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  Modern Architecture - Search View - MSN Encarta
Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright.
As the 20th century began they believed it was necessary to invent an architecture that expressed the spirit of a new age and would surpass the styles, materials, and technologies of earlier architecture.
He attributed his new architectural concepts to educational building blocks he had played with as a child, to Japanese architecture, and to the prairie landscape on which many of his houses were built.
encarta.msn.com /text_761595616__1/Modern_Architecture.html   (8151 words)

  
 Technology Education - Architecture
The characteristics that distinguish a work of architecture from other man-made structures are (1) the suitability of the work to use by human beings in general and the adaptability of it to particular human activities; (2) the stability and permanence of the work's construction; and (3) the communication of experience and ideas through its form.
This section of the article is concerned with architectural typology, with the role of society in determining the kinds of architecture, and with planning--the role of the architect in adapting designs to particular uses and to the general physical needs of human beings.
Architectural ornament in the 19th century exemplified the common tendency for mimetic ornament, in all times and places, to turn into mere applied decoration, lacking either symbolic meaning or reference to the structure on which it is placed.
www.geocities.com /tech_ed_2000/industrial/design/architecture.htm   (18551 words)

  
 Japanese architecture - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-japan-arc.html   (1156 words)

  
 Architecture Organizations
The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to cultivating the public's understanding of architecture and the human experience.
Headquartered at the historic Octagon, America's oldest museum devoted to architecture, the AAF initiates education and outreach efforts which foster public participation in the design process, encourage public stewardship of America's architectural heritage, and promotes alliances between architects and the communities in which they live and practice.
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. (ARCC) is an international consortium of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of research culture and infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines.
www.architect.org /links/architecture_organizations.html   (1135 words)

  
 CHINESE ARCHITECTURE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
As early as the neolithic period, a basic principle of Chinese architecture was already established, wherein columns spaced at intervals, rather than walls, provided the support for the roof.
Through the T’ang and Sung dynasties, Chinese architecture retained the basic characteristics already developed in the Han, although there was a greater technical mastery and a tendency toward rich adornment and complexity of the system of bracketing.
Though little survives of the wooden structures, our knowledge of their appearance comes from detailed representations in painted scrolls, especially by the Li school of artists in the T’ang period and their followers (see Chinese art).
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ch/Chines-arc.html   (900 words)

  
 The von Neumann Architecture of Computer Systems
Any discussion of computer architectures, of how computers and computer systems are organized, designed, and implemented, inevitably makes reference to the "von Neumann architecture" as a basis for comparison.
The expectations for the fifth generation systems seem to require that substantially new architectures be evolved, and that both hardware and software be freed from the limitations of the von Neumann architecture [Sharp 1985].
It is an improvement in the implementation, not in the architecture.
www.csupomona.edu /~hnriley/www/VonN.html   (2303 words)

  
 SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1963
We propose an architecture that integrates the on-line acquisition and exploitation of monitoring and diagnostic knowledge.
The focus of the paper is on the component of the architecture that discovers classes of behaviors with similar characteristics by observing a system in operation.
We set up a framework for developing well-integrated systems, and an architecture for the core components of a `shell.' We use a complex but sparse class structure that allows for composition of elementary units into structures of arbitrary complexity.
www.spie.org /web/abstracts/1900/1963.html   (5449 words)

  
 NIE 73.2 Summer 2001
Led by associate architecture professor Kay Bea Jones, students from the Knowlton School of Architecture studied in Italy for 10 weeks in spring quarter.
George Acock, a 1963 OSU architecture graduate, joined the students in Rome for two weeks to help them develop their watercolor skills, which they put to use in studio and independent projects.
Piano is known for such masterworks of architecture as the Pompidou Center in Paris (with Richard Rogers), the Lingotto Factory, and the Kansai Airport Terminal.
www.eng.ohio-state.edu /nie/nie732/732_KSA.html   (470 words)

  
 ACHA - American College of Healthcare Architects
James is a former Professor of Architecture, U.C. Berkeley and University College London.
The center’s architecture is inspired by the historic brick architecture in Reno and the colors of the surrounding foothills.
In keeping with current trends and the desires of women across the country, the project met the challenge to create a timeless atmosphere of home and comfort, where a woman can feel secure that she has access to the finest health care for herself and her baby.
www.healtharchitects.org /locator/mem_profile.cfm?member_id=167   (352 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- Penn Station
In 1963, one of New York City's finest buildings was demolished to make way for a new $116M sports arena and entertainment complex.
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.
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)

  
 CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE (01H:151)---Spring 1999
The vocabulary of classical architecture will be a point of focus in the early weeks, with special attention devoted to the development, meaning, and syntax of the orders.
In the lectures on the history of architectural theory considerable emphasis will be given to the renewed interest in Vitruvius's ancient treatise on architecture and the interpretations of it in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions and commentaries, as well as to the new concepts introduced in the independent treatises of Alberti, Serlio, Vignola, and Palladio.
The second portion of the course will be devoted to the foremost practitioners of classical architecture in the Italian Renaissance--Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Palladio--and their seventeenth-century successors, focusing on their attempts to formulate, test, and expand the rules of classical design.
www.uiowa.edu /~c01h151/CLASARCH.htm   (1506 words)

  
 Mount Athos: Architecture
All the katholika (the main churches of the monasteries) are built in the same architectural style, being triconchal cross-in-square structures.
The architecture of the monastery boathouses is particularly interesting, and they usually have a protective tower.
Theocharidis, ‘The Architecture of Simonopetra’, Simonopetra, 1991, pp.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Athos/General/AthosArchitecture.html   (1276 words)

  
 UTSOA: ARC 350R/386M Course Description: Fall 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
However, it lacks a relational structure within which the parts are set to the different conceptual and physical wholes so as to render a comprehensive matrix that mirrors the scope of architecture.
Thereafter, research in methods of description in architecture led, amongst other directions, to Steadman and March's development towards a Shape Grammar.
Here, the goal was to use the principle of the module (a triangle) to map the surface of a form as an analogue, using matrixes to determine the position within a three-dimensional network.
www.utexas.edu /architecture/courses/fall2005/detail.php?cid=350wan05f   (1600 words)

  
 The School of Architecture, MSU-Bozeman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Professor Ferd Johns is a native Virginian who wandered into architectural school in 1967 after a short but intense career as a Naval officer.
Architecture quickly became (and still remains) his passion and pleasure, with sailing coming in a not-too distant second.
His areas of specialty include architectural and urban design, storytelling, typing with one finger, and talking.
www.montana.edu /wwwdt/arch/faculty/johns.html   (163 words)

  
 Today in History: October 21
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955
The Guggenheim Museum houses one of the world's largest collections of modern and contemporary art including works by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976), French painter and printmaker Marc Chagall (1879-1940), and Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940).
The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is the work of two architectural photographers, Samuel L. Gottscho (1875-1971) and William H Schleisner (1912-1962).
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/oct21.html   (1055 words)

  
 Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 09/29/03 - Allen reshaping architecture school with an open approach to new ideas
Princeton NJ -- When nine graduate students at the School of Architecture walked into their first design class at Princeton this fall, Dean Stan Allen was sitting at the head of the table, poised to start the first lesson.
One of Stan Allen's priorities as dean of the School of Architecture is to connect the theoretical with the practical.
As an example, Allen cited a conference being held this fall titled "Architecture and Public Policy: A Symposium in Honor of Robert Gutman," which is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/03/0929/1b.shtml   (1691 words)

  
 Yale School of Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He received a Stone Lion (First Prize) for his Romeo and Juliet project at the Third International Architectural Biennale in Venice in 1985, and was one of only two architects selected to represent the United States at the Fifth International Venice exhibition in 1991.
He is the first Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City, and is currently also the Louis Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale.
Eisenman holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge.
www.architecture.yale.edu /faculty/visiting/eisenman/eisenman.htm   (420 words)

  
 Architecture
More than 3,000 members worldwide form the Architectural Association, which was formed in the mid-19th century as a learned society founded in the pursuit of architectural learning.
Her innovative approach incorporates a thorough understanding of the perceptual, behavioral and psychological effects of light with extensive experience in landscape, architectural and fine art lighting.
IJAC is committed to deepening the understanding of the foundations of digital systems for architectural design and the technologies enabling their development and application." to find out more...
architectureyp.blogspot.com   (4644 words)

  
 mra architecture - our firm
MRA Architecture is a progressive, design-oriented architectural, interiors and planning firm located in Rochester, New York.
As president of MRA Architecture, Martin Rose has the overall responsibility of a multi-disciplined architectural firm that is known for its creative approach to architectural design, responsiveness, and direct Owner-to-Architect relationship.
University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Architecture, 1963 - studied with Louis I. Kahn)
www.mraarchitecture.com /ourfirm.html   (608 words)

  
 MIT Architecture: Jan Wampler Profile
Wampler received his B.S. in Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1963 and a M.A.U.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1964.
Wampler was elected to the College of Fellows of the AIA, and in 1999 he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the ACSA.
These include: "La Puntilla," Progressive Architecture; "L'Emprette," L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, May/June 1975; "Boston Architecture", Andrea Leers and Alex Krieger, A&U, V. 222, March, 1989; "Thinking the City" exhibition; "Designing for Special Populations," Architecture, January, 1987; "A Village in a House," Space and Society, June 1984.
architecture.mit.edu /people/profiles/prwamplr.html   (295 words)

  
 About | College of Architecture, Planning & Design
Kansas State University’s College of Architecture and Design was established in 1963 by bringing together into one administrative unit the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Construction Science, Interior Architecture, and Regional and Community Planning.
This combination of design and planning received national attention as a model organization for education in the design, planning, and management of the environment.
Today, the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design continues to be a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, environmental design school with accredited professional programs in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and regional and community planning.
capd.ksu.edu /about   (406 words)

  
 Architecture Radio
Tolla and Lignano were both born and raised in Naples, Italy, in 1964 and 1963.
They studied architecture at University of Naples School of Architecture, both earning a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design in 1989.
They continued their studies aboard at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where both received research fellowships for post-graduate study in 1990.
www.architecture-radio.org /learn/public/20060213-LOTEK   (211 words)

  
 Richard Meier - The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) :: arcspace.com
A retrospective of the work of American architect Richard Meier is currently at The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) until April 15th, 2001.
The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the installation was specially designed by Richard Meier for the NAI Main Room.
Meier embarked on his architecture career in 1963, with a house for his parents in Essex Fells, New Jersey.
www.arcspace.com /architects/meier/meier_nai/index.html   (655 words)

  
 Description | ntroduction to Architecture | Professor Joseph Connors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
A survey of western architecture from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century.
The fulcrum gradually shifts to western Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and finally moves to the trans-Atlantic dialogue between Europe and America from the late 18th century to the postwar and postmodern periods.
Write a lively five-page essay on how the principles of classical architecture outlined by Summerson can be applied to any of the Renaissance and baroque architects considered in the course.
www.learn.columbia.edu /introarch/descript.html   (940 words)

  
 1963 - Webled.com
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 Architecture (The Nation, February 16, 1963)
The article focuses on the architecture of the Museum of Modern Art at the New York City, designed and constructed by the famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
The exhibition of photographs of his work at the museum is made up of scores of color transparencies of buildings, enlarged and mounted on the fronts of individually lighted boxes, which are then arranged in an artful way across the first floor rear of the museum.
It was an isolated moment in architectural history.
www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13210701   (164 words)

  
 The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project: Bertrand Goldberg
"I think...the difference between regarding architecture as the design of art objects as pure design [is] in a sense unrelated to the way in which the building will be used.
In a sense, the building is a comment, a statement, a mirror of the way each person in that building will reach out and either surround himself with that space or touch the space or remodel the space....I don't see buildings being divorced from the people inside the buildings or outside the buildings even.
Architectural drawings from Bertrand Goldberg and Associates may be consulted by appointment in the Department of Architecture; job files, photographs, slides, speeches, publications, and other records of the firm are housed in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives.
www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/caohp/goldberg.html   (375 words)

  
 1962 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1961 in architecture, other events of 1962, 1963 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
Coventry Cathedral in England, designed by Basil Spence is completed.
Architecture Firm Award - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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