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  Architecture Museum
Visitors were invited for the first time to get a closer acquaintance with the history of Lithuanian architecture in 1974 after the exposition on the history of Medininkai castle was arranged in a wooden house of the yard of this castle.
The Museum of Architecture in Lithuania was founded in 1968 as a branch of Lithuanian National Museum.
Michael's church of Renaissance-precious architecture was built in 1594-1625 as Leonas Sapiega's family mausoleum and a church of a female Bernardine observant monastery.
www.muziejai.lt /Vilnius/architekturos_muziejus.en.htm   (1068 words)

  
 . : New Course
Its object is to explore the importance that connection in turn gives architecture as an instrument of social leadership and a vivid and enduring form of public disclosure.
The object will be to understand the larger public relevance of architecture and provide a basis for the exploitation of this aspect of its importance in the public argument in favor of significant new architecture and for the protection of the old.
The seminar will focus on and test a thesis about the architecture of the 20th Century and the efforts of that architecture to make sense of the century?s social evolution, as it worked through and then abandoned arguments for the use of public power as a route to social improvement.
www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/604   (576 words)

  
 Undergraduate Catalog, 2002-2004. Architecture
The Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board and satisfy the registration requirements of the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners.
The School of Architecture was established in 1948 as a division of the College of Engineering and became an autonomous school of the University in September 1951.
The portfolio is submitted by continuing architecture students at the beginning of the second semester of the third year, by interior design students at the end of the second semester of the third year, and by transfer students before they register for any design studio beyond Architecture 310K.
www.utexas.edu /student/registrar/catalogs/ug02-04/ch02/ch02a.html   (2624 words)

  
 Crater Lake NP: Historic Resource Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When Mather became director in 1918, he and Albright help formulate the Service's policy statement of that year to the effect that all roads, trails, buildings, and other improvements be carried out with their ultimate harmony with the landscape in mind.
Although it was realized that rustic architecture was not appropriate for all park areas, it did harmonize with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest and was widely used in forest and wilderness parks there.
The blossoming of rustic architecture was encouraged by a thrust toward park development based on long-term planning for the layout and architectural style of park buildings.
www.nps.gov /crla/hrs/hrs10a.htm   (758 words)

  
 Research team   Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Regional Planning
Architectural history research and education in Belgium in the nineteenth century (1830-1914) and th...
The social translation of architectural notions about living in Flanders of the 1960s-1970s.
Architectural historical research and education in Belgium in the nineteenth century (1830-1914)
www.kuleuven.ac.be /research/researchdatabase/researchteam/50000543.htm   (611 words)

  
 MuslimHeritage.com - Topics
Historically, this is the third instance of the use of piers in Muslim architecture, after the Ribat of Sussa (Tunisia 821) and Jusaq Al-Khaqani (Samarra 836).
Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine by: Briggs, M.S. Briggs, M.S. (1924) ‘Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine’, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Moslem Architecture: Its origin and development by: Rivoira, G.T. Rivoira, G.T. (1918) `Moslem Architecture: Its origin and development', translated by Rushforth, G., Oxford University Press.
muslimheritage.com /topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=337   (1163 words)

  
 1918 @ ArtOfTexas.com (Art of Texas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
May 16 — The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress.
July 17 — By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
www.artoftexas.com /encyclopedia/1918   (1862 words)

  
 The New Vision for The New Architecture: Czechoslovakia 1918-1938 by Jaroslav Andel « Book Review « ...
The pages of British architectural magazines and broadsheet journals have been filled with ‘For’ and ‘Against’ opinion forums, as if this were any proper way to ask the question as to what modernism in architecture and design had really achieved.
Firstly, it is not a book about architecture per se, but about how photographers perceived the impact of the new architecture as part of a new vision of the modern world, bursting with new forms of technology, power, and public democracy.
In the 1930s Czechoslovakia was in the forefront of new thinking about architecture, design and the application of new technology, and this book is a wonderful evocation of that period and its many social and cultural achievements.
www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=3039390422   (854 words)

  
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Rekhter, et al Best Current Practice [Page 5] RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets February 1996 A major drawback to the use of private address space is that it may actually reduce an enterprise's flexibility to access the Internet.
Once one commits to using a private address, one is committing to renumber part or all of an enterprise, should one decide to provide IP connectivity between that part (or all of the enterprise) and the Internet.
www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1918.txt   (2569 words)

  
 Architecture Indexes
Use this list of periodical indexes to locate articles on architecture, architectural history, construction, building technology, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban design and planning.
Architectural Index is an annual subject index to 10 U.S. professional architecture, building, and landscape architecture magazines.
Covers 300+ journals from 45 countries on architecture and allied arts, construction, design, landscape, and to a limited extent, planning and urban history.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/indexes.html   (2583 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   (5432 words)

  
 Form Zero Architectural Books & Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Form Zero is a bookstore and gallery in Los Angeles, USA dedicated to a critical examination of architecture and design.
The bookstore presents a collection of highly selective architectural and related publications from domestic and international publishers.
Form Zero serves to present international architectural culture and the discipline's guiding theories from historic perspectives as well as from contemporary positions in their most critical forms.
www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Reference/Links_1918.html   (64 words)

  
 Architecture.com: Event The New Vision for the New Architecture: Czechoslovakia 1918-1938   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Vision for the New Architecture: Czechoslovakia 1918-1938
DESCRIPTION: This exhibition introduces architectural photographs made in collaboration between avant-garde architects and photographers in the 1920s and 30s.
The exhibition comprises 150 photographs, and indicates the leading role that Czechoslovakia played between the wars as one of the leading European countries for the Modern Movement in architecture and photography.
www.architecture.com /go/Events/Events_2156.html   (138 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Samuel D. Albert on Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in ...
This book builds on his two previous works on the region, one devoted to architecture in Austria-Hungary [7] and the second devoted to the emergence of modern architecture in the Central European lands.
In the preface, Moravanszky states that it is not his intention to examine the mundane architecture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: the railroad stations, post offices, and banks which existed in every town and which made western Ukraine familiar to the visitor from Lower Austria, as he put it (p.
These regional visions, though somewhat nationally-based, were not formulated as nationalist visions; it was the failure of historicist architecture to fully and adequately express modernity which furnished the intellectual impetus for these alternative visions.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24727898181281   (1468 words)

  
 RFC 1918 (rfc1918) - Address Allocation for Private Internets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
RFC 1918: There should be a reference to the other non globally routable IP addresses used...
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RFC 1918: Is IP addresses starting with 169.254.0.0 considered in IP address space for...
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 Architecture Exhibitions in the New York City Metropolitan Area - Archive
Architectural models documenting the design process for six projects.
WWII era photographs of plants, landscapes and architecture by the German photographer.
Large scale photographs of architecture in Seoul and Moscow.
www.demel.net /nycarchitecture/archive2000.html   (1343 words)

  
 1918 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 15 — The Post Office Department (later renamed the USPS) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
July 9 — Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101.
September 11 — The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1918   (2693 words)

  
 Untitled Document
“Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1815–1989,” in Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, edited by Richard Frucht (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000): 35-37.
Review of Béla Lajta: ornamento e modernitá, Marco Biraghi, ed.; The Architecture of Historic Hungary, edited by Dora Wiebenson and József Sisa; and Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918, by Ákos Moravánszky, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59 (March 2000): 118-21.
Architecture, by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, in Austrian Studies Newsletter 9 (winter 1997): 12.
www.ar.utexas.edu /Faculty/longf.html   (1337 words)

  
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Against this background, the seminar will focus on and test a thesis about the architecture of the 20th Century and the efforts of that architecture to make sense of the century's social evolution, as it worked through and then abandoned arguments for the use of public power as a route to social improvement.
Students will report critically in class and in papers submitted with their presentations on assigned works of architecture, bringing out the relationship of each building's expression to the over-all "argument" of the 20th century.
Students will be expected to demonstrate in their presentations, papers and take-home final exam a growing capacity to explain the meaning of buildings and present the case their expression makes for what they espouse.
www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/2298/7   (746 words)

  
 Architecture News & Competitions 44 | Dexigner
Organizations use architecture and design to market their products and services, illustrate their commitment to sustainability and/or a culture of design, and attract qualified personnel, giving them a healthy and attractive environment to work in.
The TAKE series bridges topical issues in architectural practice and academia and adds to the growing body of knowledge that will become a permanent architectural reference library.
In 2001 the Prize was re-structured to establish an ongoing journal series exploring issues of contemporary concern to the profession of architecture.
www.dexigner.com /architecture/news-43.html   (961 words)

  
 NZ Architecture Symposium | CBPR | School of Architecture
Schools of Architecture and Design, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington.
The cost of the symposium (including proceedings) will be $50 (incl.
“The Politics of Empire and the Architecture of Identity: Public Architecture in New Zealand 1900-1918".
www.vuw.ac.nz /cbpr/symposium/index.aspx   (266 words)

  
 UTSOA: LAR 388 Course Description: Fall 2005
Landscape Architecture in Texas during the FDR ERA
The objective of this course is a concentrated effort to explore the period of Landscape Architecture from 1918 to 1940 with emphasis on the Great Depression and the recovery programs of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration.
The anticipated result is to produce a documentation of FDR Era projects in Texas which still exist and may be endangered.
www.utexas.edu /architecture/courses/fall2005/detail.php?cid=388mil05f2   (287 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.
Society of Architectural Historians Promotes scholarly research and preservation of significant architectural monuments.
iris.nyit.edu /library/internet/subject/architecture/architecture.htm   (587 words)

  
 HTC at MIT
PhD thesis: "Charity, Architecture and Urban Development in Post-Tridentine Rome: The Hospital of the SS.
PhD thesis: "From the Portfolio to the Diagram: Architectural Discourse and the Transformation of the Discipline of Architecture in America, 1918-1943."
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art is part of the Department of Architecture, within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
architecture.mit.edu /htc/research/degree_phd.html   (1873 words)

  
 Iran Islamic Architecture education
These were: the Conservatory of Music, founded in 1918; the College of National Music, founded in 1949; the College of Decorative Arts, founded in 1960; the College of Dramatic arts, founded in 1964; and Farabi University, founded in 1975.
It serves 1,800 undergraduate and 500 University of Art postgraduate students, about 500 graduating each year; it is served by 82 full-time and more than 170 part-time faculty members from among established artists and specialists in the country.
IAORG website is dedicated to Islamic architecture, and contains illustrated descriptions and reviews of a large number of monuments, mosques, palaces and schools.
www.islamicarchitecture.org /education/ir.iarch.schools.html   (534 words)

  
 Virginia Architecture
Architect John Russell Pope's Tudor-Revival design for prominent financier John Kerr Branch resulted in a 27,000-sqare-foot residence featuring eleven levels; a chapel-like studio; and fireproofing by means of concrete floors and masonry walls.
With its long gallery, great hall, commodious library and dining room on the main floor, the house, completed in 1918, provided ample space for displaying the Branches' extensive collection of European tapestries, textiles, and furnishings.
Pope also designed the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as well as Richmond's Broad Street Station (now the Science Museum of Virginia).
www.virginiaarchitecture.org /vca_history.jsp   (211 words)

  
 ALPHABETICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Architecture In The United States." The American Journal of Science and Arts 17 (January 1830):99-110; and (April 1830):249-273.
Cleveland, H.W.S. "Landscape Architecture Applied to the Arrangement of Towns..." In Cleveland, Landscape Architecture, As Applied to the Wants of the West: with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co., 1873):28-45.
Stoughton, Arthur A. "The Architectural Side of City Planning." Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on City Planning (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1915):121-128.
www.library.cornell.edu /Reps/BIBLIOGR/titleabc.htm   (3670 words)

  
 Years in architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Please DO NOT ADD anything to this list until AFTER it has been added to the relevant year in architecture itself.
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
2004 in architecture - 30 St Mary Axe designed by Norman Foster.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Years-in-architecture   (212 words)

  
 Staff : McCarthy
Formerly: Academic positions at the Department of Architecture, University of Auckland, Schools of Architecture and Design, UNITEC Institute of Technology, and Design Studies, University of Otago.
Current research areas include: Architectural representation (drawing as a medium for theoretical analysis; the interrelationships of writing and drawing), New Zealand architecture (Edmund Anscombe), interior architecture theory (defining interiority).
Membership: President, Wellington Architectural Centre, Executive Committee, Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Advisory Board, Space and Culture, Member, New Zealand Institute of Architects, Member, CLARK (a Wellington drawing collective).
www.vuw.ac.nz /Design/staff/mccarthy.html   (164 words)

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