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	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1910-1912
		One of the Bay Area's greatest architectural monuments, this church is Maybeck's masterpiece, showing his ability to combine such unrelated styles as Gothic and Oriental with an admixture of Romanesque and Craftsman.
		His contributions to domestic design are outstanding and his efforts in architectural education noteworthy; but it is the Christian Science church, with its masterly handling of space, structure, color and light, that wins immediate admiration from lay and professional viewers.
		His lack of preconceived architectural solutions to the problems he faced coupled with his complete domination of every detail of the basic structure, mechanical systems, and furnishings of the church helped create a building noteworthy in the history of American architecture (Cardwell 1977: 122-30).
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_004.html (6387 words)

	Georgia Tech CoA > History of the College of Architecture
		Architectural education was largely a product of local concerns in Atlanta, the State of Georgia and the South, corresponding to the mission of the Georgia School of Technology.
		The expanded scope and professional orientation of architecture was a mirror of the expanding mission for the Georgia Institute of Technology and its objective for a national, as well as international, reputation in professional design education.
		What has emerged is a new vision of the College of Architecture, replete with major opportunities in the development of new paradigms of design pedagogy and practice; in the emphasis upon the nature of world cities and their challenges; and in the relationship between technology and the arts.
	www.coa.gatech.edu /about_us/history.php (1016 words)

	Belarusian Architecture
		The history of Belarusian architecture is the history of the development of Belarusians as a nation in the middle of Europe - a nation experiencing numerous invasions and wars, absorbing and developing European ideas and philosophies, building socialism, capitalism, and still struggling to its better future.
		The further development of Belarusian architecture was happening in times when Belarusian, Lithuanian and partly other lands have formed a powerful commonwealth state - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		As for the monuments of cult architecture it was mainly within Belarusian Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles.
	www.belarusguide.com /culture1/visual_arts/Architecture.html (3995 words)

	MDA-DEVELOPMENT
		Historically, architecture in Japan was influenced by Chinese architecture, although the differences between the two are many.
		Also, Chinese architecture was based on a lifestyle that included the use of chairs, while in Japan people customarily sat on the floor (a custom that began to change in the Meiji period [1868—1912]).
		Elements of residential architecture can be seen in the main building of the Izumo Shrine in Shimane Prefecture, as evidenced by columns set directly into the ground and elevated floors.
	www.mda-development.com /Japanese_Architecture.html (1314 words)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1912-1913
		The exigencies of hillside sites encouraged a remarkable freedom in plan and massing that, when combined with fine traditional detail as in Coxhead's work, produced houses that were truly original without self-consciously making a great point of it (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 99; Wiley 2000: 278).
		Founded in 1912, it was designated San Francisco Historical Landmark No. 149 in June of 1982 (personal observation).
		An intriguing play on the half-timber, with some features (the pulpit-like corner balcony with quatrefoils and the half-timber supergraphics) that are architectural puns (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 173).
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_005.html (856 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1912 in art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The art of collage was initiated in 1912 when Picasso pasted a section of commercially printed oilcloth to his cubist painting,...
		He was professor of architecture and fine arts at the Univ. of Michigan (1912-19) and of art and architecture at the Univ. of Virginia (1919-23) and was in charge of the fine arts department, New York Univ....
		Liberating American communications: foreign ownership regulations from the Radio Act of 1912 to the Radio Act of 1927.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=1912+in+art (925 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)

	New York Architecture Images- Farley Post Office
		The original front half was built in 1912 and opened for postal business in 1914; the building was doubled in 1934 where it backs up to Ninth Avenue.
		Childs had plenty of company: a decade ago, the architectural mainstream was dominated by architects who defended buildings like Worldwide Plaza as thoughtful responses to Modernism's worn-out planning strategies and as designs that were more respectful of a city's urban history.
		Architecture is the art of balancing values: economic, aesthetic, public, private.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /MID/MID133.htm (3248 words)

	Architecture
		Netherlands Architecture Institute - cultural institution open to the general public that concerns itself in a variety of ways with architecture, urban design, and spatial planning.
		Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture - conference on megaform as urban landscape, June 21-23, 1998.
		Architectural Watercolour Renderings - Archi-Vision Studio, ASAI award winner, provides high quality, architectural renderings to architects, developers and designers, with a specialty in watercolor.
	www.partyguideonline.com /cultures/arts/architecture.html (561 words)

	Arts and Crafts in Midwestern Architecture
		Arts and Crafts architecture would never have succeeded as a design concept if it had not also met the changing needs of society.
		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....
	www.cl.utoledo.edu /canaday/artsandcrafts/architecture.html (1667 words)

	phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Chinese influences on the japanese architeture.
		Also, Chinese architecture was based on a lifestyle that included the use of chairs, while in Japan people customarily sat on the floor (a custom that began to change in the Meiji period (1868-1912).
		Modern architectural techniques were introduced into Japan with the launch of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
		A redirecting of architectural priorities away from unmitigated commercialization was led by Isozaki Arata, who as a young man had worked under Tange.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=836&t=836 (1806 words)

	Amer. Landscape and Arch. Design: C. D. Lay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The playground in a large city, where the congestion is great, must provide facilities for the organized play of many children; organized play, because only by organization can a large number of children be amused in a small place.
		In this country where all is new the parks were created abruptly because it felt that some sight of rural scenery was necessary for dwellers in a large city.
		His photographs of New York City parks, taken in 1912, reveal his concern for maintaining and creating spaces that were appropriate and useful to an urban population.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Northern_Great_Plains/http@@/lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/cdlay.html (369 words)

	Architecture
		The School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis was founded in 1910, though its origins date back at least eight years earlier, when the Department of Architecture was established as a part of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
		The awards recognize architecture graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to both the practice of architecture and the School.
		In recent years, Architecture has joined with the School of Art, Gallery of Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts and Sciences and Art and Architecture Library as part of the new Sam Fox Arts Center, a campus-wide umbrella organization for the study and promotion of visual culture.
	news-info.wustl.edu /cat/page/normal/191.html (1164 words)

	Japanese Architecture (Buddhist architecture, Shinto architecture, design concept, modern architecture)
		After the influence of the Meiji period from 1868-1912, stone and brick was brought in from Western architectural influences.
		Well-preserved, Himeji Castle's traditional wooden architecture, stone walls and white-plastered walls are in their original forms since it was never destroyed as a result of war.
		Architecture in Japan with Buddhist influences came from Korea and China in the 6th century.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/architecture.htm (1516 words)

	Architecture - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress ...
		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.
		Originally founded in 1673 as a frontier stockade, by the time this photo was taken in 1912, the town was a center for sandstone mining and processing and had two substantial stone church buildings, including a convent with a school.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/empire/architecture.html (1383 words)

	Trans-Siberian railway - Cities and towns - Eastern Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Architecture and remarkables: Kazanskiy cathedral (1832), building of former synagogue (1907), building of former female gymnasium (was founded in 1912, now pedagogical school), former House of social assembly (now Dramatic theatre) atc.
		Architectural monuments: Veil church (1785-95, was restored in 1977-78), Annunciation church (1804-12) etc. Monuments of Siberian architecture kept: former mansions of merchants Gadalovs, of merchant-bibliophile Yudin (the beginning of the 20 c.).
		Architecture and remarkables: The olded in Eastern Siberia Sudarium church (1706-10; the belltower 1758-62 was built at the place of the porch, architect M. Dolgikh), Epiphany cathedral (1718-31), Sign monastery (was founded in 1689) with church of Sign (1757-62), Trinity church (1763-78) an others.
	www.transsib.ru /Eng/city-vsib.htm (4211 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)

	City of Moscow
		Located at 412 East 3rd Street, the former Moscow High School, built in 1912, is a three-story, 30,000 square foot building located within an historic residential neighborhood, not far from the City's commercial core.
		It is an excellent example of classical style architecture built during the Progressive School Era, with classic details in brick and white terra cotta that are unique to the area.
		The 1912 Center was purchased by the City of Moscow in 1997 from funds donated entirely by private citizens.
	www.moscow.id.us /PR/1912/index.asp (570 words)

	Charles + Ray Eames / Design Museum Collection : Product Designers (1907-1978 + 1912-1988) - Design/Designer Information
		Born in Sacramento, Calfiornia in 1912 as Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, Ray came from a close, creative family.
		Her father was a theatre manager-turned-insurance salesman and both parents encouraged her love of art, film and dance.
		1912 Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, nicknamed Ray, is born in Sacramento California.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/charles-ray-eames (1986 words)

	:..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.::
		The book provides architectural details, in particular those such as blueprints, elevation and interior layout of the constructions, examples of pictures and statues grouped according to each building, as well as a map showing the place of each within the city.
		Sedat Cetintas' drawings of Ottoman buildings in Bursa was published in two volumes under the titles "Turkish Architectural Monuments in Bursa from the Early Ottoman Period" and "Turkish Architectural Monuments in Bursa from the Ottoman Period : the Complexes of Murad I and Bayezid I" respectively.
		Thus it gives historians of architecture the opportunity to fill these spaces which are left empty in mere plans and reliefs of buildings.
	www.archmuseum.org /g_sahaf.asp (2492 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)

	A Special Gleaner Feature on Pieces of the Past - Ward Theatre - 1912 -The first 500 years in Jamaica
		The Theatre's December 1912 opening was attended by hundreds who witnessed the presentation of, to quote Altamont Da Costa, then a Trustee and Chairman of the Theatre Committee, "a structure so magnificent in appearance, so spacious in its proportions, (and) so artistically finished...."
		Made of concrete and steel, it is a sturdy triumph of tropical architecture able to maintain an air of formality while answering the need for practicality in ventilation and acoustics.
		A portrait of Colonel Ward, commissioned in 1912, hangs in the Theatre foyer.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0010.html (1321 words)

	Japanese Arts - Architecture (English)
		An open air museum of modern Japanese architecture from the Meiji period (1868-1912).
		An introduction to the Ise Shrine and the basis of it's architecture.
		A guide to some of the architecture of Kyoto, which is famous for its beauty.
	www.nihongo.org /english/arts/architecture (137 words)

	Bauhaus Architecture
		This architectural style is so prevalent in Tel Aviv that it almost seems as though it were a local style, but it is not.
		Bauhaus architecture, whose founding father was Walter Gropius, developed in Germany in the 1920s and later in the U.S., in the 1930s.
		Bauhaus architecture was concerned with the social aspects of design and with the creation of a new form of social housing for workers.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/Architecture/Bauhaus.html (1484 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1912 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
		May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
		October 16 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1912.htm (2061 words)

	BSP Gallery Bookshop Architecture books
		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.
		After 1912, when Griffin won an international competition to design the new Australian capital city of Canberra, he did more and more of his work abroad, finally moving permanently to Australia.
		Recording the architectural casualties suffered during the whole period of air bombardment 1940-45 profusely illus.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /archit.htm (3031 words)

	Penn State Libraries : Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library : Guide for Undergraduate Architecture Students
		Many buildings and even architects and architectural firms may be known by multiple names.
		In the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, journals are shelved separately and arranged by call number.
		Surveys discuss architecture over broad periods of time and can be helpful in understanding how buildings fit into other historical developments.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /architecture/archugrad.html (1139 words)

	ARCHITECTURE A harmonious coexistence of tradition and innovation
		Also, Chinese architecture was based on a lifestyle that included the use of chairs, while in Japan people customarily sat on the floor (a custom that began to change in the Meiji period [1868-1912]).
		Modern architectural techniques were introduced into Japan with the launch of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
		He has taken several international prizes such as the Pritzker Architecture Prize, given by the Hyatt Foundation in 1995, and the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1997.
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /jicc/spotarchitecture.htm (1760 words)

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		Architecture courses were first introduced into the curriculum at the University of Minnesota as early as 1874 within the College of Mechanic Arts.
		In 1915, the College of Engineering and Architecture was established and in 1925, the department of architecture was raised to the status of a school.
		In 1965, a five year program in landscape architecture was established, and one year later, the school was renamed Architecture and Landscape Architecture to more fully describe the school's curriculum.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/uarc00919.xml (300 words)

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