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	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1906-1908
		The first building for the first department of architecture west of the Rockies, it was called the Ark (Howard was Noah) and was built as a temporary structure, hence its simple brown-shingled form and residential scale.
		The Architectural Record wrote of the design in 1906 that it "promises to be one of the most imposing edifices in the United States devoted to banking purposes." The building is of steel frame construction with a carved granite exterior.
		During the remainder of 1906 and all through 1907, the task of clearing away the wreckage and of carrying out in steel and stone the vision of a new and greater city proceeded at a pace that everywhere won admiration.
	verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_001.html (3485 words)

	Architecture in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 /facts/culture_science/architecture_in_norway.html (6366 words)

	architecture
		Architectural style may emerge from evolution of techniques and styles particular to a culture in a given time period with or without identifiable individuals as architects, or may be attributed to specific individuals or groups of architects working together on a project.
		Islamic architecture, chiefly through Spanish examples such as the Great Mosque at Córdoba and the Alhambra in Granada, profoundly influenced Christian church architecture, for example, the adoption of the pointed arch in Gothic architecture.
		European architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries again focused on the more severe classical idiom (inspired by archaeological finds), producing, for example, the large-scale rebuilding of London by Robert Adam and John Nash and later of Paris by Georges Haussman.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0027833.html (1104 words)

	Architecture in Transition: From Art to Practice, 1885--1906. by Bryan Melnyk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coincident with government manpower goals, architectural training programs were created, assuring professional organizations that architecture indeed had a future in Canada After the turn of the century, more positive relations with governments were evident in the manner that public building competitions were handled.
		In contrast to the situation of 1885, Crossman notes that by 1906 architecture had become a sophisticated art, progressive, competitive, and well-supported by the Canadian public.Architecture in Transition is divided into three main sections.
		The development of architectural education is portrayed as a particular success for the new age of Canadian architecture.Part Two deals with the mastery by Canadian practitioners of the technological and aesthetic challenges posed by the use of iron, steel, and glass.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/703/transition41.html (533 words)

	Odin - Architecture in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 /.../norway/history/032005-990451/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (8807 words)

	ArtLex on architecture
		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.
		"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
		Great Buildings Collection is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html (2264 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The history of the cultural environment of the west is reflected in its commercial and industrial architecture.
		False fronts are typical of the early architecture in the boom or bust days of pioneer towns.
		The "myth of the west" is kept alive in modern commercial architecture in Wyoming.
	uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu /AMS/folkart/arch.htm (681 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1906
		1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000.
		The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1906 (8587 words)

	Philip Johnson
		The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established in 1979 for the purpose of encouraging greater awareness of the way people perceive and interact with their surroundings.
		Architecture is one of the most important of all human activities.
		Next, there is a myriad of new technologies all expressed in building techniques and, therefore, in architecture: the elevator; the steel cage; and long before, the balloon frame; and long, long before that, the beautiful brich of Assyria and Rome.
	www.pritzkerprize.com /pjohn.htm (1939 words)

	Victorian Architecture
		It is light, airy and pleasing in style, and is to the architecture of Europe and the Eastern States as Spanish music is to the grand and heavier compositions of Wagner."
		he years from 1870 to 1906 produced the bulk of San Francisco's Victorian buildings in which there was much overlapping in style trends.
		One cause of the seemingly infinite variety of Victorian architecture in Northern California is the abundant coastal redwood.
	www.victorianstation.com /vicarch.html (1039 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		It featured Root's innovative approach to architecture and lent further credence to his reputation as a man "too original in his own artistic conceptions to form a style based on that of any other architect." Hebbard absorbed Root's ideas and ideology and pursued his search for the American architectural essence.
		The Board of Architectural Examiners, created in 1903, of which Hebbard was an integral part from that year until 1919, was divided into northern and southern districts.
		He began his study of architecture in New York in 1853, as a student in the office of the noted ecclesiastical architect, Richard Upjohn, and remained five years, marrying Upjohn's daughter and later becoming a partner in the firm of Richard Upjohn and Company.
	sandiegohistory.org /journal/87winter/hebbard.htm (11839 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Jones, George Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He studied architecture at the University of London, was articled to Charles Bell (1846–99) in London and joined the RIBA there.
		Jones was an early proponent of a rationalist architecture adapted to the Australian climate.
		In 1906 he published plans of an ideal house, with cubic, stripped classical forms, verandahs and ‘sleep-outs’ in the form of outdoor rooms, and with an axially arranged, open-plan living and dining area.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0450/T045099.asp (377 words)

	Architecture
		Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842.
		From 1906 until 1912, Griffin established his own firm in the Chicago area and became, after Louis Sullivan and Wright, the third most important proponent of the Prairie School of Architecture.
		Recording the architectural casualties suffered during the whole period of air bombardment 1940-45 profusely illus.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /archit.htm (2934 words)

	Architecture
		It may be awarded annually to a graduating student in architecture, on the basis of his or her achievements at the school and the worthiness of the project to be undertaken.
		Upon recommendation of the faculty in the Department of Architecture, this award is presented annually to a graduating student from each of the MArch I and MArch II programs.
		The prize is awarded by the Department of Architecture in recognition of the highest level of academic achievement among students graduating from the postprofessional Master in Architecture (MArch II) program.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /academic/arch/fellowships.html (506 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 (4162 words)

	AllRefer.com - Russell Sturgis (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He practiced architecture until 1880; the buildings he designed include the Flower Hospital in New York City and a chapel and several dormitories at Yale Univ. A leading authority on the history of architecture and art, Sturgis published many articles and gave lectures at universities and museums.
		He was first president (1895–97) of the Fine Arts Federation and president (1889–93) of the Architectural League of New York.
		His writings include European Architecture (1896), A Dictionary of Architecture and Building (3 vol., 1901–2), and History of Architecture (4 vol., 1906–15; Vol.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sturgis.html (228 words)

	Architecture
		Architecture is a judicious blend of art, science and business.
		To study architecture, you have to appear in the entrance examinations of various institutes.
		Architecture is not a stereotype or routine work.
	www.icscareersonline.com /architecture.htm (1583 words)

	Biography of Louis Edouard Laybourne Smith (1880-1965)
		Louis Laybourne Smith was a prominent South Australian architect who established Adelaide's first School of Architecture in 1906 at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries (School of Mines).
		Meantime he fostered his interest in architecture as an articled pupil to Edward Davies (1852-1927) completing his apprenticeship in 1904 and being admitted as an Associate to the South Australian Institute of Architects (S.A.I.A.).
		In addition to his role in architectural education, Laybourne Smith was renowned for his contribution to the profession through various organisations and committees.
	www.unisa.edu.au /arc/Biography (569 words)

	School of Art, ECU, Art History
		Painting, architecture, and sculpture in Italy from 1300-1500.
		Painting, architecture, and sculpture in the Low Countries, England, and France during the seventeenth century.
		Painting, sculpture, architecture, and design and crafts in the United States from colonial times to the present.
	www.ecu.edu /art/ahcour1.htm (734 words)

	Books : San Francisco Architecture: An Illustrated Guide to the Outstanding Buildings, Public Artworks, and Parks in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whether used as the basis for a walking tour or as a reference for students and historians, SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURE is the definitive guide to the natural and urban development of one of the most recognized and visited areas in the world.
		Because of the fire of 1906, the architecture is vastly different neighborhood by neighboorhood and this guide decribes them plainly and with grace.
		The new edition of San Francisco Architecture is everything a portable guide to the built environment should be: organized, accessible, and with enough detail to expand one's sense of time, place, and people.
	www.cellphonegamesdownload.com /1580086748/San_Francisco_Architecture_An_Illustrated_Guide_to_the_Outstanding_Buildings_Public_Artworks_and_Parks_in_the_Bay_Area_of_California.shtml (480 words)

	Berkeley Landmarks :: North Gate Hall
		The University of California’s school of architecture was the first to be established in the western United States.
		When the College of Architecture was established in 1903, John Galen Howard was not only its head but the only teacher until 1906, when William C. Hays joined the faculty as assistant in architecture.
		In January 1906, the architecture department received its own home on the northern edge of the campus, at the intersection of Hearst and Euclid Avenues.
	www.berkeleyheritage.com /berkeley_landmarks/northgate_hall.html (1011 words)

	Concrete Block Machines and Buildings: Bibliography
		Humphrey, Richard L. (1906) Development in The Uses of Cement.
		(1906) The Evolution of the Concrete Block in Residence Construction.
		In Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III, Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, editors, pp.
	www.digitalpresence.com /histarch/concreteblock.html (804 words)

	1906 Post Office -- DeKalb County, Illinois Digitization Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This structure built in the Beaux Arts architectural style featured a lobby with a 30-foot high ceiling and floors laid in terrazo with white marble inlays and polished Vermont marble trim.
		A new post office building was built in August of 1959 and as the community grew another replaced the second structure in the early 1970's.
		The 1906 building's condition had deteriorated over the years and it was finally sold and condemned.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /dekalb/hist-postoffice.html (217 words)

	Architecture
		Williams worked for large architectural firms until he gained sufficient experience in all branches of his profession to open his own office.
		Williams's firm took on projects both large and small, working in a mixture of architectural styles, much of his firm's work was residential.
		He was the first African-American to graduate from the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts and Architecture in 1904.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /resources/diversity/naa/architecture.html (319 words)

	General Libraries Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Architecture and Planning Library, with its extensive collection of current and rare publications plus its collection within a collection--the Alexander Architectural Archive--is now one of the major architectural information centers in the nation.
		The School of Architecture has worked closely with librarians over the past decade to develop the collection and cultivate support from faculty, alumni, and professional groups, all of whom have given generously of their talents, their creations, and their funds.
		Statewide architectural and planning groups, students, scholars, and architectural firms have joined in as well to lend their support--a support that has served to benefit the architectural community at The University of Texas and, in turn, to benefit practicing architects, city planners, preservationists, property owners, and architectural historians throughout the state.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /about/news/newsletter/43 (239 words)

	Greene & Greene: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Following the lead of the chronology of their intertwined personal and professional lives, the monograph begins with how the two brothers were raised to be architects and to practice together.
		they were sent to MIT (then the finest architecture school in America), where their natural artistic skills were combined with an excellent technical grounding, before apprenticing with liberal architects in Boston.
		After establishing their own practice together they quickly allied themselves with the progressive Arts and Craft movement, a movement they were soon to be shaping as much as responding to.
	www.x8a.net /us-reviewed/0714839507.html (946 words)

	Beth y Mike's Gran Viaje: Valparaiso and Viña del Mar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now, the port is still active, the government is there (moved there by Pinochet), and the city has a decent sized commercial district, but seems to be mostly residential.
		The city reminds me a lot of San Francisco - it is right on a bay, is EXTREMELY hilly, and was destroyed by earthquake in 1906, so the architecture is similar.
		We went to another of Pablo Neruda's houses (great views, but Isla Negra was the best of the 3), walked around the "Open Sky Museum", a collection of murals throughout one neighborhood and ate quite a few times.
	mikeandbeth.blogspot.com /2005/03/valparaiso-and-via-del-mar.html (458 words)

	architecture
		Architects Newspaper Comprehensive source of information on the latest projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, current events and cultural developments related to architecture, with an emphasis on the tri-state region.
		NYIT Journal Locator A number of full text architecture digital journals (45) can be viewed from either on or off-campus by using the NYIT Journal Locator.
		Old Westbury Gardens Former Phipps mansion built in 1906 in the style of Charles II, with extensive formal gardens and landscaped grounds.
	iris.nyit.edu /library/internet/subject/architecture/architecture.htm (587 words)

	General Reading
		Papers on history architecture and archaeology in honour of Dr H M Taylor.
		Fernie E C (1988) `Contrasts in methodology and interpretation of medieval ecclesiastical architecture' Archaeol.
		Rickman T (1819) An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation.
	www.york.ac.uk /depts/arch/gsp/buildings/biblio/record.htm (1298 words)

	AIA SF Architecture and the City
		Participants are guaranteed an informal, behind-the-scenes glimpse at Fuseproject, the award-winning studio of industrial designer Yves Béhar; Pfau Architecture, the architecture studio of local modernist Peter Pfau; and Jensen & Macy Architects, the award-winning architecture studio of Mark Jensen and Mark Macy.
		The “Inventioneering Architecture” exhibition features a 131-foot-long platform of an imaginative cross section of the Swiss Alps, imported from Switzerland and created specifically for this event, giving visitors the physical and intellectual opportunity to experience the differences between Swiss architecture pedagogy and American architecture teaching methods.
		As architectural practice is increasingly re-mixed by digital technology and changing client demands, these practitioners seek new ways to develop and perfect their craft by blurring the boundaries between concept, execution, authorship, and form.
	www.aiasf.org /archandcity (2825 words)

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