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	architecture quotations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If we believe that the object of architecture is to provide a framework for people’s lives, then the rooms in our houses, and the relation between them must be determined by the way we will live in them and move through them.
		In architecture color is used to emphasize the character of a building, to accentuate its form and material, and to elucidate its divisions.
		Architecture is the first manifestation of man creating his own universe, creating it in the image of nature, submitting to the laws of nature, the laws which govern our own nature, our universe.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~arendt/architecture_quotations.html (2143 words)

	American Domestic Architecture ~ Chapter One
		Architectural publications had a dramatic impact particularly in rural areas, where no architectural services were available, permitting builders in the country to erect the latest designs.
		In the case of Los Angeles, a functional architecture with flat roofs, stucco exterior walls, open courtyards, patios, pergolas, and use of glass window-walls and doors developed that was appropriate for both the mild climate and the out-door lifestyle.
		Architectural historians should be allowed many diversions, but their first responsibility is to show how, through a compelling rendering of the elements of architecture and their assembly, vital ideas become transmuted into vivid and memorable form.
	www.infosentialpress.com /adach1.htm (7890 words)

	Russian art and architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Russian church became independent of the Greek Orthodox faith, and the Moscow school of art and architecture became the official liturgical and court art of Russia, maintaining this status until the 18th cent.
		In architecture a new period began in the 15th cent., when the first of many Italian architects were invited to work on the Kremlin in Moscow (see under kremlin).
		Russian architecture in the 20th cent., after a brief phase of constructivist experimentation in the 1920s, tended toward an unimaginative combination of neoclassicism and skyscraper construction.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ru/Russiana.html (1304 words)

	History \| TAUBMAN COLLEGE of Architecture and Urban Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Architecture was recognized as a formal course of study in 1906 when a program was established in the Department of Engineering with Emil Lorch as chair.
		In 1965, Landscape Architecture was moved to the School of Natural Resources as a result of its growing relationship to the earth sciences.
		The Doctoral Program in Architecture was also modified in 1989 and the degree designation changed to a Ph.D., giving the College a more comprehensive program of professional and doctoral education in both architecture and urban planning.
	www.caup.umich.edu /welcome/history.html (715 words)

	Research
		The traditional architecture of the inner city is barely visibly and experienced.
		Architectural thoughts in the first couple of decades came to terms with independence and the international scene.
		The architectural expressions that we have witnessed today are a result the combined interaction of climate, culture, and craft within the cultural milieu of Vadodara city.
	members.rediff.com /Lavu/Research.html (842 words)

	French Culture \| art: Research Architecture / Frac Centre Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Research Architecture: Selections from the FRAC Centre Collection, Orléans is an exhibition of over 100 architectural models, drawings, and documents from the international art and architecture collection of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain du Centre, Orléans, France (FRAC Centre).
		The show is curated by Philippe Barriere (Architect and Architecture Historian, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Kansas, Lawrence), Lia Gangitano (Curator, Thread Waxing Space) and William Menking (Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Pratt Institute).
		The specific relationship of research architecture to sculpture, whose primary goal is to experiment with new schemes of construction rather than establish usefulness, will be investigated in the first part of the exhibition.
	www.frenchculture.org /art/events/frac.html (648 words)

	Part 1 of 2: Once grand, now bland - baltimoresun.com
		The building is by no means as architecturally imposing as the mansionlike Northern Trust bank a few blocks away, but it is certainly a better fit for the suburb's downtown than yet another McBank.
		Banks have long served as patrons for distinguished architecture, though they have spawned controversy, too, as in the current building boom of small branch banks in Chicago and around the nation.
		1954: Bank architecture moves a step further from the classical, fortress of finance model with the opening of a modernist, glass-walled bank for Manufacturers Trust Co. in Manhattan.
	www.baltimoresun.com /business/chi-0502220489feb23,0,2233673.story?page=3 (1484 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Frank Gehry
		It was from these innovative beginnings that Gehry found the path to designing his architectural masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a stone, glass, and titanium structure on an industrial waterfront.
		Architecture critic Herbert Muschamp described viewing the building as “more of a mass of light than as a proper building.” Since it opened in 1997, the Guggenheim Bilbao has become an icon of late 20th-century design and has been applauded as a work of genius.
		Gehry is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, often described as being the equivalent in architecture of the Nobel Prize.
	www.lectures.org /gehry.html (564 words)

	Architecture Graduate Programs outside U.S.A.
		Seminar on the scope of architecture and various topics related to architecture, including the state of the art and concept in architecture as a field of inquiry and as a profession; architectural education and development.
		The programme is a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, Department of Architectural History, the Faculty of Social Science, Department of Anthropology at Leiden University, and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and the Department of Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology.
		The graduate of the Masters Degree in Architecture would have demonstrated a commitment to the understanding of the practice of architecture as both an artist and as a professional.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/out/architecture_out.html (1547 words)

	CALA: Press Releases
		His later and more well-known architectural projects include the U.S. embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen, both 1954; the Pillsbury House in Wayzata, Minn., 1963; the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, also 1963; the Cedar-Riverside housing complex in Minneapolis, 1962-73 (the first federally funded New-Town-in-Town in the U.S.); and his own Glass Cube vacation house,1974.
		When he became head of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture in 1954, he helped establish a program that consistently ranked among the top five professional degree programs in the U.S., with one of the highest percentages of adjunct faculty rosters in the country, bridging the gap between the classroom and the profession.
		The architecture and landscape architecture departments, studios and classrooms are found in the existing building.
	www.cala.umn.edu /PressReleases_rapson2.html (725 words)

	Conscientious: Architecture Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Today’s city is, however, a pale shadow of the medieval maze that was Boston before large-scale modern planning and spatial concepts entered the picture." Have a look at photos showing Boston's change.
		This is particularly ironic in the light of the awe expressed by Americans when they come back from Europe: If Europeans had given their own cities the same treatment, all the old stuff wouldn't be around there any longer, either.
		Julian Thomas sent me the link to Heavy Metal Madness, noting that if you put together those postcards of industrial buildings you'd end up with something that looks very similar to what the Bechers have been doing with their photography.
	www.jmcolberg.com /weblog/archives/cat_architecture.html (916 words)

	Cooper Union School of Architecture: Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He received an award for excellence in the study of architecture from the Henry Adams Fund, A.I.A., Chicago.
		He currently teaches ARCH 185, Crossings, a seminar on which the focus is the use of a sketchbook as a repository of initial insights, their development and content.
		Ongoing and current projects are the painting and drawing of, and the architecture for The Existence Paintings, The Seated Man, The Standing Man, and The Heads (large and small).
	www.cooper.edu /architecture/faculty/faculty/candido.html (464 words)

	CALA: Press Releases
		When he became head of the School of Architecture in 1954, Rapson brought to the university a new era of modernism--the International Style--which differed from the Beaux Arts classical tradition that had up until then typically served as the foundation of an architectural education.
		He established a program that consistently ranked among the top five professional degree programs in the US, with one of the highest percentages of adjunct faculty rosters in the country to bridge the gap between the classroom and the profession.
		"As head of the School of Architecture for 30 years, Ralph Rapson helped shape the departments of architecture and landscape architecture into the leading programs they are today," said Tom Fisher, dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
	www.cala.umn.edu /PressReleases_rapson.html (306 words)

	AllRefer.com - Victorian style (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		Victorian style, in British and American architecture, an eclectic mode based on the revival of older styles, often in new combinations.
		In domestic architecture, the Arts and Crafts revival, based on the writings and decorative designs of William Morris, synthesized aspects of Queen Anne, Tudor, and English vernacular design.
		The Victorian style is used to describe any of a number of analogous historical revivals in the United States in the second half of the 19th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Victorian.html (341 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Hejduk, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hejduk began teaching architecture in 1954, and in 1964 he joined Cooper Union, becoming Dean of the School of Architecture there in 1975.
		He also worked in various architectural offices in New York, including that of I. Pei (1956–8), and in 1965 he established his own office in New York.
		1954), a linear grid concerned with such concepts as frame, post, centre, periphery, extension and compression, which was developed as a pedagogical tool for first-year students.
	www.artnet.com /library/03/0373/T037320.asp (471 words)

	Archpedia - New Brutalism Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A term coined in 1954 to describe architecture influenced by Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles.
		In England, the style was exemplified by the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, who began their career working in a Mies van der Rohe-influenced form (e.g.
		Hunstanton School, 1954) but moved to the creation of urban housing and office blocks (e.g.
	www.archpedia.com /Styles-New-Brutalism.html (177 words)

	..Columbus, Indiana - Architecture History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the city grew in the last half of the 19th century, many of the city’s finest buildings were constructed at that time, including the Bartholomew County Courthouse, completed in 1874.
		The next step towards modern architecture occurred in 1954 with the construction of Irwin Union Bank, designed by Eero Saarinen.
		With the construction of Schmitt Elementary School in 1957 and in support of the concept that the built environment is crucial to a quality community, the Cummins Engine Foundation offered to pay the architect’s fee for any new school that was designed by an architect selected from a list supplied by the Foundation.
	columbus.in.us /page.asp?page=ArchitectureHistory (504 words)

	Newsday.com: The new McBanks: Devaluing design
		The Berwyn bank symbolizes just how fleeting architectural permanence can be -- and how the economic Darwinism of the marketplace can play havoc with historic banks, no matter what the reassuring words on their walls.
		In Chicago, the rush away from architectural monumentality has done severe aesthetic damage to the modern banking hall at the base of Bank One's distinctive Loop skyscraper.
		There is no better place to examine the tensions roiling banking architecture than the soaring, ground-floor banking hall at Bank One Plaza, the muscular concrete tower at the corner of Dearborn and Madison Streets.
	www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/chi-0502240067feb24,0,5894670.story (1358 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)

	egyptian architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Egyptian architecture is something I have invested some time in studying Its a valid point that you are not an expert, and your opinion less relevant than...
		But primarily we date the pyramids by their position in the development of Egyptian architecture and material culture over the broad sweep of 3,000 years.
		Of particular note is a new view on the development of Egyptian architecture, with a stress on the existence of local forms until the end of the old kingdom...
	ukrainian-art.com /egyptian-architecture.shtml (1354 words)

	Copyright
		She has served as president of the Association for Women in Architecture and member of the founding Board of Directors of California Women in Environmental Design, and is currently a member of the Board of Advisors for the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, for which she directs the publications program.
		Formerly Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University, he is the Luce Professor of Architecture, Urbanism and History at New York University, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Kenan Professor of Architecture Emeritus at Princeton University.
		He is a member of the Architectural League, the New York State Association of Architects and the Society of Architectural Historians and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Academy in Rome.
	www.architect.org /institute/trustees/trustees.html (3615 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Russian art and architecture @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RUSSIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE [Russian art and architecture] the artistic and architectural production of the geographical area of Russia.
		The Cathedral of the Dormition (1475-79), planned by Aristotele Fioravanti, is notable for a new rationality of proportions, and Italian High Renaissance elements can also be seen in the decoration (pilasters, scallop shells, and arches) of the Cathedral of St. Michael (1505-9), built by Alevisio Novi.
		The Italian Antonio Rinaldi (c.1709-c.1790), the French architect Jean Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (1729-1800), and the Scottish Charles Cameron (c.1740-c.1815) were responsible for the neoclassical architecture that Catherine promoted as the official court style.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Russiana&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1321 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Mendes da Rocha, Paulo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He graduated in architecture in 1954 from Mackenzie University, São Paulo, one of a new generation of professionals from the newly created, autonomous architecture faculties that replaced the specialist courses in engineering schools.
		In 1961 he was invited by João B. Vilanova Artigas, one of the runners-up in the competition for the athletics club, to lecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo; he was dismissed by the military government in 1969 because of his political views.
		His architecture was increasingly influenced by Brutalism; the influence of Artigas was particularly evident in his early designs, although he also admired Oscar Niemeyer and Affonso Eduardo Reidy.
	www.artnet.com /library/05/0567/T056795.asp (303 words)

	Memorial & Commemorative Trees at the University of Virginia - Officially Designated Trees
		Joseph Norwood Bosserman joined the University of Virginia's School of Architecture faculty in 1954, serving as assistant dean for four years until his appointment as dean in 1967.
		He led the architecture school from 1967 until 1981, helping establish the school's national prominence.
		Joe received his bachelors of science in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1948 and an M.F.A. from Princeton in 1952.
	www.virginia.edu /architectoffice/memorialtree/officialBosserman.html (91 words)

	Earthlore Gothic Dreams Introduction - An Appreciation of the Gothic Style in Art & Architecture
		Of or relating to an architectural style prevalent in western Europe from the 12th through the 15th century and characterized by pointed arches, rib vaulting, and flying buttresses.
		Today we may still benefit from the profound spiritual, architectural and cultural legacies contained within the structures that arose through the Gothic era.
		Within the broad view of architectural history, this aspect is evidenced with outstanding success by the medieval builders.
	www.elore.com /Gothic/introduction.htm (1674 words)

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		The AAI was founded in 1896 'to promote and afford facilities for the study of architecture and the allied sciences and arts, and to provide a medium of friendly communication between members and others interested in the progress of architecture'.
		Architecture Australia is the official national magazine of the RAIA, and keeps architects, interior designers and other building professionals informed about the latest architectural projects, and issues related to architectural practice and the profession.
		The NA was formed by the end of 1969 with the initial goal of developing research studies in the field of Architecture, with a special emphasis on housing and urbanism.
	www.clr.toronto.edu /cgi-bin/clrdb/VIRTUALLIB/DB/link2?PRECISE=KEYS&ANY=La (6752 words)

	NIE 71.2 August 1999 - Inspired By A Smoke-filled Tube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The annual event requires each graduating senior architecture major to complete the same design project on the same location.
		Alper Aytac received honorable mention in the competition, which is funded with an endowment established by Gui, a 1954 OSU architecture graduate, in 1996.
		Knowlton School of Architecture, New York architect Larry Davis, and the two Atlanta architects who will design the new Ohio State architecture building -- Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam -- were members of the panel that judged the projects in Ives Hall.
	www.eng.ohio-state.edu /news/coe_news/nie/nie712/712_inspired.html (508 words)

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