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  Exploration of Architecture
If you are considering a career in architecture, engineering, or urban planning you will have the chance to try out your interests in a studio setting at one of the top architecture schools in the country.
The USC Exploration of Architecture program provides high school students from across the country and the world with an intensive and in-depth introduction to the world of architecture and the experience of an architectural education.
In addition to experiencing first hand the intensive involvement of an architectural education, the students are introduced to the experience of a university campus life.
arch.usc.edu /page_2770.jsp   (1092 words)

  
  Table of Contents and Excerpt, Burian, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
In her essay, Celia Arredondo discusses the Ciudad Universitaria (CU; University City) as an icon of Modern architecture in Mexico and explores its relationship to the conception of the universal man of the Modern movement versus the conception of a new Mexican man born out of the Mexican Revolution.
In particular, the role of women in schools of architecture in Mexico and of women working in the offices of Mario Pani and other notable architects of the time are histories that have yet to be written in English or Spanish.
Works of architecture are again made present through books, which in turn lead to their reevaluation by academics, practicing architects, governmental authorities, the general public, and their daily users.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exburmod.html   (0 words)

  
 1952 in architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Architecture is the practice of designing any buildings or structures.
The practice of architecture can be traced to its origins to every human civilization, architecture is the art of building.
The current practice of Architecture can be broken down into Three general forms of expression: Classical architecture is based on Greek and Roman design methods that can be traced even further to Egyptian and Byzantine models.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1952_in_architecture.html   (538 words)

  
 Art and Architecture,Art Architecture Tour,India Architecture Tour,Architecture Tours India,Art Architecture Tour India
Its young, its lively and a confluence of varied cultural currents and cross currents have given Mumbai a unique position of the most multi-ethnic city of India.
Flora Fountain marks a junction of five streets and known as the 'Picadilly Circus' of Mumbai, which is decorated at its four corners with mythological figures, the Fountain is a structure in dull stone with a figure the Roman Goddess of flowers, at the top.
Built in 1952 and named after the wife of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, this park covers an area of 4,000 sq.
www.luxurytoursofindia.com /art-and-achitecture-tour.html   (758 words)

  
 IN THE CAUSE OF ARCHITECTURE
hroughout its 113-year history, Architectural Record has invited leading practitioners of the arts to submit their thoughts on the state of architecture.
In the Cause of Architecture revives these documents, which are important not just as celebrity essays, but as time capsules of the development of architecture in the late 19th and the 20th Centuries.
It is generally believed that his first mention was in the ARCHITECTURAL RECORD for 1908, but in April 1904 a commentator named Arthur C. David* had this to say, referring to the new stylistic manifestations of the Chicago spirit: 'It really derives its momentum and inspiration chiefly from the work of Mr.
archrecord.construction.com /inTheCause/onTheState/default.asp   (842 words)

  
 Today in History: January 26
Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of all Dutch possessions in North America, feared the indigent newcomers would burden the colony but when he motioned to eject the Jewish newcomers the Company refused his petition (many of the company's shareholders themselves being Jewish).
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955
Nevertheless, the group's unique synagogue architecture, liturgical music, and lifestyle remained strong.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan26.html   (1767 words)

  
 Introduction: Triumph of the Baroque-NGA
Emerging in both Rome and Paris shortly after 1600, the baroque in art and architecture soon spread throughout Europe, where it prevailed for one hundred and fifty years.
Architecture affirmed this -- through the structures and decorative programs of palaces, churches, public and government buildings, scientific and commercial buildings, and military installations.
Baroque architects also mastered the unification of the visual arts -- painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, and urban planning -- to a remarkable degree, producing buildings and structures with a heightened sense of drama and power.
www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2000/baroque/intro1.htm   (368 words)

  
 Summer sketching school
They record both information and knowledge and reveal a process of inquiry and searching in which architectural ideas are explored and a deeper understanding of the environment developed.
By the end of the course, the place is thoroughly and eloquently documented in the fifteen hundred images generated by the group over the eight-day period.
The volume of production is impressive, as a body of work and as the result of a process intended to develop in architecture students not only a love of drawing but also an appreciation for its power as a mechanism for understanding the world.
www.mcgill.ca /architecture/sketchingschool   (820 words)

  
 HRC Members Inducted into AIA College of Fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The AIA College of Fellows, founded in 1952, comprises members of the Institute who are elected to Fellowship by a jury of their peers.
Robertson is dean of the College of Architecture and the John and Jeanne Rowe Chair at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Her emphases at IIT are to update and invigorate the pedagogical and architectural heritage of the college, following an evolution from Mies van der Rohe's administration of 1938 to 1958 but anticipating the imperatives of the 21st century.
www.aia.org /nwsltr_hrc.cfm?pagename=hrc_a_20061222_fellows   (929 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- Pei Cobb Fried
Ieoh Ming Pei was born in China in 1917, the son of a prominent banker.
The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of the American Institute of Architects, the highest honor bestowed on an architectural practice by the Institute.
Pei was chosen the Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the $100,000 honorarium from which he used to establish a scholarship fund for Chinese architects to study in the United States (with the strict proviso that they return to China to practice their profession).
www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-PeiCobbFried.htm   (2948 words)

  
 History of Computing  Industrial Era 1952 - 1957
She takes up the concept of reusable software in her 1952 paper entitled "The Education of a Computer",(20) and develops the first software that can translate symbols of higher computer languages into machine language.
The machine called Musasino I is built in the laboratory of the Japanese PTT (NTT) at Musasino - Japan.
The architecture has a strong resemblance to the ILLIAC 1, the one being built on the University of Illinois (USA).
www.thocp.net /timeline/1952.htm   (1553 words)

  
 3D Spatial Models of Great Buildings - Great Buildings Online
Hundreds of free 3D walkthough architectural computer models are available right here at the Great Buildings Online web site, plus links to the free DesignWorkshop® Lite architectural 3D walkthrough software used to view them, for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000 and Power Macintosh.
Built with DesignWorkshop®, these live 3D walkthrough models are all free for your own personal architectural enjoyment, experience, and understanding.
Schroder House, by Gerrit Rietveld, at Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1924 to 1925.
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 Kahtan Al-Madfai Personal Web site   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He won a scholarship in 1945-6 for the studies of Architecture, in Britain.
-Studied in the Welsh School of Architecture and was awarded the Degree of Bachelor of Architecture, in 1952.
-Worked for the Government of Iraq from 1952 to 1964.On the professional level, he established his Architectural Practice, in 1952 (K. Associates, later to become Dar Al Imara- Architects, Engineers and Planners).
www.kahtanmadfai.com /index.htm   (132 words)

  
 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.
This is a open forum to discuss anything relating to Fort Worth, Development, Tourism, Local Interests, Architecture, History, Dining, Recreation, etc. It is also your chance to become an active part of this web site.
www.fortwortharchitecture.com /arch.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Chinese Architecture: Grand Hotel, Taiwan
The Grand Hotel (Yuanshan Da Fandian)--sited on a slope of Yuan Shan (Round Hill) on Chung Shan North Road above the Keelung River--is one of Taipei's most familiar and famous landmarks.
clearly influenced by Beijing's Forbidden City [editors note: it is perhaps also influenced by the Zhenzai tower in Guangzhou]—and its bright yellow tile roof (the world's largest Chinese classical style roof) and vermilion columns make it a visible showplace of Chinese architecture and culture.
Located on the site of a former Japanese temple, the hotel was established in 1952, while the dominant main building opened in the 1960s.
www.orientalarchitecture.com /taipei/GRAND.htm   (0 words)

  
 Theme: Centenary, 1952-1973 - architecture Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
After a slightly exhausted period, the AR became as vigorous as ever, campaigning against mediocre philistinism and for what appeared to be ever more triumphant Modernism.
The immediate post-war euphoria of victory and achievement wore off: for instance as early as 1953, Richards was decrying the 'failure' of the New Town programme, one of the key post-war environmental policies intended to make Britain a decent country for everyone to live in (p73).
By the early '60s, the world seemed a safe place for Modernism and the future assured: more of the same, but with a modest added measure of Corbusian Mannerism and one or two new exotic flavours.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1191_v199/ai_18443459   (781 words)

  
 The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project: Ernest Alton "Tony" Grunsfeld, III
Ernest Alton "Tony" Grunsfeld, III, was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952.
After serving in the military and working briefly in the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill George Fred Keck, and Bertrand Goldberg in Chicago, in 1956 Grunsfeld joined Wallace Yerkes, formerly a partner of his father, noted Chicago architect Ernest Alton Grunsfeld, Jr., in a small residential practice in Chicago.
Photographs and documents of the Adler Planetarium and the Century of Progress International Exposition in are held in the Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection and the Century of Progress Collection in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives.
www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/caohp/grunsfeld.html   (728 words)

  
 Photography: Caspian Sea @ nationalgeographic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was born Reza Deghati in Tabriz, Iran, in 1952.
He later studied architecture at the University of Tehran.
From 1971 to 1978 he photographed rural society and architecture in his homeland.
www.nationalgeographic.com /photography/biographies/reza.html   (272 words)

  
 architecture timeline - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
architecture timeline - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages.
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Architecture-timeline   (161 words)

  
 Environmental Design Archives Descriptive Narratives
Irving F. Morrow was one of the earliest graduates from the newly founded University of California, Berkeley architecture program, graduating in 1906.
Gertrude Comfort Morrow received her bachelor's degree in architecture from UC Berkeley in 1913 and her master's degree a year later.
She served as a supervisory architect for St. Francis Wood during World War I. Gertrude retired from architecture in 1952, when Irving died, and went on to become an award-winning ballroom dancer and a landscape watercolorist.
www.ced.berkeley.edu /cedarchives/profiles/morrow.htm   (273 words)

  
 Washington, D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blair House, built in 1824, served as a temporary executive mansion for President Harry S. Truman and his family from 1948 to 1952, while the interior of the White House was being extensively reconstructed.
North of the White House is Lafayette Square, with a statue of General Andrew Jackson made from a melted-down cannon captured by Jackson during the War of 1812.
Completed in 1801, the Octagon houses a museum dedicated to architecture and the early history of Washington, and is also home to the American Architectural Foundation.
www.thecityofwashingtondc.org   (2672 words)

  
 Architecture books - Professional and Technical books
Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton by Robert Willis
Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin
Architecture of the renaissance in England: Illustrated by a series of views and details from buildings erected between the years 1560-1635, with historical and critical text by J. A Gotch
www.bookstealer.com /collectible/Architecture-books-Professional-and-Technical.html   (9432 words)

  
 The Anatolia Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Swedish Academy said, "Pamuk, in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."
Pamuk, who was born in Istanbul in 1952, studied architecture at the Istanbul Technical University.
However, he left the architecture school after three years to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul in 1976.
www.anatoliantimes.com /hbr2.asp?id=146342   (252 words)

  
 The Howard Foundation
The application process for 2007-2008 awards in Visual Arts, Media Studies, and the History of Art and Architecture has been completed and the evaluation of applicants has now begun.
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation was established in 1952 by Nicea Howard in memory of her grandparents.
Although Miss Howard had a special interest in the Arts, her stated purpose was to aid the personal development of promising individuals at the crucial middle stages of their careers.
www.brown.edu /Divisions/Graduate_School/howard   (585 words)

  
 Electronic Resources-The Library-University of California, Berkeley
The primary source and archival materials relating in the project cover topics from art and architecture to performing arts to technology and applied sciences.
Indexes early Christian and medieval architecture and art objects to 1400 via thematic and iconographic indexes.
Cross-disciplinary coverage includes the arts, history, architecture, design, literature, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture, archaeology, geography, cartography, gender, ethnic and area studies.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /ImageFinder   (2882 words)

  
 »»article Reviews««
Architecture of London: Journal Articles 1980 1987 / A-1952 (Architecture Series--Bibliography, A-1952)
Architecture of Power Plants: Symbols and Reality: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles
Architecture of the hospitality industry : journal articles, 1980-1986
www.financial-book-review.com /american-investments/article/article_104.html   (0 words)

  
 Art History 111 Imagebase
Below, organized in roughly the order of your syllabus, are some of the images-- paintings, maps, photographs, works of sculpture, works of architecture, city plans, designed objects-- that you will look at over this semester.
Anonymous, outer gopura of the Minakshi-Sundareshvara Temple, 13th-10th centures, architecture Indian.
Cross section of a Hopi and Zuni Pueblo, architecture.
www.uic.edu /depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/imagebank.html   (2525 words)

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