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  Architecture Observed - Newark Public Library
An exhibition entitled "Architecture Observed" is on view in at The Newark Public Library through September 2001.
Of particular interest are groupings of architectural drawings in color by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Rockefeller Center, the development of skyscrapers and the remarkable development of interest in the preservation of old buildings are noted in some depth in this lively, colorful and eclectic coverage of the endlessly fascinating growth of everybody's built environment.
www.npl.org /Pages/ProgramsExhibits/Exhibits/ao.html   (893 words)

  
 ArtLex on architecture
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.
Sir Banister Fletcher wrote in A History of Architecture, "The interior of the building is dimly lit through pierced marble lattices and contains a virtuoso display of carved marble.
"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html   (2264 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1957 in architecture
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See also: 1956 in architecture, other events of 1957, 1958 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
The Interbau project in West Berlin is completed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1957-in-architecture   (110 words)

  
 Bernard Maybeck - Great Buildings Online
Maybeck was born in New York in 1862.
In 1882 he travelled to Paris where he studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
During his studies he embraced the theories of Viollet-le-duc with their combined emphasis on medievalism and technological advancement.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Bernard_Maybeck.html   (281 words)

  
 INVENTORY OF THE LEO STEINBERG RESEARCH PAPERS, 1945-1996 (bulk 1950-1993)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Afterlife of Romanesque, notes: Is romanesque a style or a transition only; romanesque architecture defined; internationalization; on romanesque (C17, C18).
with lecture and seminar notes taken by LS when he was a graduate student, Early Renaissance Sculpture, 1957, taught by H.W. Janson; Funerary Sculpture, 1958, taught by Erwin Panofsky; Iconography of Architecture, 1958 taught by Richard Krautheimer and Bates Lowry, NYU.
with photos and inserted notes from course taken by LS when he was a graduate student, Roman Architecture, 1957, taught by J.B. Ward Perkins, NYU; includes reading notes, final exam paper and one lecture, History of Rome from Early Christian Times, taught by Richard Krautheimer.
www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/steinbrg_m7.html   (1676 words)

  
 Robert W. Marans Profile | TAUBMAN COLLEGE of Architecture and Urban Planning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
ROBERT W. Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
• University of Michigan, Bachelor of Architecture, June 1957.
• Editorial Advisory Boards: Journal of Architecture and Planning Research; Social Indicators Research; International Journal of Urban Sciences, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Presentative Medicine
www.tcaup.umich.edu /facultystaff/faculty/maransrprofile.html   (443 words)

  
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9516826075 : Matter & Mind in Architecture : Tuukkanen, Pirkko; Baldeweg, Navarro; Gregotti; Harries; Leiviska; Patkau; Saariaho; Schildt; Sejima, K.; Wang, W.; Wingardh, Zaera-Polo
9517465424 : Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957-1967 : Ceferin, Petra
9518266697 : Mita: Mobile Internet Technical Architecture : Solutions and Tools : Nokia
www.ecampus.com /isbnbrowser2.asp?isbnstart=951   (1079 words)

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