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  AllRefer.com - Walter Gropius (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Walter Gropius[vAl´tur grO´pEoos] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture.
His influence on the dissemination of functional architectural theory and the rise of the International style was immense.
He continued his architectural activity with this group, the Architects Collaborative (TAC), in such works as the U.S. embassy at Athens, the Univ. of Baghdad (1961), and the Grand Central City building, New York City (1963).
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 Japanese architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan.
These buildings illustrate the first epoch of Japanese architecture (6th–8th cent.), which was characterized by gravity, frankness of construction, and simple, vital compositions, sparsely ornamented.
As in Greek and Chinese architecture, little use is made of diagonal members, and the framing is almost exclusively a system of uprights and horizontals.
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Arbi­trary architec­ture is accompanied by a certain free­dom from these two elements, while non-arbi­trary architecture is constrained by them in some way.
His architectural expressions are so deeply and harmo­niously rooted in the natural environment that one can hardly question their necessity and appropri­ateness.
His preference for Oriental philosophy and archi­tecture was not a fashionable interest in stylistic novelty but, rather, a deep and genu­ine concern the truth of architecture itself.
www.arch.ksu.edu /seamon/Lin91.htm   (1926 words)

  
 Architecture Reference Collection, Architecture & Fine Arts Library, University of Florida
Architecture and ornament : an illustrated dictionary / by Margaret Maliszewski-Pickart.
Architecture in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings / Terence M. Russell ; with the collaboration of Ann-Marie Ashworth.
Encyclopaedia of Hindu architecture / by Prasanna Kumar Acharya.
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 Additional references about architecture (from architecture) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements of civilized people and thus embraces both utilitarian and aesthetic ends.
It is one of the decorative arts and is allied to architecture, city planning, and horticulture.
The architecture and building techniques used by the Spanish for their missions are still around to be seen today.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-196623?tocId=196623   (848 words)

  
 ::: Dearborn-Massar Photograph Collection :::
Three significant postwar developments had their roots in the prewar period: the ascendancy of Modernism in Northwest architecture, the influence of graduates from the University of Washington in the local architectural profession, and the transformation of Seattle's urban form in response to the automobile.
By the early 1950s, awareness of the coherent character of Northwest architecture was inspiring discussion of "regionalism" as a valid concern for local architects.
The architecture in Seattle and the Northwest had already received widespread attention in 1953 when the national meeting of the American Institute of Architects was held in Seattle and Architectural Record devoted its April 1953 issue to the region's architectural production.
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 ArtLex on architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
Great Buildings Collection is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history.
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 Architecture of the University of Oregon: A History, Bibliography, and Research Guide
Ellis Lawrence consulted with W. Willcox, the new head of the architecture program (from 1922), about the renovation and enhancement of the existing structures to house the growing School of Architecture and Alllied Arts.
Construction ended in June 1923 on this wing (to the south) of the Architecture building which housed art studios and a gallery.
The library's reading room is named for Marion Dean Ross, architectural historian and first chair of the Art History department, who died in 1991 and left a large bequest to acquire architectural books.
libweb.uoregon.edu /guides/architecture/oregon/lawrence.html   (976 words)

  
 Reynolds Career Guidance Cell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The notion that architecture is the art of building was implied by Alberti in the first published treatise on the theory of architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485; Eng.
The specific denotation of architecture as "the art of building," however, seems to be a French tradition, deriving perhaps from the medieval status of master masons, as understood by the 16th-century architect Philibert Delorme.
Before the 18th century it was generally accepted that the theory of architecture was concerned mainly with important private or civic buildings such as palaces, mansions, churches and monasteries.
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 . : History of the Future
Polshek received a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University Graduate School of Architecture in 1955, and in 1956, was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
From 1972 to 1987 he was Dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Special Advisor to the President for Planning and Design at Columbia University, where he currently is Professor of Architecture.
Polshek Partnership Architects is an internationally acclaimed architectural firm producing work across the entire spectrum of architectural endeavor, including new building design, historic preservation and adaptive re-use, and planning.
www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/1497   (301 words)

  
 Finding Aids: William Allan Coles, 1951-1993
Architecture in America: A Battle of Styles, (1961), 1959-1968.
Architecture and Society: Selected Essays of Henry Van Brunt, (1969), 1959-1976.
As a founder, a board member of the society, and as editor of Classical America, Coles accumulated extensive correspondence relating to the activities of the society and the publication of the journal.
www.bostonathenaeum.org /coles.html   (790 words)

  
 FORWARD : Arts & Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For Rachel Wischnitzer's 1955 book "Synagogue Architecture in the United States: History and Interpretation," the first and last great survey of the subject, architect Philip Johnson was invited to write a brief preface.
Johnson was then only a few years from his short but very active career as a practicing antisemite, a period that included a failed debut as a fascist politician and a more successful stint as a fellow-traveling journalist.
They were not built in the styles around them, but neither were they built in a style of their own.
www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.09.26/arts2.architecture.html   (1156 words)

  
 Global EcoVillage - Phil Hawes - Print
Directed all architecture and design development for Biosphere 2, a three acre habitat for ecological systems, including tropical rainforest, savannah, marsh, ocean, desert, agriculture, and human habitat biomes.
The creation of a sustainable human community where the environmental architecture and technics are integrated organically with the surrounding ecosystem.
The infrastructure of energy systems, water recycling, transportation, and other systems are all a visible part of the community and serve as an educational demonstration of an ecological lifestyle.
globalecovillage.com /dev_team/phil_hawes_print.htm   (2579 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fallingwater Rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Architectural historian Toker (Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait) approaches the building as a tense but fruitful collaboration between Wright's genius and the encouragement given it by his patron, Pittsburgh department store magnate E. Kaufmann, whom Toker credits with being "almost...
Franklin Toker scrupulously examines the intriguing chronicles of this architectural icon and those most responsible for its rise to international prominence with unprecedented accuracy and lively narration.
At times, I also find architectural book either to be shallow (bombarding us with glossy pictures and thus no substance) or too dry for an architectural enthusiast to go all the way.
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 artnet.com: Resource Library: Rossi, Aldo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He began studying at the Politecnico di Milano in 1949 and from the beginning was interested in both the practice and theory of architecture.
In 1955 he was a delegate to the International Union of Students Congress in Rome and as a consequence had the opportunity to visit Prague and the USSR.
In 1963 he began to teach architecture, at first as an assistant to Ludovico Quaroni at the Scuola Urbanistica, Arezzo, then with Carlo Aymonino at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice; in 1965 he joined the architecture faculty at the Politecnico di Milano.
www.artnet.com /library/07/0740/T074014.asp   (329 words)

  
 Ron Bloore - Slides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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1977] - art, architecture, clusters and details - 2366 - 2459 Ravenna, [c.
1962 - 1963], 1973 - art, architecture, details, street scenes and landscapes - 3323 - 3480 Turkey, [c.
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 1955 - free-definition
1955 is a Common year starting on Saturday.
Saturday, November 5, 1955 - This is the date Marty McFly arrived in 1955 in the film Back to the Future.
Saturday, November 12, 1955 - A key date in the Back to the Future trilogy.
www.netlexikon.akademie.de /1955.html   (1209 words)

  
 Bangkok Post Perspective Sunday 09 October 2005 - Planning for a new Bangkok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There was a touch of pride in his voice as he related that the almost perfect symmetry of the marks, which resemble facial features (but in fact are scratch marks from the runway) was proof positive that his landing had been right on the money, especially the long "nose" exactly in the centre.
He received a Bachelor (1955) and a Master (1955) in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Krisda was a recipient in 1960 of a scholarship by the government of the French Republic to study architecture at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris.
www.bangkokpost.com /091005_Perspective/09Oct2005_pers02.php   (1925 words)

  
 Design and Build   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ask students at another school about the architecture in their community.
Analyze the types of architecture and structures that have survived over a long period of time.
Write a report about one type of building, architecture or one architect with the their emphasis around the world (e.g., cathedrals, Frank Lloyd Wright).
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 Victorian Architecture | Victorian Buildings | Victorian Architectural Design | Architecture of the Victorian Period | ...
Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings (includes information on Victorian Architecture in "Victorian Eclecticism (c.
Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (includes information on Victorian Architecture in "Domestic Architecture and Victorian Feminism")
Mill and Mansion: A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865 (includes information on Victorian Architecture in the Introduction)
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 Innovative 9 Architecture and Landscape - 2003 Lecture Series
This ninth annual lecture series on innovative architecture is organized by the University Architect/Planning Office and additionally supported by the Art Department, the Contemporary Collectors Circle of the Cantor Arts Center, the Presidents Office and the Program on Urban Studies.
He attended the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London from 1955 to 62 and the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, in 1967.
Carlos graduated from the University of Houston School of Architecture in 1981, and established his private practice in Houston in 1982.
www.stanford.edu /dept/archplng/events/lecture-series.html   (551 words)

  
 1955 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
Southeastern Architectural Archive ("architectural and urban history of New Orleans and the Gulf South, from the 1830s through the 1980s, with significant holdings for other regions of the country.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America (Architectural photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955) (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
Space Syntax Page ("The aim of the SSL is to develop clear and simple methods for describing and analysing architectural and urban forms so that researchers can study those forms, whether actual or hypothetical, and their relation to social function, in as scientific a way
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 Columbia News ::: St. Petersburg Times CEO Andrew Barnes to Chair Pulitzer Prize Board
Born in 1909, Raskin studied at Columbia, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1930 and a master's in architecture in 1932, then went on to teach at his Alma Mater from 1936 to 1976.
During that time he published three books on architecture: Architecturally Speaking (1955), Sequel to Cities (1971) and Architecture and People (1974).
Among his works were the 1949 comedy "One's a Crowd," in which a nuclear physicist develops four personalities after an experiment goes dangerously awry, and 1951's romantic fantasy "Amata," which was produced at New York City's Circle in the Square Theater.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/04/07/eugeneRaskin.html   (341 words)

  
 Architronic v4n2.03 references
Of the architectural consultants, Saarinen was by far the most sensitive and helpful to the Academy architects.
The article extols the virtue and beauty of the International Style of architecture used in the design of the "three new shipshape schools for sailors, and a welcome trend in the services toward imagination and quality." "The Navy's New Architecture," Architectural Forum, 103 (July 1955): 148-55.
At last we have found--away from weak imitations of borrowed styles of the past--a genuine architectural expression which vigorously characterizes the present american [sic] approach in science and industry.
architronic.saed.kent.edu /v4n2/v4n2.03ref.html   (2279 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1955: Architecture
MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1955: Architecture
During 1955 U.S. architecture continued to influence building trends throughout the world.
What with the extension of foreign aid to governments abroad and the growing influence of U.S. business and industry on the peoples of the globe, American techniques and styles were rapidly becoming principal...
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 JEWSWEEK - A new architecture for a new kind of Jew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Johnson was then only a few years from his short but very active career as a practicing anti-Semite, a period that included a failed debut as a fascist politician and a more successful stint as a fellow-traveling journalist.
American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community, written by Samuel Gruber and published recently by Rizzoli, may be the best book on the subject to appear in the nearly five decades since Wischnitzer.
It is in the modern synagogue, emerging from the cultural riptides of mid-century Jewish life, that -- for the first time in the Diaspora -- Jews set about to create a purpose-built Jewish architecture rendered in a distinctly Jewish style.
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 Course Information - UT School of Information
Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1996.
Architecture, Ambition and Americans: A Social History of American Architecture.
www.gslis.utexas.edu /~i389cgd/readings.html   (738 words)

  
 eBay - world architecture, Nonfiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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