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  American Architecture - Twentieth Century - 1950 to 1959 - Great Buildings Online
Bavinger House, by Bruce Goff, at Norman, Oklahoma, 1950 to 1955.
Central Lutheran Church, by Pietro Belluschi, at Portland, Oregon, 1950 to 1951.
Kresge Auditorium, by Eero Saarinen, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950 to 1955.
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 Modern in Melbourne, Lectures, Regionalism, Romantic Engineering & Formalist Pre-occupations, Architecture in ...
Freeland's 'Architecture in Australia: A History' on the other hand acknowledged the diversity of approaches prevalent in post-war Australian architecture but was inclined to attribute it to the increasing sophistication of available building technologies dazzling architects with a suddenly much wider range of potential formal strategies to apply to their buildings.
Another important characteristic of the local architecture of the early 1950's was the structural exuberance it often exhibited.
The influence of Lloyd-Wright on Melbourne architecture probably peaked however in the 1960's with the work of Geoffrey Woodfall, the former Guilford Bell collaborator David Godsell, Charles Duncan, the commercial practice Jorgensen and Hough and some of the projects of Kevin Knight then design architect for the old Melbourne practice of Oakley and Parkes.
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  1950 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 1950: Architecture - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
1950: Architecture - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
The mounting costs of labor and materials in 1950 operated to force greater frugality and simplicity in architectural design.
Attracting wide attention because of modernity in design were Frank Lloyd Wright's research laboratory for the Johnson Wax Co. at Racine, Wis., a glass-enclosed structure of...
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 Architecturally Significant Homes, Dallas Architecture, Dallas Architectural Styles: Douglas Newby specializing in ...
The architectural schools led by Harwell Hamilton Harris at the University of Texas taught Modernism.
The result was the most robust proliferation of contemporary architecture in the country.
While he is known for his monumental projects, his interest in architecture began in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he entered a lumberyard sponsored birdhouse competition, which he won.
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 European Church Architecture, 1950-2000
For the first time since the nineteenth century, the design and construction of houses of worship has resurfaced as a major focus in contemporary architecture and this stunning volume shows why.
In addition, essays by respected architectural historians as well as prominent theologians discuss the variety of ecclesiastical buildings as well as how the church is viewed both from a Roman Catholic and Protestant perspective.
He writes primarily on the subjects of architecture, town planning, preservation of monuments and public art.
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 Archpedia - Architecture Magazines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On an international level this magazine is one of the most widely distributed monthly magazine on architecture, interiors and design.
Archis is a monthly on architecture, city, and visual culture.
The leading magazine recording architectural activity in Australia and by Australian architects working around the world.
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 Encyclopedia: 1950 in architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Future City Experiment and Utopia in Architecture from 1950 to Now | Dexigner
From Archigram to Zaha Hadid, Future City traces the history and development of international experimental architecture since 1950.
This exhibition at London's Barbican Centre runs from June 15 to September 17, 2006, and features 60 visionary building projects and urban plans from around the world.
These ground-breaking projects illustrate the energy and experimentation that characterise radical architecture, and raise questions about the nature of buildings, cities and society.
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 ARH276: European Art & Architecture, 1900-1950
Provides links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).
Covering architecture and related fields such as planning, landscape architecture, and interior design Avery Index provides regular access to approximately 1,000 periodicals from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
BHA provides access to literature on the post-classical western visual arts published in over 3,000 periodicals and in books, exhibition catalogues, doctoral dissertations, Festschriften and other collected essays, selected art dealers' catalogues, and conference publications.
www.smith.edu /libraries/research/class/arh276kksp05.htm   (528 words)

  
 Continuing Education - Architecture: 1950-2005
This course aims to introduce the language of Post-Modern architecture and identify some of the key architects and enable students to identify and interpret the architecture of the period.
There is much post 1950 architecture in this country; some of this will be examined together with examples from around the world.
Note: There are many suitable Taschen texts on architecture of this period, often reduced in price.
www.rdg.ac.uk /conted/course05/CD1SD0505SYL.htm   (315 words)

  
 eBay - Pre-1950 Architecture Photo Images Finder - Find IT on eBay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Lynn, G. Architecture and image-building in seventeenth-century Hertfordshire
Hunneyball, P. Architecture as performance in seventeenth-century Europe: court ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris
Frampton, K. Theology in stone: church architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley
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 Montmartre, Paris 1950 - Architecture cheap posters by Rene Jacques free preview
Montmartre, Paris 1950 - Architecture cheap posters by Rene Jacques free preview
Montmartre, Paris 1950 posters/prints (Rene Jacques) in Stairs from Architecture series - This is small preview of poster, click to get larger version:
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 SOCIAL FICTION LINKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Browse into the liquid architecture of Kas Oosterhuis
a webzine dedicated exclusively to Classical and Traditional Architecture and Urbanism
Through the art of appropriate placement of both secular and spiritual structures, places where we pray, work and play, geomancers locate and shape spaces in harmony with both the physical and the spiritual environment of the place
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SAINT FRIDESWIDE'S MONASTERY AT OXFORD archaeological and architectural studies
ARCHITECTURE, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH THE WORK OF LESLIE MARTIN: PAPERS AND SELECTED ARTICLE
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 Professional & Technical Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Design Culture in Liverpool 1880-1914: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture
Humanizing the Institution: The Architecture of Bobrow / Thomas Associates
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
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 Sharston Books - A vast selection of out-of-print and current titles...
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