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  Origins of Software Architecture Study
Although the term architecture is still used today in some communities to refer to the user view of a system, it isn't what is meant by software architecture, which refers to the structure of the system quite hidden from the user.
However, the notion of architecture as a common description of a class of systems -- i.e., an abstraction, where all the instantiations are said to exhibit the architecture -- endures, and is at the heart of the concept.
Work in software architecture can be seen as attempting to codify the commonality among members of a program family, so that the high-level design decisions inherent in each member of a program family need not be re-invented, re-validated, and re-described.
www.sei.cmu.edu /architecture/roots.html   (1086 words)

  
 Mali from Timbuktu to Washington >> Architecture Traditions
Examples of this architecture in cities are Djenné's famous mosque-the largest adobe building in the world-and its decorated houses, as well as the mausoleums and medieval mosques of Timbuktu (Tombouctou).
Rural adobe architecture is remarkable for its impressive earthen shrines, mosques, and houses.
Stonemasonry is practiced in the Dogon country, and its architectural forms mix stone, clay, and wood for houses, shrines, and walled enclosures.
www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival2003/mali_architecture.htm   (315 words)

  
 Luis Barragan
His architectural practice was in Guadalajara from 1927 until 1936 when he moved to Mexico City and remained until his death.
In his acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, he said, "It is impossible to understand Art and the glory of its history without avowing religious spirituality and the mythical roots that lead us to the very reason of being of the artistic phenomenon.
Architecture, indeed every profession at its most admirable, is a calling, a "vocation" in the root meaning of that ancient word.
www.pritzkerprize.com /barragan.htm   (2052 words)

  
 Neoclassical architecture
In architecture, neoclassicism was the dominant style in Europe during 1750s-1850s, marked by the imitation of Greco-Roman forms.
Classical architectural models were adapted or referenced in a range of architectural forms, including churches, arches, temple, house, terraces, garden monuments and interior designs.
The architectural impact of the Picturesque was the new emphasis it placed on architecture as part of an environment.
www.geocities.com /rr17bb/neoarch.html   (2405 words)

  
 Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design
Since it was beyond the scope of this research to investigate the relationship of spatial abilities to architectural performance, for the purposes of the present study it is assumed that spatial skills may be related (to some degree) to architectural tasks.
In architecture, it is likely that the advantage observed for experts on 2-dimensional comprehension of the plans is due, at least in part, to the systematic search processes which were guided by prior knowledge schemata, developed through extensive experience with architectural plans.
In the case of architecture, it is likely that experts develop knowledge acquisition processes, such as systematic and 3-dimensional search, to enable them to more efficiently and quickly about buildings from their plans.
wwwfaculty.arch.usyd.edu.au /kcdc/books/VR99/Gobert.html   (5654 words)

  
 Architecture Department | Study Abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beginning in 1980, the Architecture Department initiated a program that afforded architecture majors in the upper years an opportunity to study for a semester at the Temple University Rome campus.
The program is comprised of a six-credit studio course and a three-credit seminar; students choose their remaining one or two courses from a broad range of Japanese language and Asian Studies courses.
The joint Architecture/Urban Design curriculum at Temple University in Japan uses the rich architectural heritage of Japan - ancient, and contemporary - as the broad subject of its theory courses and its studio projects.
www.temple.edu /architecture/abroad.htm   (547 words)

  
 M/G Architecture
M/G Architecture is a partnership between Seattle architects Daniel Miles and Richard Glasman.
Each began practicing architecture in the mid-1980's and together have completed designs and master plans for religious institutions, private schools, golf course clubhouses, office buildings, exhibition space and single-family residences.
At M/G Architecture we pursue clear and simple design solutions that integrate structure, systems and materials to create compelling buildings that are a direct response to their owner and context.
www.mgarchitecture.net   (142 words)

  
 9/9/03, Chair of Architecture: Dr. Mertins - Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 3
Detlef Mertins, an architect, historian and critic known for his reinterpretations of modernism, was appointed chair of the department of architecture and professor of architecture in the School of Design effective July 1.
Mertins practiced architecture and urban design for nine years with Baird/Sampson, Jones and Kirkland and on his own, and in 1996 he completed his doctorate at Princeton University with the dissertation, Transparencies Yet to Come: Sigfried Giedion and the Prehistory of Architectural Modernity.
Mertins came to Penn from the University of Toronto, where he received his bachelor of architecture degree in 1980, and has taught in that faculty of architecture, landscape and design since 1991, and held a Canada Research Chair in Architecture since 2001.
www.upenn.edu /almanac/v50/n03/mertins.html   (340 words)

  
 ARS285: Introduction to Architecture
Excellent survey articles on major art and architecture movements, the art and architecture of countries and regions, and the life and work of individual artists and architects (e.g., Andrea Palladio, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius).
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts including architecture, planning, interior design, and furnishings providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world.
Covering architecture and related fields such as planning, landscape architecture, and interior design Avery Index provides regular access to approximately 1,000 periodicals from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
www.smith.edu /libraries/research/class/ars285gs_sp05.htm   (563 words)

  
 . : The Catalytic City
In my view, we need to adopt a self-consciously critical interventionist attitude towards the miasma of the megalopolis irrespective of any environmental legislation that may or may not be brought to bear on the problem over the long haul.
He is an architect and architectural historian educated at the Architectural Association in London and has worked as an architect in England, Israel and the United States.
He is currently the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.
www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/1433   (897 words)

  
 The History Of Computers During My Lifetime - The 1980's
IBM's decision to use the x86 architecture was widely criticized, and lead to the PC and its descendants facing many problems that other machines didn't face, mainly because of the x86's segmented memory model.
In somewhat of an irony, however, pipeline interlocks had to be added back into the architecture five years later (1991) for the third generation MIPS processor, the R4000 (actually, even the R2000 had interlocks for the HI/LO register pair used by the multi-cycle multiply and divide instructions).
The idea was to make the architecture open to encourage multiple sourcing and lively competition which would hopefully spur performance and spread the SPARC standard far and wide.
www.pattosoft.com.au /jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers/1980s.html   (5689 words)

  
 eNews 03.25.2005 UT-Austin School of Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
LTL (http://Www.LTLwork.net/) is dedicated to exploring the inventive possibilities of architecture through a close examination of the conventional and the overlooked.
After graduating from the School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, where he was swim team captain, president of his fraternity, recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi medal for outstanding leadership, and foreman of The Cowboys, Mr.
Barnes was known within the architectural community as a rare breed of artist/businessman, blending both beauty and function together to create his own unique style.
web.austin.utexas.edu /architecture/enews/archive/2005-03-25   (4494 words)

  
 Green Design Conference 2002: Environmental Thinking
James Wines has lectured on the subject of architecture and environmental design for more than 500 academic insititutions, professional conferences, and corporate meetings in 32 countries.
He is the winner of 25 architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, environmental art, and exhibit design awards, including the 1995 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation.
Wines' keynote speech was entitled "Environmental Thinking," and explored his experiences with green architectural design, including SITE's current involvement as one of the firms proposing a plan for the new World Trade Center.
www.engr.psu.edu /sts/greendesign/envthnk.htm   (137 words)

  
 :: Adamstein & Demetriou :: Architecture & Design ::
In May of 2000, she was elected The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, one of the highest honors the Institute can bestow.
Olvia is a registered architect with over twenty years of architectural and interior design experience and has received personal acclaim for her design talents.
Theodore Adamstein graduated from The Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1980.
www.ad-architects.com /about-p.html   (302 words)

  
 1980 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tallinn TV Tower in Tallinn, Estonia is completed for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
The Vilnius TV Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania is completed on the last day of the year.
Architecture Firm Award - Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_in_architecture   (124 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1980 in architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
See also: 1979 in architecture, other events of 1980, 1981 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
1980 U.S. Presidential Debate - October 28 (Source)
1980 U.S. Presidential Debate - September 21 (Source)
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/1980_in_architecture.html   (53 words)

  
 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) seeks to advance the status of women practitioners in the architecture professions.
At present, BWAF focuses on expanding the knowledge about and recognition of women's contributions to architecture in the United States during the period 1950-1980.
To support through a variety of outreach programs the constituencies of women in architecture and related fields disadvantaged because of race, ethnicity, nationality or sexual orientation.
www.beverlywillisarchitecturefoundation.org   (131 words)

  
 UW Press: Search Books in Print
Building a Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980 presents a picture of Chinese architecture in transition, as the entire economy shifted from being planned and state-controlled to being market-led.
Through this book on modern Chinese architecture, the reader will appreciate the influence of globalization and modernization on the most populous country in the world.
Charlie Q. Xue has practiced architecture in China and the U.S. and taught at Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Texas at San Antonio, and City University of Hong Kong.
www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/XUEBUI.html   (352 words)

  
 Chihuly Glass in Architecture 1972-1980
They mixed blown, cast, assembled, and mosaic glass for these pieces and used writing and linear drawings to animate some of their surfaces, but their most interesting designs for doors and windows were non-pictorial and composed of geometric shapes.
These architectural projects were the last series that Chihuly and Carpenter pursued together.
Their collaboration was the most sustained and formal of Chihuly's career, though both artists have continued to work with architecture, and Chihuly has completed numerous large-scale commissions since the early 1980s.
www.chihuly.com /installations/early/glass_arch01.html   (614 words)

  
 Design Experimenting in Knowledge Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In this online course, the emphasis reading architectural literature in the area of design as well as educational literature in the area of design experimentation.
Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World Held in Amman, Jordan, May 4-7, 1980.
Serageldin, I. „The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: The Anatomy of an Approach to Promoting Architectural Excellence in Nanji, A. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Building for Tomorrow.
archnet.org /courses/knowledge.html   (1368 words)

  
 Penn State College of Arts and Architecture | News
Robert Fenza, chief operating officer of Liberty Property Trust in Malvern, Pennsylvania, was the recipient of the 2002 Alumni Achievement Award from the Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture.
A 1980 graduate with a bachelorÕs of philosophy degree, majoring in landscape architecture and real estate, Fenza focuses on planning and development that is fiscally, socially and environmentally sound.
He also sponsored the Carmen C. Fenza Memorial Landscape Architecture Scholarship at Penn State.
www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu /news/2002/may/07_fenza.html   (119 words)

  
 American Architecture - Twentieth Century - 1980 to 1989 - Great Buildings Online
Putterman House, by Hugh Newell Jacobsen, at Central Pennsylvania, 1980.
Thorncrown Chapel, by Fay Jones, at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1980.
Wellesley Fire Station, by Schwartz/Silver, at Wellesley, Massachusetts, circa 1980.
www.greatbuildings.com /types/usa/usa_1980-1989.html   (485 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
7th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture %D May 1980 %P 31-36 %T A Concept for Test and Reconfiguration of a Fault-Tolerant VLSI Processor System %A K.E. Grosspietsch %A J. Kaiser %A E. Nett %J Proc.
7th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture %D May 1980 %P 308-316 %T Hardware-Measurements of Storage Access Conflicts in the Processor Array EGPA %A Uwe Hercksen %A Rainer Klar %A Wolfgang Kleinoder %J Proc.
7th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture %D May 1980 %P 317-324 %T A High-Level Multi-Lingual Multiprocessor KMP %A Mario Tokoro %A Klichiro Tamaru %A Masaaki Mizuno %A Masao Hori %J Proc.
www.cs.wisc.edu /~arch/www/ISCAbib/isca07   (1202 words)

  
 GALVESTON.COM: David Mullican, Architect
David Mullican studied at the University of Kentucky College of Architecture where he received a five year Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1980.
During the summer of 1980 David studied in Europe.
During the master program special emphasis was placed on experimental architecture in harsh environments.
www.galveston.com /mullican/print/default.asp   (111 words)

  
 American Cultural History - 1980-1989
Prisons overflowed and violent crime rates which, in 1980, had tripled since 1960, continued to climb with the appearance of crack in 1985.
Architecture in detail, an examination of the building with photos, drawings and discussion.
A 1980 study by UCLA and American Council on Education indicated that college freshmen were more interested in status, power, and money than at any time during the past 15 years.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade80.html   (2950 words)

  
 MSU News: Students honored by MSU architecture college
The honor was established in 1996 by the Jackson architectural firm for which it is named.
[Tau Sigma Delta is the national honor society of architecture and allied arts; the Bronze Medal recognizes the student whose final year of design work "most contributed to the expansion of architectural insight and awareness" among classmates.
[The AIA Adams Medal recognizes "general excellence in architecture" and is the highest award presented to a bachelor's degree candidate by the college faculty.
www.msstate.edu /web/media/detail.php?id=2146   (1764 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   (1766 words)

  
 International-style Architecture
Except for houses, completely dominated American architecture from the 1950s through the late 1970s.
This (anti-) style epitomized the height of the modern movement in the United States and Europe.
Commercial architecture became increasingly important form of public relations: the building provides an image for a company.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~twp/architecture/international   (609 words)

  
 AIA, Pasadena & Foothill Chapter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Recipient of the 1980 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, Luis Barragán has long been recognized as the spiritual father of modern Architecture in México.
During his 62 year career as an architect, City planner and landscape designer, Barragán was instrumental in developing and reformulating the ideology and formal language of Modern Mexican Architecture.
The true legacy of Barragán, lies in his masterful creation of an architecture of poetry and mystery.
aiapf.org /content.asp?contentid=585   (427 words)

  
 Cooper Union School of Architecture: Exhibitions: Spectral Emanations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He then went on to receive an MFA in 1954 from Yale University, where he was a student of Josef Albers as well as Stuart Davis, Burgoyne Diller and Ad Reinhardt.
He was subsequently invited to teach at the University of Texas at Austin, joining late Cooper Union architecture dean John Hejduk, Rowe and Bernhard Hoesli in forging a radical new approach to architectural education.
He taught in the School of Architecture until 1980, and then in the School of Art for another ten years.
www.cooper.edu /architecture/exhibitions/spectral.html   (300 words)

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