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  Welcome to ACSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With the advent of "modern" architecture in Europe, the growing fame of the Chicago skyscraper idiom, and Frank Lloyd Wright's "Prairie School" architecture, intense pressures for change began to build in architectural education.
Like all emerging disciplines, architectural education grew up under very different roofs on different campuses, usually depending on the nature of other colleges already established at the time the decision was made to offer architecture programs.
As the architectural curriculum expanded beyond the art of rendering to include utilitarian subjects such as mechanical equipment and structural analysis, the standard four-year program began to bulge at the seams.
www.acsa-arch.org /architecturalEd.html   (1704 words)

  
 Architecture, Domestic
Architectural heritage : inventory and documentation methods in Europe : proceedings, Europeancolloquy organised by the Council of Europe and the FrenchMinistry for Education and Culture, Direction du patrimoine,Nantes, 28-31 October 1992.
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early Republic.
Houses of the Morea : vernacular architecture of the northwest peloponnesos (1205-1955) = Spitia tou Morea :paradosiake architektonike tes voreiodytikes peloponnesou(1205-1955)
www.alternativehomebuilding.com /Sjct7.html   (1067 words)

  
 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)

  
 History of the School of Architecture - Bibliography
Architecture Department : "the Ark", Northgate Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Alameda County, California : A Historic Structure Report, August 1979, for Office of the Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley.
Architecture, Kenneth Cardwell Assistant Professor of, and Emeritus William C. Hays Professor of Architecture
En Charette/on deadling: an architectural history of North Gate Hall, University of California, Berkeley, the Graduate School of Journalism.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/ACH/Biblio.html   (715 words)

  
 Papers-Twentieth-century Vernacular Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Amos Rapoport (1969), who defined it as "unworthy" in terms of architecture, stated that it is the architecture of traditional societies which, though produced by specialists, builders by trade, and artisans, is subject to formal models, in both expression and support of a common culture, and to local construction techniques.
Vernacular architecture therefore contrasts with "high-style" architecture (A. Rapoport), and the architecture of architects (B. Rudofsky).
Modern vernacular architecture is at the centre of the work of many 20th century architects, serving as the ideal model for new architecture.
www.icomos.org /ciav/2001/paper-.html.en   (10607 words)

  
 Modernism
From 1940 he designed a number of gardens experimenting with the juxtaposition of stone retaining walls and horizontal planes, with water in pools channels, and artificial waterfalls.
In the 1960s and 1970s some examples of modern architecture and landscape architecture had lost their appeal as the forms were being recycled in uninteresting ways.
Garden design and related scholarly activity became avant-garde, and the term green architecture was used as a substitute name for gardens and the landscape (the term green architecture currently relates to environmentally sound architecture).
architecture.arizona.edu /landscape/courses/lar542/modernism.htm   (6403 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek New Books Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.
Winfried Nerdinger is director of the museum of architecture of the Technical University of Munich and heads the architecture department at the Gallery of Modern Art.
Architectural modernism was revolutionary when it first appeared in the 1920s, and its innovation showed the world just what twentieth-century design could bring.
www.architectureweek.com /new_books.html   (11570 words)

  
 Architecture
This source covers the architecture of the British Isles before 1550 A.D. Source includes masons, carpenters, carvers, and others who were actually involved in the construction of buildings.
The main focus of the source is architecture because the architecture of the Middle Ages had such a large impact on modern architecture.
The AAF is an educational organization whose goal is to raise awareness of the importance of architecture in daily life.
www.spsu.edu /library/bibs/architecture.html   (3156 words)

  
 Chinese architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
As early as the neolithic period, a basic principle of Chinese architecture was already established, wherein columns spaced at intervals, rather than walls, provided the support for the roof.
Through the T’ang and Sung dynasties, Chinese architecture retained the basic characteristics already developed in the Han, although there was a greater technical mastery and a tendency toward rich adornment and complexity of the system of bracketing.
Though little survives of the wooden structures, our knowledge of their appearance comes from detailed representations in painted scrolls, especially by the Li school of artists in the T’ang period and their followers (see Chinese art).
www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chines-arc.html   (954 words)

  
 1940 article - 1940 1937 1938 1939 1941 1942 1943 Decades 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
November 7 - In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion (it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940 as the third-longest suspension bridge in the world).
1940 article - 1940 definition - what means 1940
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1940   (1986 words)

  
 American Architecture - Twentieth Century - 1940 to 1949 - Great Buildings Online
Breuer House I, by Marcel Breuer, at New Canaan, Connecticut, 1948.
Chamberlain Cottage, by Marcel Breuer, at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1940.
Church in Columbus, by Eliel Saarinen, at Columbus, Indiana, 1940.
www.greatbuildings.com /types/usa/usa_1940-1949.html   (472 words)

  
 Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Architecture of Washington D.C. The Architecture of Washington D.C. web site is "a dissertation research site on how political power and democracy are expressed in the United States capital" conducted and presented by Daniel Frydman.
The purpose of the archive is to document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world.
Founded in 1940, the Society encourages scholarly research in the field and promotes the preservation of significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage." Also available online is the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
www.jsu.edu /dept/library/graphic/architec.htm   (5869 words)

  
 Index of Architecture Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
That all three branches of government, not to mention the state bureaucracy initially, were housed under one roof meant that the doctrine of the separation of powers had to be "worked out" in close quarters, often in revealing ways.
At the nexus of architectural studies and political science, this book is about the interaction of architecture and politics in America's state capitols.
Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters.
www.familyhaven.com /architecture/architecture17/architecture1719.html   (1925 words)

  
 Books on North Carolina Architecture
Through the mid-twentieth century, a number of important articles on the state's historic architecture were published by Louise Hall of Duke University, John Allcott of the University of North Carolina, and Lawrence Wodehouse of North Carolina State University.
The authors of the local survey publications have generally been the consulting architectural historians who conducted the field surveys and research in the various counties and municipalities.
Stanly County: The Architectural Legacy of a Rural North Carolina County.
www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us /bibliog.htm   (2775 words)

  
 American History - Decade 1940 - 1949
In 1949, three times as many college degrees were conferred as in 1940.
n architecture, nonessentials were eliminated, and simplicity became the key element.
Richard Wright completed Native Son in 1940 and Black Boy in 1945, earning acclaim, but government persecution over his communist affiliation sent him to Paris in 1945.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade40.html   (3138 words)

  
 James Rose Bibliography
In this article Rose compares architecture, sculpture and landscape architecture; they are similar because all are based on space relations, yet landscape architecture is unique in that its elements are dynamic.
Cardasis discusses Rose's role as a pioneer of modern landscape architecture in the context of modern art and architecture.
This is essentially a photo essay comparing the James Rose residence in Ridgewood, New Jersey with a Japanese house built in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
www.jamesrosecenter.org /jmsrose/biblio/biblio.html   (1320 words)

  
 1940   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
November 5 - U.S. presidential election 1940 : Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' first third-term president.
November 7 - In Washington the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm a mere months after the bridge's completion (it opened traffic on July 1 1940 as the third-longest suspension bridge in the world).
November 11 - World War II : Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
www.freeglossary.com /1940   (2293 words)

  
 WTC: put the loss of life in NYC in context of Birmingham/Coventry 1940. - Architecture Forum
WTC: put the loss of life in NYC in context of Birmingham/Coventry 1940.
On the night of 19-20 November 1940 1,353 were killed in Birmingham; in the more notorious Coventry raid five days earlier, 554 were killed.
Re: WTC: put the loss of life in NYC in context of Birmingham/Coventry 1940.
www.designcommunity.com /discussion/19694.html   (186 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 by Marc Treib
The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on this vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture.
With over two hundred illustrations in ten essays by noted historians and theorists from around the world, The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape architecture during an epoch when geographic limits became less important than a sense of world development and an international community of values and design ideas.
He is the author of Space Calculated in Seconds, and the editor of numerous volumes including Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, and An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0812236238   (418 words)

  
 Folk Architecture
Folk architecture is a combination of traditional and personal sources that is indicative of dude ranches architecture that we may see today.
The design process is informal, and regular architectural plans are not part of the scenario.
The valley ranch located in Park County is a great example of this sort of personal architecture and use of materials from the area.
digital.uwyo.edu /webarchive/trgrants/2003/ranch/Thomas/folk.htm   (433 words)

  
 Storefront for Art and Architecture | Films
Lebbeus Woods (1940) studied architecture at the University of Illinois and engineering at Purdue University.
His commitment to the theoretical possibilities of architecture has allowed Woods to position his work at the intersection of visual art, philosophy, design, urban planning, and political science.
The author of nine monographs, his recent books include Anarchitecture: Architecture is a political Act (Academy Editions, 1992), Radical Reconstruction (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997/2000), and The Storm and The Fall (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004).
www.storefrontnews.org /events/dialogues.html   (624 words)

  
 The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 | Treib, Marc, Editor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Following the end of World War II, the primary tasks for many countries were land clearance, reformation, and reconstruction, as well as the reestablishment of functioning infrastructures.
These social and environmental concerns, with parallel developments in the fine arts, fostered many of the century's most consequential developments in landscape design and architecture, and set the course that we still follow to a large degree today.
Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley.
www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/13781.html   (231 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1940: Architecture
MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1940: Architecture
In any serious survey of architecture in 1940, the United States must assume a position of unprecedented importance.
Not since the heyday of Chicago office-building construction in the '80s and the "prairie houses" of Frank Lloyd Wright in the early years of the century has this country produced...
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501714/1940_Architecture.html   (166 words)

  
 Amazon.com: North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890-1940 (Suburban Domestic Architecture Series) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope by Steven McLeod Bedford
For any reader interested in the pinnacle of American domestic architecture, this is a volume you can not do without.
Their collaboration produced some of the finest examples of American residential architecture of the 20th century.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0926494260?v=glance   (721 words)

  
 1940 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1940_in_architecture.htm   (67 words)

  
 ARHA355 - Modern Architecture Between the World Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This seminar explores the development of the modern movement in architecture in Europe and the United States between World War I and World War II.
Emphasis is on the relationship of architectural culture to historical conditions during this era.
Preference for enrollment given to departmental majors, especially those in history of art or in architecture.
www.wesleyan.edu /wesmaps/course0001/arha355s.htm   (237 words)

  
 Miami, Florida USA 2004 Modern architecture with a 1940's French chandelier
Miami, Florida USA 2004 Modern architecture with a 1940's French chandelier
Oppenheim has garnered praise for creating a cool, almost monastic design esthetic that is in stark contrast to Miami's previous architectural excesses, including Latin pop, retro Art Deco and Spanish colonial.
Oppenheim calls "quaint Mediterranean villas," a popular Miami style, his version of modernism is almost always white, with touches of color and texture coming from exotic tropical hardwoods, towering palms and the skimpy bikinis on beautiful people lounging poolside.
www.users.cloud9.net /~bradmcc/GO/CHAD.html   (165 words)

  
 Oroville Mercury Register - Local   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Remodels of existing structures would incorporate some features to reduce the incompatibility with the historic theme in the district.
Preferred architectural styles for non-residential structures would be turn-of-the century designs that feature a storefront appearance, roof lines with detailed cornices and recessed entrances flanked by large windows on the first floor.
The preferred architecture for residential buildings would reflect Victorian, Craftsman, Bungalow and other styles that have similar roof lines and features.
www.orovillemr.com /Stories/0,1413,157~26686~2908158,00.html   (676 words)

  
 Frances Loeb Library: Resources: Pathfinders: Historic Preservation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1945-present)
Architecture sourcebook: a guide to resources on the practice of architecture.
Second Lives: a survey of architectural artifact collections in the United States.
www.gsd.harvard.edu /library/subjects/preservation.html   (201 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title.
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www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812236238   (167 words)

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