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  1977 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1976 in architecture, other events of 1977, 1978 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
January 31 - The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, is opened.
The Language of Postmodern Architecture by Charles Jencks is published.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1977_in_architecture   (200 words)

  
 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The purpose of the student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects is to bring together the landscape architecture students to combine their interests and efforts, to extend their knowledge of the profession of landscape architecture, and to help advance the profession while preparing for a professional career.
All students enrolled in the School of Architecture are required to supply, by the beginning of the second semester of the second year, a personal computer matching or exceeding a specification issued by faculty.
Architecture students taking the math placement exam must have scored 13 in algebra and 7 in trigonometry to be eligible for Architectural Design I and II and MATH 2043 or 2053.
www.uark.edu /admin/urelinfo/CatalogofStudies/OLD_CATALOGS/01-02/arch/Default.html   (4532 words)

  
 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Home Page
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, established in 1977 by His Highness the Aga Khan, recognises examples of architectural excellence that encompass contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environmental issues.
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks out the broadest possible range of architectural interventions: contemporary design projects and those demonstrating the use of appropriate technologies are considered, as are restoration and social efforts.
In addition to submitting photographs, slides and architectural drawings, architects are asked to complete a detailed questionnaire pertaining to use, cost, environmental and climatic factors, construction materials, building schedule, structural integrity and ongoing maintenance, and, more importantly, design concepts and each project's significance within its own context.
www.akdn.org /agency/aktc_akaa.html   (1970 words)

  
 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture.
Its method is to seek out and recognize examples of architectural excellence encompassing concerns as varied as contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, reuse, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environment issues.
In addition to submitting photographs, slides and architectural drawings, architects are asked to complete a detail questionnaire to use, cost, environmental and climate factors, construction materials, building schedule and more importantly, design concepts and each project's significance within its own context.
www.caroun.com /Architecture/AgaKhan/AgaKhan.html   (1794 words)

  
 ODYSSEY/Greece
Architecture is the way that the buildings around us look and function.
Notice the architecture of local banks, churches, government buildings, and offices.
Classical architecture is based on human proportions, and some think it is still the most beautiful way to relate people to their buildings and communities.
carlos.emory.edu /ODYSSEY/GREECE/Architecture.html   (320 words)

  
 Special Programs :: Graduate Studies :: Architecture Program :: CoA :: GaTech
Since 1977, the Architecture Program has operated an urban design workshop which offers students course credit or research involvement in contemporary planning and urban development issues at multiple scales throughout the city of Atlanta and metropolitan region.
The curriculum is comprised of the core requirements for each of the two professional programs and, in addition, a set of joint requirements that focus upon urban design as the common ground linking the theory and practice of the two disciplines.
The Architecture Program participates in a College-wide continuing education program, presenting a wide range of intensive courses and workshops for Georgia Tech graduates and other design professionals.
www.coa.gatech.edu /arch/grad/special.php   (326 words)

  
 100 Best Architecture Books
This selection of architecture books attempts to represent the best Western buildings and architects in proportion to their merit.
Books that are more about history than architecture have been omitted as belonging more to the category of history than to architectural history.
Gene Waddell is an architectural historian; College Archivist, College of Charleston; and author of Charleston Architecture, 1670-1860 (Charleston:  Wyrick and Co., 2004).
www.cofc.edu /~waddelle/ArchitectureBookList2.htm   (1548 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek Calendar - Events - Design and Building
Since 1977 Pamphlet Architecture has served as an alternative to the mainstream architectural press, and has helped launch the careers of some of today's most influential architects including Steven Holl, Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, and Neil Denari.
These modest, affordable publications have contributed immeasurably to architectural discourse for almost thirty years, producing continuous, vigorous debate and critical discussion on a wide range of architectural themes.
In 2004 Pamphlet Architecture remains a unique forum for architects, designers, theorists, urbanists, and landscape architects to publish their designs, theories, ideas, and hopes for the future of the designed and built world.
www.architectureweek.com /cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?id=9730   (217 words)

  
 Architecture Design Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A native of Pittsburgh, Marleen Davis received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1977 from Cornell University, and a Master of Architecture, with Distinction, from Harvard University in 1979.
In 1994 when the University of Tennessee named her as Dean of the College of Architecture and Design, Marleen Davis was the fifth woman ever appointed to a deanship of an American architecture program.
Dean Davis is the first dean in over a quarter of a century to maintain full accreditation for the professional architecture program during her tenure.
www.arch.utk.edu /faculty_architecture/faculty_davism.html   (533 words)

  
 Chairman's Award to Geoffrey Bawa - Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1999-2001
Surprisingly, however, his architecture is not well known outside the region, and has not received the international attention it deserves.
In 1951 he was apprenticed to H H Reid, the sole surviving partner of the Colombo architectural practice Edwards, Reid and Begg.
Abstract references to traditional Sri Lankan and South Indian architecture were incorporated within a Modernist framework to create a powerful image of democracy, cultural harmony, continuity and progress and a sense of gentle monumentality.
www.akdn.org /agency/akaa/eighthcycle/bawa.htm   (1486 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates
Williams has a seasoned foundation in the practice of architecture beginning with over six years as an associate in the office of Richard Meier before starting his own practice.
Billie Tsien is on the boards of the Architectural League, the Public Art Fund, the American Academy in Rome and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Tod Williams is on the advisory board of the School of Architecture at Princeton.
www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-WilliamsTsien.htm   (748 words)

  
 Gavriela Nussbaum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
1977 - 1980 at Alrod architects firm Elementary school in Yavne, Ramat Ilan commercial center, Herzelia comprehensive school, Natbag 2000 master plan for the future airport.
1977 Award in a competition for the design of pavillions fo rthe mediterranean coast arranged by Beautiful Israel company.
Judge in competition for civic center in Ashdod and for an education center in Modiin.
www.designshare.com /members/bio.asp?pk=10514   (436 words)

  
 1977 - Search Results - MSN Encarta
United States, Aerospace, Afghanistan, Africa, Agriculture, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Angola, Archaeology, Architecture,...
There was both good news and bad for the aerospace industry in 1977.
President Jimmy Carter's scheduled visit to Africa in November and then-Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny's trip in March, as well as the much-publicized appearances by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, and a host of other diplomatic luminaries,...
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=1977   (151 words)

  
 Press Releases -- NJIT America's "Most Wired" Public University
She graduated from Smith College in 1974 with a degree in art history and later received a Master’s of Architecture from MIT, where she taught interdisciplinary courses in the architecture department.
In addition to overseeing the practice as a whole over the past 26 years, she has been responsible for numerous architectural and planning projects, primarily for educational and arts-related institutions.
NJSOA is one of the largest degree accredited architecture schools in the U.S. granting both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture, the only architecture school in New Jersey offering the bachelor’s degree in architecture, and a national leader in the integration into the studio curriculum of computer-aided design (CAD).
www.njit.edu /v2/News/Releases/412.html   (588 words)

  
 Top 10,000 cited articles in Computer Science published in 1977 [CiteSeer.Continuity; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, ...
Context 91 [16] J. Lenstra, A. Rinnooy Kan and P. Brucker, 1977.
Context 68 [3] M. Garey and D. Johnson, The rectilinear Steiner tree problem is NP-complete, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 32 (1977), pp.
Context 51 J. Barwise, ed., 1977, Handbook of Mathematical Logic, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /articles1977.html   (2857 words)

  
 BU Libraries | Research Guides | Architecture
Other bibliographies on aspects of architecture can be found by searching the Boston University Online Catalog.
A standardized architectural vocabulary is published in the Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online by the Getty Art History Information Program (XZ 695.1 A7 A76 1990).
Architectural design terms arranged alphabetically in English with corresponding words in the other four languages.
www.bu.edu /library/guides/architect.html   (2167 words)

  
 Authors on Islamic Art & Architecture
Sheila Blair was born in 1948 in Montreal, studied art history and sociology and gained a doctorate in art history and Near Eastern studies at Harvard.
In 1977 he curated one of the largest exhibitions of Persian miniature painting ever held.
IAORG website is dedicated to Islamic architecture, and contains illustrated descriptions and reviews of a large number of monuments, mosques, palaces and schools.
www.islamicarchitecture.org /shop/authors-books-us.html   (1292 words)

  
 UVa School of Architecture | Dora Wiebenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wiebenson taught Architectural History at the School of Architecture from 1977 until 1992.
She occupied a number of significant positions in the department, including serving as Chair for many years, as well as directing the doctoral program.
Wiebenson served as the chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians Education Committee, and stands strongly for the view that architectural history is a vital topic for both architecture and art history departments.
www.arch.virginia.edu /faculty/DoraWiebenson   (101 words)

  
 Gothic Art and Architecture - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
Introduction to the art and architecture of the period.
Well-illustrated survey of a full range of European sculpture of the period.
Introduction to the illuminated manuscripts of Western Europe; for younger readers.
encarta.msn.com /readings_761562615/Gothic_Art_and_Architecture.html   (217 words)

  
 Yale School of Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She is on the board of the Public Art Fund, the Architectural League, and the American Academy in Rome.
He studied Architecture at Cambridge University in 1966 and received his Master of Fine Arts and Architecture from Princeton in 1967.
Williams has served on the Architectural Advisory Committee for Princeton University, the New York City and National AIA Awards Committees, and as Director of The Architectural League.
www.architecture.yale.edu /faculty/visiting/williams_tsien/williams_tsien.htm   (732 words)

  
 Barber Architecture firm history
He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree with Honors from Ohio University where he received the American Institute of Architects Outstanding Senior Award and the Alpha Rho Chi Medal.
He received a demonstration grant from the Federal Government in 1974, when he was designer and project architect for the nation's first active solar-heated city hall.
In 1977, he authored the winning entry in a national design competition for a 300,000-square-foot county justice and detention center in Colorado's Jefferson County.
www.barberarchitecture.com /firmhistory.htm   (242 words)

  
 OSU Architecture Family Members Sweep Leadership Awards
They were: leadership as head of the OSU School of Architecture; a long history of innovation in architectural education through studio and classroom instruction; internationally recognized reputation as an important educator and scholar; national leadership in continuing education; and early advocacy and leadership of Intern Development Programs (IDP).
Between 1977 and 1985, Bryant helped reestablish the OSU School of Architecture as a national leader in architecture education.
His efforts there were acknowledged in 1986 by architecture alumni who voted him the teacher who was most influential in shaping their lives.
www2.okstate.edu /pio/archfamily.html   (633 words)

  
 Geometry in Art & Architecture Unit 7
They consist of dissertations on a wide variety of subjects relating to architecture, engineering, sanitation, practical hydraulics, acoustic vases, and the like.
In addition to underlying the ratios in some Roman buildings, this figure is often used for architectural decoration.
"The Square and the Roman House: Architecture and Decoration at Pompeii and Herculaneum," in Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics, Kim Williams, ed.
www.dartmouth.edu /~matc/math5.geometry/unit7/unit7.html   (1850 words)

  
 Women and Architecture
Architecture and Women: A Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers, and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States.
Keyword Searches can be helpful to locate a chapter on a specific woman architect or women in architecture that may be included in a volume on many architects.
This journal is devoted to evaluating and featuring architecture designed by or for women.
library.nevada.edu /arch/rsrce/resguide/archwom.html   (1757 words)

  
 MIT Architecture: Michael Dennis Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Architecture and Urbanism, March, 1989 (CMU & Clark House)
Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and the Graham Foundation, 1986).
"Architecture and the Postmodern City," Cornell Journal of Architecture 1, 1981.
architecture.mit.edu /prtfolio/fac_work/pjdennis.html   (394 words)

  
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1977 - "Garden Arrangements", performed at the Auditory of the Panamanian Museum of Mankind, June 7.
1977 - Landscape Plan for Parks in the Old City of Panama, by the program of Restoration by the IPAT, design of: - Cathedral Park, -Bolivar Square, - France Square, -Herrera Square, on the "The Hand of the Tiger".
Architecture of the Three America, 27 - 28 March.
architecture.arizona.edu /landscape/tejido/cv_aa.htm   (2034 words)

  
 Recommended books: Architecture and art
Page one
Architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present: 89 essays on 117 treatises
The history of architecture in India: from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Raj
Payne, Alina A. The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance: architectural invention, ornament and literary culture
www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Reference/Library_623.html   (1247 words)

  
 agrest, diana
Architecture from without : theoretical framings for a critical practice.
(1977).” In Theorizing a new agenda for architecture : an anthology of architectural theory
ARO; and Hanrahan and Meyers, are designing houses and using them as laboratories for architecture.
www.ccny.cuny.edu /library/Divisions/Architecture/Agrest.html   (224 words)

  
 Basic Library for Architecture Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is a suggested basic architectural library for students.
I find this to be the most interesting and indepth architectural history book available.
Examples of Architectural Form, Space and Order presented in examples from architectural history to modern day.
www.architectstore.com /books/student1.htm   (388 words)

  
 Cooper Union School of Architecture: Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Professor Knox received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture degrees from The Cooper Union (1970, 1975) and his Masters of Architecture from Harvard University (1976).
Professor Knox is a registered architect and has taught in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture since 1977, as a Visiting Critic at City College (1980 to present), and was a visiting Professor at SUNY Purchase in 1982.
His recent work includes: Proposal for Rebuilding WTC (2002); Moorish Influences in Gothic Architecture (2000); Vesica Pisces and the Pointed Arch (1999); Caravaggio (1998); UN-City: 600 Acre East River Project (1997).
www.cooper.edu /architecture/faculty/faculty/knox.html   (146 words)

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