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	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1909-1910
		The Chinese telephone exchange, built in 1912 on Washington Street near Grant, was a major architectural contribution to the rebuilding of the city.
		On the northwest corner of Laurel and Jackson is Maybeck's striking masterpiece, the Roos House (45) (1909).
		The "architecture," therefore, was kept up a couple of stories, out of harm's way, where it would survive countless changes of fashion as the permanent expression of a timeless architectural tradition.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_003.html (2863 words)

	Chicago History Museum \| Architecture and Building History
		Organized according to the city's 77 community areas, this inventory lists architecturally and historically significant pre-1940 structures in Chicago.
		In 1909, the city of Chicago changed its street-numbering system for most of the city.
		Inventories of the drawings and archives of Chicago architects and architectural firms held by the Museum are available in the Research Center.
	www.chicagohs.org /research/resources/architecture (0 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)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1908-1909
		Polk's sensitive remodeling, which consisted of adding wings and altering the top floor, improved the proportions and changed the architectural character from that of a dry, tightly drawn 19th-century town house to a more free and gracious Neoclassical 20th-century manor house.
		The use of brownstone in this 42-room, $15 million structure saved it from total destruction in 1906 when it was gutted, while the rest of the Nob Hill mansions, ersatz stone fashioned from wood, were reduced to ashes along with most of their precious furnishings, libraries, and artwork.
		A mural by Arthur Mathews is in the marble elevator lobby (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 26).
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_002.html (3340 words)

	Skyscrapers In Chicago - The Epitome Of Chicago Architecture
		The history of Chicago architecture began in the decades of 1880s and 1890s with the Chicago School starting the trend of construction utilizing the steel frame and large pieces of glass plate.
		This new and modern type of architecture by Burnhan and Jenney came to be known as the Commercial Form of architecture, but was later renamed by historians as the Chicago School.
		Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and widely considered as a leading expert in modern architecture has worked labeled under the Modern or International style.
	www.romow.com /art-blog/skyscrapers-in-chicago-the-epitome-of-chicago-architecture (819 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 (0 words)

	Architecture of the AYPE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	Modern Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Modern architecture was almost born in late nineteenth-century Chicago, particularly in the buildings of Louis Henry Sullivan.
		The roots of the modern architecture of the later twentieth century are found more in France and Germany than in Wright, however.
		The Seagram Building is the logical conclusion of a set of architectural forces that had their roots in the mid-nineteenth century, but at the same time it is an arbitrary creation of an individual artist.
	www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0040/syl/src1204.html (526 words)

	Arts and Crafts in Midwestern Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For these reasons, the Prairie design was built primarily for the upper-classes, and did not influence vernacular architecture to the extent that the bungalow did.
		Architecturally, it is the result of the effort to bring about harmony between the house and it surroundings, to get as close as possible to nature....
		A bungalow design from the 1909 catalog shows a simple country home with a second story dormer, a common feature that allowed light into the second story despite a long, low roof line.
	www.cl.utoledo.edu /canaday/artsandcrafts/architecture.html (1667 words)

	1909 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
		The number 1909 is a hyperperfect number, because the sum of its proper divisors (23 and 83) is a divisor of n-1 (18*106 = 1908).
		March 10 - Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 signed in Bangkok.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1909 (1659 words)

	Repeat - Planning and its Disconnects: Make No Little Plan
		Long before, the legacy of the innovative architecture of the first Chicago School had been discarded as child's play on the road to the perfect city of the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
		One essential architectural masterpiece, Burnham's 1895 Reliance Building, has been rescued from ruin and fully restored as a hotel and rechristened with the architect's name; still another, Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott store is being retrofitted as a mixed use retail/office complex, and it's long-missing parapet reconstructed.
		When Burnham created his 1909 plan, he was responding to an explosive, anarchic city that since 1880 had added a million and a half inhabitants and quadrupled in acreage-congested, unsanitary, and often-lawless.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/planning/planintro.htm (1232 words)

	Historic Glasgow Architecture - A City Heritage Walk
		Part of the building has been converted into a modernistic visitor centre for architecture and design, the Lighthouse, which is unrecognisable from the old newspaper office I knew as a boy.
		The Royal Exchange is regarded as David Hamilton's architectural masterpiece and dates from 1829, when it was built around an existing mansion house which had been erected by tobacco merchant, William Cunningham in 1778.
		It joined the ranks of Glasgow's lost architecture after a blaze in November 2004 which was so severe that the church could not be saved.
	www.scotcities.com /central.htm (2648 words)

	Holy Trinity Church - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		hen Father Bigley began in 1899 to build the lower church, he likely gave little thought to the architecture which would later be used in the upper church.
		This form evolved in the city of Byzantium, later called Constantinople, where the Church of Sancta Sophia (Holy Wisdom) was dedicated in 537 A.D. to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.
		The outstanding characteristic of Byzantine Architecture is a dome springing upwards from a square connected by four arches and resting in each corner on what is known as a pendentive or pillar.
	www.htcnyc.org /architecture_01.htm (257 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 (2258 words)

	History of Landscape Architecture
		However, includes substantial articles on the landscape architecture and gardening traditions of 12 countries or regions (e.g., 12 page article each on the history of gardening in the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as 173 brief biographies of landscape architects and gardeners (e.g., Roberto Burle-Marx, Thomas Church, Beatrix Farrand, and Hermann Puckler-Muskau).
		California landscape architecture and gardens (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to historical and contemporary California landscape architecture in the UC Berkeley libraries and on the web.
		History of landscape architecture (Univ. of Oregon, Dept. of Landscape Architecture) A selection of digitized color photographs of gardens, agriculture, classical Western landscapes, paradise gardens, Islamic, Spanish, Moghul, medieval gardens, 18th and 19th century America.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/histland.html (3958 words)

	Architecture - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress ...
		Architecture - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
		The architectural richness of the Russian Empire reflected its long history and the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity of its people.
		This madrasa, constructed 1619-1636 and in essence a Muslim theological academy and school, is part of the complex of mosques and madrasas found in Registan, the most sacred precinct of old Samarkand.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/empire/architecture.html (1383 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Carrere and Hastings
		Hastings considered later architectural embellishments to be perversions, and generally insisted on returning to the earlier Renaissance models.
		The country houses were a part of their practice in which Carrère and Hastings attained a dominant position, achieving great success and influence, primarily in their insistence on integrating the house into the natural surroundings and creating a multi-faceted country existence for their wealthy clients.
		Another of Hastings' contributions to architecture was to separate the exterior surface of a building from the basic construction.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-CarrereHastings.htm (3434 words)

	Architecture and Modernism by Alain de Botton
		To place a Classical statue atop a house was as absurd as to add one to a plane, he noted, but at least by crashing in response to this addition, the plane had the advantage of rendering its absurdity starkly manifest.
		As the builders finished their work, the Savoye family had reason to feel confident that in the house he had designed for them, these aspirations, at least, would be consummately met.
		Governed by an ethos conceived by engineers, Modernism claimed to have supplied a definitive answer to the question of beauty in architecture: the point of a house was not to be beautiful but to function well.
	www.calitreview.com /Essays/architecture_5035.htm (2835 words)

	Digital Librarian: Architecture and Historic Preservation
		Among the subjects are the Grand Hôtel Gauquié in Oostduinkerke (demolished in November 2000), Le Valdor, a hospital in Liege and "Le Hasard", a coal mine in Cheratte.
		Architecture Links on the Web is an extensive categorized list of more than 2000 websites from around the world.
		Australian Architecture - 78 examples of twentieth century architecture in Melbourne, Victoria, from the turn of the century to 1980.
	www.digital-librarian.com /architecture.html (5453 words)

	Architecture, Interior Design, Period Style
		Dispelling the conventional wisdom that French Gothic architectural flourishes were born of despair or gloom, Bridaham reveals the whimsical nature of these creations and the ingenious artisans who made them.
		Reprint of rare 1909 catalog features houses ranging from simple three-room bungalows to elaborate 10- and 12-room structures with sitting rooms, libraries, parlors, and wraparound porches.
		A well-known architectural historian explores the bungalow both as an art form and an architectural document reflecting middle-class life in early 20th-century America.
	store.doverpublications.com /by-subject-architecture--interior-design--period-style.html (0 words)

	GoChicago.com - The Official Chicago & Illinois Tourist Office Website
		Frank Lloyd Wright - The Prarie Style of architecture emerged in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th century.
		Frank Gehry - The beginning of the new millennium has brought noteworthy architecture by Frank Gehry to Chicago, including the centerpiece of Millennium Park, the steel Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the BP Bridge.
		Chicago Architecture Foundation/ArchiCenter - The CAF is the foremost expert on Chicago architecture, offering more than 70 different tours—on foot, by bus, or on a boat cruise down the Chicago River.
	www.gochicago.com /architecture (923 words)

	Santa Fe Unlimited \| The Historic Adobe Architecture of Santa Fe, New Mexico
		In 1909, when the New Mexico state legislature established the Museum of New Mexico, the Palace of the Governors became a state history museum.
		This extraordinary example of adobe architecture was designated a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1960 and an American Treasure in 1999.
		This building is considered by many to be the jewel in the crown of the newer adobe architecture in the downtown area.Its Pueblo Revival style clearly set the standard for historic preservation in Santa Fe.
	architecture-sf2.nm-unlimited.net (1178 words)

	Gymnasium (1909) [Architecture of the University of Oregon]
		Gymnasium (1909) [Architecture of the University of Oregon]
		The Men's Gymnasium of 1909 was designed by John Hunzicker, a prolific Eugene architect, who also designed the Eugene Hotel.
		The gymnasium, a wooden structure, existed where Columbia Hall now stands.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /guides/architecture/oregon/gym1909.html (167 words)

	3D Spatial Models of Great Buildings - Great Buildings Online
		Hundreds of free 3D walkthough architectural computer models are available right here at the Great Buildings Online web site, plus links to the free DesignWorkshop® Lite architectural 3D walkthrough software used to view them, for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000 and Power Macintosh.
		Built with DesignWorkshop®, these live 3D walkthrough models are all free for your own personal architectural enjoyment, experience, and understanding.
		Rockefeller Center, by Raymond Hood, at New York, New York, 1932 to 1940.
	www.greatbuildings.com /types/models/spatial_models.html (1344 words)

	Architecture \| In Photos dot org
		The architecture of buildings and landscapes fascinates me because of the lines and height and life that surrounds buildings and the countryside.
		Rolling hills of fields and hedgerows are so pleasing to the eye and a wonder of nature.
		Tagged: Architecture, Black and White, Canon 20D, construction, Cork, fountain, Grand Parade, Ireland, irishblogs, photos, Sigma 10 20, Street and Urban
	inphotos.org /category/architecture (0 words)

	Italian Futurist Architecture 1909/1944
		The architectural conception of Futurism can be summarised in two expressive terms that marked the arrival of Futurist aesthetics: lyricism and dynamism.
		Futurist architecture is therefore movement materialising in space.
		That is why Futurist architecture must not be considered as simply a new development that denotes the evolution of architectural aesthetics towards some further merely stylistic readaptation.
	www.rebel.net /~futurist/indiceframe.htm (345 words)

	Modern Architecture - MSN Encarta
		Great books about your topic, Modern Architecture, selected by Encarta editors
		English designer William Morris, who led the Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore integrity to both architecture and the decorative arts.
		Mackintosh's influence spread across the European continent to Vienna, Austria, where architects Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffman and painter Gustav Klimt formed a group known as the Vienna Secession after they had seceded from the tradition-bound Viennese Academy of Fine Arts.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595616_2/Modern_Architecture.html (2268 words)

	SU School of Architecture - International Programs - Undergraduate Program (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The School of Architecture, in conjunction with the University's Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA), encourages students to spend a semester or summer in Florence, Italy.
		You take required design studios and professional architecture electives and choose from a number of arts and sciences and Italian language and literature courses.
		Required of students who were in Florence for the fall semester and are continuing for a second semester.
	mirror.syr.edu /international/barch.html (579 words)

	Architecture and Planning in mid-19th-century Paris
		Architectural viewpoints in mid-19th-century France: Neoclassicism and Eclecticism: The French Revolution of 1789 and the rise of Napoleon.
		Ecole architecture stands for an educational method and a design philosophy.
		The problem of color in architecture: Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867) proposes polychromy based on investigations of Greek temples in Sicily.
	www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu /courses/arch170/past/SP2000/4-6-00.html (449 words)

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