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  Architecture of the World - Twentieth Century, from 1900 to 1949 - Great Buildings Online
Eames House, by Charles Eames, at Pacific Palisades, California, 1945 to 1949.
Hill House, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, at Helensburgh, Scotland, 1902 to 1903.
Ralph Johnson House, by Harwell Hamilton Harris, at Los Angeles, California, 1949 to 1951.
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 Flickr: 1949 >>> Architecture in New China
Since the Communists swept to power in 1949, the austere and utilitarian ethics of modernism and international socialism combined to give Chinese cities an altogether different flavour.
To a certain extent, this trend still prevails today in much of China, though economic liberalisation and the influx of foreign capital to the bigger cities has lead to soaring skylines of glass and steel that match anywhere in the world.
Any shot which clearly showcases architectural details, whole buildings and urban space, as long it was built in the years after 1949.
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 ArchitectureWeek - Culture - People and Places - 2007.0530
Embedded into the new articles are critical principles concerned with preserving the historical and ongoing importance of all of the foundation's key entities: the National Historic Landmarks Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona; Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture; the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; and the Taliesin Fellowship.
Other recent changes include an increase in the number of public trustees; the recruitment of Victor Sidy as the new dean for the School of Architecture; a new strategic plan for the school; the appointment of Phil Allsopp, RIBA, as president and CEO last year; and management reorganization.
The San Diego office of Carrier Johnson provided architectural services; Frank Wolden was the firm's design principal on the project.
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  1949 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Ford House in (A Midwest state in north-central United States) Illinois designed by (additional info and facts about Bruce Goff) Bruce Goff.
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 Architecture: The Humanistic View (The Nation, November 5, 1949)
Architecture: The Humanistic View (The Nation, November 5, 1949)
Hudnut in these piercing yet gentle essays takes architecture away front the stylists, the propagandists, the technologists, the machine-worshipers, and gives it back to the people, to whom it rightly belongs.
For he sees architecture not as technology and science, not as economics and sociology, but as an aft and a profession using all, those disciplines as tools for the better service and expression of the human spirit.
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 AllRefer.com - Tudor style (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
Tudor style, descriptive of the English architecture and decoration of the first half of the 16th cent., prevailing during the reigns (1485–1558) of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I. It is the first of the transitional styles between Gothic Perpendicular and Palladian architecture, the other two being Elizabethan and Jacobean.
The rise of new trading families to wealth and the enrichment of court favorites by Henry VIII with lands and riches derived from his suppression of monasteries resulted in the building of many manor houses.
See J. Harvey, Introduction to Tudor Architecture (1949) and J. Lees-Milne, Tudor Renaissance (1951)
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Ford House in Illinois designed by Bruce Goff.
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 Huangshan tours, Huangshan travel, Huangshan tirps
The gardens embody the harmonious principles of Chinese garden construction which dictate that gardens should attempt to create a microcosm of the universe in a confined space.
Zhouzhuang is well known for its beautiful environment and simple architecture well preserved for over 900 years.
The majority of the town's residences were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and nearly 100 classic courtyards and 60 carved-brick archways are still in use.
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 Architecture in Downtown Fort Worth - Architecturally Significant Buildings
The John G. Flowers Award is given for the best promotion of architecture through the media.
Halbach-Dietz Architects offers full-service architectural services, specializing in new construction, renovation, remodeling, interiors, space planning, and accessibility renovations.
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