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		1924 in architecture See also: 1923 in architecture, other events of 1924, 1925 in architecture and the architecture tim...
		1924 in science The year 1924 CE in technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
		Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics At the bobsleigh event was contested, the four man event.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1924.html (592 words)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1922-1925
		The last step was "putting on the architecture." Elevations of the various facades were pinned on the wall individually and shifted about until a satisfying composition resulted, which was then drawn up and built.
		The transition to modern architecture is evident in the variations on the ranch house theme that replace some of the period revival styles (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 170).
		The dominant element in the composition is the Ionic colonnade on a raised porch with freestanding eagles on the entablature.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_009.html (3369 words)

	towards_a_plastic_architecture_1924 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The new architecture is anti-cubic; that is to say, it does not attempt to fit all the functional space cells together into a closed cube, but projects functional space- cells (as well as overhanging surfaces, balconies, etc.) centrifugally from the centre of the cube outwards.
		In this way architecture achieves a more or less floating aspect (in so far as this is possible from the constructional standpoint - this is a problem for the engineer!) which operates, as it were, in opposition to natural gravity.
		In place of symmetry the new architecture offers a balanced relationship of unequal parts; that is to say, of parts that differ from each other by virtue of their functional characteristics as regards position, size, proportion and situation.
	www2.arch.ttu.edu /architectonics/readings/theo_van_doesenburg.htm (1140 words)

	ArtLex on architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They are gigantic prisms unique in world 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.
		These buildings have as their central focus a single architectural composition.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html (2264 words)

	Islamic History and Culture - Art and Architecture in Islam - Architecture of Early Islam (622 - 661)
		Architecture of the early years of Islam (between 622-661) was characterized by simplicity and humbleness.
		Architectural sophistication came about later as intellectual and economic prosperity created a demand for elaborate, but acceptable forms and arts.
		Architecture of that period aimed to fulfill that purpose leading to limited building activities centered on a few mosques scattered in various regions of the Muslim land.
	www.islamic-paths.org /Home/English/History/Art_Arch/Architecture_Early_Islam.htm (1046 words)

	VAN DOESBURG MANIFESTO
		The new architecture is economic; that is to say, it employs its elemental means as effectively and thriftily as possible and squanders neither these means nor the material.
		The new architecture is formless and yet exactly defined; that is to (such as confectioners use) in which it produces the functional surfaces arising out of practical, living demands.
		Compare the various counter constructions in which the elements that architecture consists of surface, line, and mass are placed without constraint in a three-dimensional relationship.
	caad.arch.ethz.ch /teaching/nds/ws96/exercises/nds9606/text/Theo_manifesto.html (1147 words)

	1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
		January 27 - Lenin is buried in a mausoleum in the Red Square.
		May 4 - The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies held in Paris, France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1924 (1875 words)

	The Nation, 12/03/1924 - Engineering or Architecture? by Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a stimulating adventure to open a book on American architecture and find neither those sycophantic appreciations, beautifully illustrated, which form so important a part of the current periodical literature of the subject, nor, on the other hand, those equally one-sided, bitterly pessimistic attacks on all modern work which characterize another type of criticism.
		Mumford has seen deeply into architecture; careful historical study has given him an authoritative background; he has realized that behind that stream of form which makes the "style" of any place or date there is a reason; he has asked the why of form in American architecture.
		...But in the consideration of modern architecture the clarity is complete, and the examination of the effect of industrialism on architecture and on life is entirely convincing, once Mr...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v119i3100_18.htm (844 words)

	Architecture A-L
		Remote and unique architectural gems made inaccessible by political conditions, or which have simply burned down or been allowed to decay, are captured in five hundred twelve plates.
		Architectural details are excellently illustrated with perfect and obvious example photographs or sketches.
		Though the focus of the book is the architecture of wooden churches in Eastern Europe, Buxton grounds his discussion in brief treatments of worldwide log architecture, wooden church architecture in Scandinavia, and the other wood arts and crafts of Eastern Europe.
	www.iabsi.com /gen/public/arch2.htm (2070 words)

	Architecture
		Includes information on the religious history, architecture and art work of the Basilica, as well as a chapter on a Mithraic temple that was discovered there.
		Documents the beginnings of Modernist architecture in Denmark, reproducing plans and photographs of churches, schools, numerous houses, industrial buildings, competition drawings etc., as well as material on the Tuborg brewery.
		The strikingly handsome gravure reproductions are supplemented by detailed historical and architectural information in the brochures.
	www.mcgilvery.com /architecture.html (1426 words)

	1923 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1922 in architecture, other events of 1923, 1924 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
		Chilehaus in Hamburg, designed by Fritz Höger is completed.
		Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (later translated into English as Towards a New Architecture) is published.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1923_in_architecture (85 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 1923–24 catalog announced an architectural curriculum which culminated in a four-year Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree and a pre-professional curriculum in landscape architecture.
		The Master of Architecture degree was established in 1924, and in 1925, Professor David C. Lange took over as department chair.
		The five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree was established in 1956.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /college/units/arch/history.htm (519 words)

	RFC 1924 (rfc1924) - A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses
		RFC 1924: RFC1924 states that 128-bit arithmetic be used.
		RFC 1924: Erratum: Section 4: The address encoded in base85 should be 4(+k&C#VzJ4br&g...
		RFC 1924: Well, it is not exactly the same encoding (RFC 1924 vs. Adobe PostScript ASCII...
	www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc1924.html (1352 words)

	1924 in architecture Definition / 1924 in architecture Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1924 in architecture Definition / 1924 in architecture Research
		[click for more], other events of 1924 Events January January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead.
		January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps),...
	www.elresearch.com /1924_in_architecture (122 words)

	Architecture, Buildings, Landscaping, Rare & Out-of-Print Books
		Described by his American admirer, A. Downing, as 'the most distinguished gardening author of his age', Loudon's books were 'essential reference books in their day and remain an indispensable source for historians of the period.' (Oxford Companion to Gardening) His writing spanned over 40 years beginning with an article in 1803.
		New York, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1923, First edition, folio [41 x 31 cm]; [x], 212 pp, frontis, hundreds of illus from photos, some full-page, many architectural plans, some full-page, orig cloth covers, very worn and stained, tear at lower spine, some leaves are lightly soiled, but internally very good in a poor cover.
		An important work by this fine architectural firm, illustrating in detail 34 country homes, mansions and gardens they designed, many in the Philadelphia area, others in the surrounding states.
	www.horizonbook.com /architecture.html (1308 words)

	:..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.::
		In 1924 he became a lecturer at the same university while at the same time working as a free-lance architect from his own office.
		In 1930 Egli was given the job of reorganizing the educational curriculum at the Architectural Department of GSA for the basis of which he adopted the German system of architectural education.
		This eschews extravagant and monumental features of design and, in his search for the realistic trend in architecture required by a developing country, Egli shows economy in his models particularly in his designs for educational buildings.
	www.archmuseum.org /biyografi.asp?id=6 (789 words)

	Mae M. Ngai \| The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924 \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That law restricted immigration into the United States to 150,000 a year based on quotas, which were to be allotted to countries in the same proportion that the American people traced their origins to those countries, through immigration or the immigration of their forebears.
		This analysis of the Immigration Act of 1924 suggests that immigration law and policy were deeply implicated in a broader racial and ethnic remapping of the nation during the 1920s, a remapping that took place in mutually constituting realms of demography, economics, and law.
		Yet, the racialization of Asian nationalities was consistent with the overarching logic of the language in the Immigration Act of 1924, which, at the formal level, was based on categories of nationality and not of race.
	history.uchicago.edu /faculty/MaeNgai/ngai.html (8816 words)

	Ricola - Company - History and Architecture - History
		It was in 1924 that Emil Richterich bought a small bakery in the picturesque town of Laufen just outside Basel.
		The Bleile bakery specialised in confectionery made from sugar, and produced more than 100 specialties including “Fünfermocken”, a candy something like caramel which at that time cost just 5 Swiss centimes a piece and which was the quintessential boiled sweet for generations of Swiss children.
		Confectionery production was commenced in new premises using a coal-fuelled cooking range, copper pots, a cooling table, screw press and a number of coating drums.
	www.ricola.com /index.cfm?uuid=B61661792B351571E420375B60C1F722 (154 words)

	History of the School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although the Graduate School of Fine Arts dates its founding from 1890, architectural courses were first offered at the University of Pennsylvania in 1868, making Penn's the second oldest architecture program in the United States.
		Lectures in city planning and landscape architecture were added in 1914.
		Iin the Department of Architecture, the mid-50's saw the arrival of structural engineers Robert LeRicolais and August Komendant; architects Romaldo Giurgola, Robert Venturi, Robert Geddes, and the 1924 Penn graduate Louis I. Kahn.
	www.design.upenn.edu /aboutGSFA/history.htm (452 words)

	Architecture
		The architecture of the historic district of NTC was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924).
		Raised in Pomfret, Connecticut, he was 15 years old when he went to work for an architectural firm in new York City.
		He died in 1924 before he really had a chance to see the impact his work had on the architecture community and NTC's history.
	www.quarterdeck.org /book/architecture.htm (764 words)

	Lieber-Meister - The Louis Sullivan Page
		Sullivan was in the right place at the right time: the booming metropolis of Chicago needed rebuilding after the Chicago Fire of 1871.
		The buildings produced by Alder and Sullivan were at the leading edge of American architecture and skyscraper design, and were known for their gorgeous and tasteful ornamentation.
		Sullivan insisted that architecture had to embody the human connection with nature and to democracy, while still accepting the most modern functional needs and materials.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/1469/sullivan.html (1356 words)

	Liturgy and Life:
		The architectural structure is composed of a whole system of symbols which creates a meaningful environment for human persons.
		Despite the impressive spires and domes against the skylines of countless towns and cities, the focus of architecture for Christian worship is always on the interior space.
		Architecture and the art forms within the liturgical environment are powerful players in the drama of liturgical activity for good or for ill. The power of their symbols speak to us even when we do not attend to them fully.
	www.udayton.edu /~study/Liturgy/Session6/reading.html (4766 words)

	Designed for Worship
		After receiving his engineering degree from Vanderbilt in 1924, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania and in France and Italy.
		He received his architectural degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928, at the age of twenty-three.
		Keeble began practicing architecture in Nashville, and in 1929 his association with architect and engineer Francis B. Warfield established the firm of Warfield and Keeble, which existed until 1944.
	www.wnpt.net /worship/architects.html (838 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In his writings, drawings, and architectural designs, Sullivan's poetic genius is apparent, as is his life objective, a rebirth of American democracy through cultural reform.
		The authors, Robert Twombly and Narciso G. Menocal, discuss the social implications of Sullivan's theories of architecture based on nature, with visual proof of his passion in illustrations of his work on paper and in three dimensions.
		A translation of "Etude sur l'inspiration," Sullivan's seminal and heretofore unpublished credo in verse, is further testimony to the architect's vision.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393048233 (447 words)

	Arts and architecture (from Naples) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In these cultures, art and architecture have often been closely connected—for example, storehouses and meetinghouses are often decorated with elaborate carvings—and so they are presented together in this discussion.
		By the simplest definition, architecture is the design of buildings, executed by architects.
		Out of the Arts and Crafts tradition in design, which emphasized simplicity and handmade objects, grew an architecture that was well suited to an emergent middle class of self-made businessmen and their families living in the midwestern United States.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=16156 (748 words)

	PennDesign :: Landscape Architecture
		Initially established in 1924 and later revitalized under the leadership of Professor Ian McHarg in the 1960s, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning is recognized around the world for its pioneering contributions to ecological planning and design.
		The first professional degree program is three years in length and is designed for students with an undergraduate degree in a field other than landscape architecture or architecture.
		The second professional degree is two years in length and is designed for those who already hold an accredited bachelors degree in either landscape architecture or architecture.
	www.design.upenn.edu /new/larp/overview.htm (456 words)

	The Nation, 08/06/1924 - Personality in Architecture by Hansen, Harry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		...that no architectural dictum, or tradition, or superstition, or habit should stand in the way...
		...that form followed function, in fact that "function created or organized its form," and that "a realistic architecture should be evolved based on well-defined utilitarian needs--that all practical demands of utility should be paramount as a basis of planning and design...
		...That American architecture can be better served in developing native ideas than by rebuilding the Parthenon on Western prairies I earnestly believe...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v119i3083_14.htm (917 words)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1919-1922
		VLN: 20th C. Architecture: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (1919-1922) 9 10 11 12 13 14
		Chronological listing of 10 selected architectural works in the San Francisco Bay Area (1919-1922).
		In order to get the prestigious California Street address and preserve two landmark buildings that were headquarters for the Robert Dollar Steamship Lines, this office building/hotel was driven into the middle of the block and provided with shopping arcades that permit circulation through it.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_008.html (2013 words)

	Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art.
		Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto.
		Taken together, they constitute a subjective history of modern architecture; compared with one another, their great diversity of style reveals in many cases the basic differences of attitude and temperament that produced a corresponding divergence in architectural style.
	www.booklounge.com /content/view/full/2414 (551 words)

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