and many residences in the Philadelphia region, and of "Prospect" and "Guernsey Hall" in Princeton, was a devotee of the Florentine school of architecture so popular in the fifth and sixth decades of the century.
In 1902 a few students roomed on the second floor but soon even these were transferred to other buildings.
It is to be hoped that in the future the grand old building will be protected from changes, both externally and within, unless indeed they tend to restore it to its original form.
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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.
There are no photographs presented, but the location and/or address and the name of the architect are included if known; and the historic registration information is also included.
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 Cope, Walter (1860-1902) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
He served on the faculties of both the University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture (1892-1902) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1902-03).
In addition to the travel (in 1884) already mentioned, Cope journeyed to Normandy in 1889 and to Spain in 1895, this last apparently the source for the design of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind at Overbrook in Philadelphia.
Following Cope's death, the T-Square Club established the Walter Cope Memorial prize to be awarded annually to the winner of a competition in municipal improvement or landscape architecture, these areas chosen in recognition of his interest.
www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23031   (393 words)

  
 In the News - Vol 3 Issue 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Wilson Building, originally known as the District building, was constructed in 1902.
Its architecture is English Renaissance design with French and Gothic influence.
We're committed to making sure that we do all that we can to preserve our city's architecture and are proud to have won this prestigious award.
www.dc.gov /mayor/newsletter/2004/july/v3_issue15_4.shtm   (668 words)

  
 SECESSION Beethovenfries
The declared aim of the exhibition was to reunite the separate arts - architecture, painting, sculpture and music - under a common theme: the "work of art" was to emerge from the interplay of the design of the rooms, the wall paintings and sculpture.
Klimt's monumental wall cycle was located in the left-hand aisle, which visitors to the exhibition entered first.
An opening in the wall offered a view of Max Klinger's Beethoven statue, indicating the interplay of architecture, painting (Klimt's Beethoven Frieze) and sculpture (Klinger's Beethoven) as soon as the visitor entered.
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 Stanford University Libraries: Art & Architecture Collections
The most comprehensive of the smaller art encyclopedias, with coverage of different aspects of art theory, iconographical themes, architectural features, and city planning, in addition to the usual surveys of places and periods.
Another old standard encyclopedia of architecture, covering major architects, styles, periods, countries, terms, and subjects relating to the social and legal aspects of architecture and building.
Contains long, signed articles, accompanied by line illustrations and bibliographies, on the art and architecture, iconography, symbols, epigraphy, paleography, numismatics, liturgy, rites, and ceremonies of the early church to the time of Charlemagne.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/art/237aency.html   (1714 words)

  
 1902 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Luis Barragan: the Quiet Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His masterpieces are famous for their innovative use of colour and for their reduced and abstract formal language.
They harmoniously combine the modern and the traditional, nature and architecture giving results which, although closely linked to the context in which they were born, also assume international relevance.
For the first time since Luis Barragán passed away, the wealth of drawings, documents and original photographs in his archives--now conserved at the Barragan Foundation in Switzerland--has been made available to a group of scholars of international standing and studied systematically.
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 Plurabelle - Architecture; City
Clapham, Sir Alfred: Romanesque Architecture in Western Europe and Romanesque Architecture in England.
Architectural Drawings and Photographs from the Heritage Collection, Leningrad and Architectural Museum, Moscow.
Clapham, A W: The Renaissance of Architecture and Stone - Carving in Southern France in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries.
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 Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The course of the Seine, with its diverse monuments, was topographically followed from Harfleur to Paris, and subsequently in its considerable ramification the stately River Yonne, Melun, Fountainebleau, Sens, and finally the rich town of Auxerre coming under consideration.
Statesmanship and subjunction rise and peacefully sink together, and in his magnetic touch, are made to harmoniously coalesce in the political balance.
Shorthouse the author, a believer in, a champion was of two-fold or dual cosmos: his colour sense being susceptible to and wrought upon in singular consular consistence with the effulgent dogmas of its creed, and in alliance with the spirit of the cinque cento Italian Renaissance Schools of Painting and Architecture.
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 Leeds Met - Architecture, Landscape & Design - Welcome
The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, a part of the Faculty of Arts and Society has over 900 students studying full and part time with an academic and support staff of nearly 50.
The School originated as a part of the Government School of Design in the 1850’s with the Leeds School of Architecture formed in 1902.
Support to students is also provided within a customised building with a range of facilities including design studios with computers, study rooms and specialist areas as well as all the facilities afforded by the University’s Civic Quarter such as computer suites and library.
www.leedsmet.ac.uk /as/ald   (334 words)

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