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  Archigram / Archigram - Design Museum Exhibition: Architectural Group (1961-1974) - Design/Designer Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Filled with Greene’s poems and sketches of architectural projects designed by Cook, Michael ‘Spider’ Webb and other friends, the magazine voiced their frustration with the intellectual conservatism of the British architectural establishment.
It opened in 1963 as Living City, a manifesto for their belief “in the city as a unique organism”, which is more than a collection of buildings, but a means of liberating people by embracing technology and empowering them to choose how to lead their lives.
One of its strengths was the diversity of a group in which the six core members and their collaborators came from very different backgrounds with different skills and enthusiasms.
www.designmuseum.org /designerex/archigram.htm   (1694 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: modern architecture @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
MODERN ARCHITECTURE [modern architecture] new architectural style that emerged in many Western countries in the decade after World War I. It was based on the "rational" use of modern materials, the principles of functionalist planning, and the rejection of historical precedent and ornament.
The visual aesthetic of modern architecture was largely inspired by the machine and by abstract painting and sculpture.
Increasingly, during the 1950s, modern architecture was criticized for its sterility, its "institutional" anonymity, and its disregard for regional building traditions.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:modarch&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (1030 words)

  
 Metropolis What Goes Up: Amazing Archigram
Gone were the fervent days of modernity when architecture was imbued with the aura of progress and social amelioration, linked to the unalloyed good of technology.
But it was tempered by another set of images, which included the Spitfires and Meccano sets of their common childhoods as well as the architecture of the funfair, with its roller coasters and parachute jumps, a highly elaborated and refined technology of construction devoted to the production not of material goods but of pleasure.
Both aimed at an architecture that tapped into a vivid cultural lode, appropriating a set of images and procedures that were just entering the pale of art.
www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0498/ap98what.htm   (1885 words)

  
 YAM February 1998 - The A&A Building
The new chairman of the architecture department, Charles Moore, was part of a group of "post-modern" architects and academics who were challenging some of the fundamental notions of modernism.
Even though Rudolph had very clear ideas about architecture, he presided over a school where students were free to pursue their own aesthetic ideas, a trait on which the school still prides itself.
Architect Richard Nash Gould '68,'72MArch says that architecture chairman Charles Moore (who died in 1993) told him that a pair of New Haven teenagers were caught at the scene, but that Yale administrators declined to press charges and hushed up the matter to avoid provoking an explosive town-gown conflict.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/98_02/AA.html   (3506 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.
"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.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html   (2264 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
New options and architectural changes that simplify the life in certain aspects but still gives the feeling of something out of the world.
Architecture was a beginning of the new age and made various adjustments.
The pictures are different aspects of architecture to visualize during research.
campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/Peg.Wyse/102-19kayappel/biblo.htm   (621 words)

  
 UVa School of Architecture | Peter Waldman
Published internationally in Global Architecture, Area, Architecture and recently the Yale Perspecta, Waldman is winner of several Progressive Architecture design citations, Urban Design Competitions, and New Jersey AIA Design Awards.
He is currently re-focused on the Lessons of the Lawn as a Teaching Technology Initiative serving the larger University grounding architectural literacy in an ethical condition.
While serving recently as an Architecture Fellow at the American Academy, his work focused on the Villa Aurelia as Construction Site, where it is still rumored that he has discovered mirrors for the moon in the mica mines of this ancient oasis some call Rome.
urban.arch.virginia.edu /faculty/PeterWaldman   (509 words)

  
 ArtForum: Archigram: designs on the future - exhibit 'Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-74'
High architecture culture has jumped on the bandwagon as well; recent exhibitions in New York like "Achille Castiglione: Design!" at at MOMA, "Utopie's Inflatables: The Inflatable Moment" at the Architectural League, and "Shiro Kuramata" at the Grey Gallery all take a retrospective glance at the recent past.
Archigram was christened in 1961, when a group of dissident British neophyte architects - Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Mike Webb - joined forces to produce an alternative architectural broadsheet as a venue for their drawings and collages.
Infiltrating the architectural unconscious, they generated numerous built spin-offs, from the megastructures of the Japanese Metabolists produced in the '60s to the High-Tech structures still being erected today by such established architects as Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v37/ai_21230377   (1338 words)

  
 Faculty of Architecture
The Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology continues the tradition of the Architecture Faculty of the Technical University of Lwów.
In the early years architects were trained at the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Civil Engineering (1949-54), and the Faculty of Industrial and General Building Engineering (since 1961).
In the Polish architecture environment the preferred style is often recognised as the "school of Gliwice".
www.polsl.pl /rar/einfo.html   (1075 words)

  
 ARCHIGRAM -- Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 (English) / Contemporary Art Center, ATM
Having won the most prestigious award in the world of architecture, the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in 2002, the reputation of Archigram is now undergoing a reevaluation, with their foresightedness garnering new attention.
Borrowing from sci-fi comics and advertising images, "Archigram" attempted to propose new modes of cities and architecture within the consumer society, and continued to be published until its 9th issue in 1970.
Besides teaching at the AA (Architectural Association School of Architecture) between 1965 and 1993, he set up the architectural firm, Herron Associates, with his sons Andrew and Simon in 1981.
www.arttowermito.or.jp /archigram/archi.html   (1297 words)

  
 angermann2 » architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The book investigates the fundamental form-generating processes in architecture, considering architecture as a form of artificial life, and proposing a genetic representation in a form of DNA-like code-script, which can then be subject to developmental and evolutionary processes in response to the user and the environment.
Aether induction house is an architecture prototype where we treat digital media as physical matter to build human scale spaces; so the media don’t have to be enclosed in a box, nor has to be the human chained to that box.
Army of clerks […] tries to develop new architectural aesthetics which are not grounded on the creative genius of the architect, but on the relentless accumulation of unintelligent calculations, a mindless arithmetic performed by computational armies of clerks.
angermann2.com /category/architecture   (3010 words)

  
 MCA Chicago: About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The time was ripe for an architectural revolution and the group to do it was Archigram.
Though none of their major projects were ever erected, the significance of this London-based group has influenced a generation of architects and continues to be seen today.
This most prestigious honor is awarded to a person or group of people whose influence on architecture has had an international effect.
www.mcachicago.org /MCA/About/Press/archigram.html   (328 words)

  
 Today in History: December 29
After federal forces captured portions of Tennessee, Lincoln appointed him military governor of the state, an office he assumed in the face of lynch mobs and bullets.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955
Search on Andrew Johnson in Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955 to see more photographs of the Johnson residence in Greeneville.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec29.html   (1864 words)

  
 1961 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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The Palace of Labour in (Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy) Turin, designed by (Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979)) Pier Luigi Nervi is completed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1961_in_architecture.htm   (153 words)

  
 Architecture
Art and Architecture Information about the various elements of a church, theology concerning church buildings and an architect gallery to assist you if you are considering a renovation or a new building
Renaissance and Baroque architecture The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.
Wooden Architecture of the Ukrainian Carpathians By Antin Varyvoda
www.shc.edu /theolibrary/architec.htm   (632 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - rococo, in architecture (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
rococo[rukO´kO, rO–] Pronunciation Key, style in architecture, especially in interiors and the decorative arts, which originated in France and was widely used in Europe in the 18th cent.
The term may be derived from the French words rocaille and coquille (rock and shell), natural forms prominent in the Italian baroque decorations of interiors and gardens.
During the 1660s and 1670s, the rococo competed with a more severely classical form of architecture, which triumphed with the accession of Louis XVI.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/rococo1.html   (393 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- Penn Station
AGBANY had galvanised the community into realising that the preservation of significant historical sites was too important to leave to the whims of commercial developers, or to the goodwill of politicians who were not bound by law to defer to the recommendations of historical protection bodies.
In 1962, when Laurel Lovrek of Cleveland was a freshman at Cooper Union School of Architecture, an early assignment was to go to Pennsylvania Station with her fellow students and draw what she saw.
With the east balcony free of Kodak's full-color sabotage, a new stair is planned to match the existing stair to the Vanderbilt Avenue balcony on the west, for access to restaurants in the underused balconies and mezzanine.
www.nyc-architecture.com /GON/GON004.htm   (6827 words)

  
 CPLA Collection - Masters' Projects in Landscape Architecture
Included here are projects completed by individual students, by groups of students in particular classes, and by the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois." 1.
This was a class project of the Landscape Architecture 450 course (Environmental Impact Statements), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1987.
www.library.uiuc.edu /cpx/collection/theses/mpla.htm   (3147 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
No architectural reference shelf is complete without Francis Ching's Architecture: Form, Space, Order (now in it's second and updated edition).
The Second Edition of this classic introduction to the principles of architecture is everything you would expect from the celebrated architect, author, and illustrator, Francis D. Ching.
Here, Ching examines every principal of architecture, juxtaposing images that span centuries and cross cultural boundaries to create a design vocabulary that is both elemental and timeless.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471286168?v=glance   (1221 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In the official lists in sections 6.2 - 6.10, an asterisk (*) next to a protocol denotes that it is new to this document or has been moved from one protocol level to another, or differs from the previous edition of this document.
While they may be proposed as a service protocol at a later stage, and thus become proposed standard, draft standard, and then standard protocols, the designation of a protocol as experimental may sometimes be meant to suggest that the protocol, although perhaps mature, is not intended for operational use.
Sometimes one protocol is replaced by another and thus becomes historic, or it may happen that a protocol on the standards track is in a sense overtaken by another protocol (or other events) and becomes historic (state 5).
www.ifla.org /documents/rfcs/rfc2200.txt   (5316 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)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
Eero Saarinen, considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, will be the focus of an exhibition and a symposium at Yale in upcoming weeks.
Five School of Architecture students have collaborated with the Manuscripts and Archives department in the Yale Library to create an exhibit about Saarinen's design of Ingalls Rink, utilizing the University's extensive collection of the architect's papers.
Topics will include the changing nature of architectural practice, the role of technology, stylistic plurality and questions about the genesis and meaning of form.
www.yale.edu /opa/v33.n20/story6.html   (707 words)

  
 Syllabus
Identify the way in which architectural precedents are used and or transformed as well as the purpose for referring to the past.
Kjell Zetterstrom, House and Settlement in Liberia [1970]
Iain Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism [1982]
arch.ced.berkeley.edu /courses/arch170/past/SP2001/syllabus.htm   (3947 words)

  
 MN Sharma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Invited by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to see the latest developments in the field of Architecture and Planning and give talks on Chandigarh to the professional institutions in various parts of the country.
FIRST INDIAN CHIEF ARCHITECT in the year 1965 after Le Corbusier and P Jeanneret, to shoulder the entire responsibility of Planning and Architecture for existing and future growth of the New City Chandigarh, and the entire State of Punjab.
For the first time, in the year 1961-62 contemporary architecture was introduced in the hilly regions of the State.
www.cperspectives.org /Invitees/mn_sharma.htm   (603 words)

  
 angermann2 » The Beatles of architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A x about AI, architecture, art, audio, brainstorm, cartography, computing, conference, default, ethnography, hacking, haptic, information design, location-awareness, mobile, mundane, retro, social, space-place, spatial, swarming, urban, walking, wearing, wi-fi, and stuff.
Ron Herron’s Walking City (the painting to your left) is one of the many concepts created by the architectural collective Archigram in the Sixties.
From next Saturday the exhibition Archigram experimental architecture 1961-1974 opens at the Design Museum in London.
angermann2.com /66   (280 words)

  
 American University Library - Celebrating the Peace Corps in Colombia, 1961-1981
In July 1961, programs were planned for Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, Chile, St. Lucia and Colombia.
The first group of Peace Corps Volunteers for the country, Colombia I (1961 – 1963), began training in May 1961, and left Washington, DC, in August 1961, for Colombia’s capital, Bogota.
From 1961 until 1981, over 3500 Peace Corps Volunteers and staff served in Colombia.
www.library.american.edu /about/exhibits/peace_corps.html   (954 words)

  
 Arcosanti : Media : Publication : Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Architecture Between the Idea and the Reality: A Comparative Study of Ecological Philosophy with the Architecture of Paolo Soleri San Luis Obispo, CA.: California Polytechnic State University/Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide.
Gray, C. Man and Architecture: The Highmindedness of Paolo Soleri.
The Relationship of the Arcological Architecture of Paolo Soleri to the Evolutionary Thought of Teilhard de Chardin Athens, OH.: Ohio University.
www.arcosanti.org /media/publication/soleriBibliography.html   (671 words)

  
 MCA Chicago - Past Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A common undercurrent in the production of culture during this time was the ambivalent representation of technology as a gloriously romanticized convenience or demonized harbinger of doom.
Their legacy has inspired works by such architects as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano and is considered the direct source for Rogers's and Piano's renowned Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 features hundreds of original drawings and sketches, more than a dozen scale models, and an integrated multi-media "arena" with slide projections, videos, music, and sound recordings.
www.mcachicago.org /mca/exhibit/past/archigram.html   (269 words)

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