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  The School of Architecture
Architecture was first taught at what is now The University of Texas at Arlington in the early 1940s as a two-year, non-degree program within the School of Engineering.
Architecture and landscape architecture are seen as both the means and the goal of the education we offer.
Architecture was seen, after all, as one of the essential liberal arts during the Renaissance.
www.uta.edu /gradcatalog/architecture   (933 words)

  
 Richard Meier
Architecture is vital and enduring because it contains us; it describes space, space we move through, exit in and use.
In this realm architecture, gardens, furniture and even the manner of living form a highly tensioned spatial integrity Most people would agree that the Acropolis in Athens, Fatehpur-Sikri in Agra, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto are examples of this idealized relationship.
An architectural gem outlives its age only when it is the confident and passionate manifestation of a concept unique to its culture.
www.pritzkerprize.com /meier.htm   (1881 words)

  
 1984 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
(additional info and facts about other events of 1984) other events of 1984,
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Neue Staatsgalerie in (A city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture) Stuttgart, designed by (additional info and facts about James Stirling) James Stirling opens to the public.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1984_in_architecture.htm   (146 words)

  
 Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
She edited Architectural History 1999/2000: A Special Issue of JSAH (1999), and is the author of Architecture or Revolution: Charles Moore and Yale in the late 1960s (2001) as well as numerous articles on 19th and 20th century architecture, the city, photography and other issues in architectural representation.
She is the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians from 1997-2000, Blau was Curator of Exhibitions and Publications at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1984-1990, and Adjunct Curator, 1991-2001.
Hays received the Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976, the Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT in 1990.
www.gsas.harvard.edu /programs/degree/archtect.html   (4457 words)

  
 Mathematics in Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although my interest in the study of math in architecture has existed for several years, the organization of my ideas on the subject, as well as my confidence in its validity, were crystallized during the summer of 1994, while in Paris attending the XIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics.
I had the opportunity to explore the architecture of this vibrant city and found it to be replete with extraordinary examples of geometry, proportion, and symmetry.
The interdisciplinary study of math in architecture, though possessing a rich history in its own right, may best be appreciated in light of more recent developments aimed at bridging the gap between art and science in general.
ripley.wo.sbc.edu /departmental/dean/www/wassell.html   (923 words)

  
 Scholars debate architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Scholars debate architecture in the post-Holocaust era in CU lectures
He is co-editor of the new series CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, which explores the fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines its potential.
Vidler, who is also the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, is a specialist in the architecture of Enlightenment, an authority on the work of Claude Nicholas Ledoux and a critic of 20th century architecture and theory.
www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/98/3.26.98/arch_lect.html   (499 words)

  
 Aga Khan - Timeline - 1984
April 13,1984: Hazar Imam was honoured as Patron of Architecture and became the 19th recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Architecture Award, at the university of Virginia The Citation described Hazar Imam as "..truly a man for all seasons and all countries "
November 12, 1984: Hazar Imam met with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt at the Abideen Palace, Cairo.
Mowlana Hazar Imam honoured as Patron of Architecture April 13, 1984 Following the Presentation Ceremony of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in Charlottesville, Virginia, University President Frank L Hereford Jr.
ismaili.net /timeline/84.html   (324 words)

  
 Architecture
Architecture as Dynamic System, presented by Alex Brown (subjects presented: Architectural History, Architectural Theory, Design History, History of Modern Art, Definitions, Glossary, and Articles and Papers.
Architecture and Building, presented by University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries.
Archeology and Architecture, presented by Menne C. Kosian.
www.cagenweb.com /quarries/architecture.html   (1326 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Books: Robert Venturi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism.
His writing, teaching, and architectural work have had a decisive influence on the younger generation of architects throughout the world.
Its extreme in its area of covering the world of architecture and how Venturi studies each theory on how the world of architecture has changed and is changing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810960230?v=glance   (1027 words)

  
 Faculty :: People :: Architecture Program :: COA :: GaTech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was Aga Khan Professor of Architecture at MIT, 1984-91, and Chairman of the Aga Khan Program at Harvard and MIT; Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1970-85; in 1991 he moved from MIT to become Professor of the Doctoral Program in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
His doctoral and post-doctoral studies were in European colonial architecture and urbanism from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, in the West Indies, Africa and Asia, with particular emphasis on cultural interactions.
He has researched and published in the area of architectural science, especially in climatic control in tropical and subtropical countries, and in acoustics, the acoustics of music and acoustical designing in architecture.
www.arch.gatech.edu /arch/people/faculty/Lewcock   (619 words)

  
 BU Libraries | Research Guides | Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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   (2172 words)

  
 Bibliography: Architecture
Bloom, J. and Blair, S. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800".
Islamic art and architecture : the system of geometric design; edited by Tarek El-Bouri and Keith Critchlow ; general editor Salma Samar Damluji.
Michell, G. Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning".
www.islamicart.com /library/bib/architecture.html   (360 words)

  
 Turkish Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Research on Turkish Architecture is generally carried out around the focal point of Anatolia's conquest in the eleventh century.
The typical features of the Karakhanid period architecture, examples of which are seen in the cities Bukhara, Samarkand and Merv, are the central court plans with iwan and use of domes and vault and the preference of brick and sundried brick as building materials.
Second Period of National Architecture coincides with the rise of National Socialism in the world which was at the time highly effective in our country.
www.lesartsturcs.com /general_arts/archi_turk_overview.html   (1021 words)

  
 1985 in architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1984 in architecture, other events of 1985, 1986 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
The Inman Report is released, with major implications for the architecture of United States embassies.
This page was last modified 19:28, 30 August 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_in_architecture   (65 words)

  
 Construction Terminology: Architecture: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries
Architectural and Building Trades Dictionary, R.E. Putnam and G.E. Carlson.
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, 2nd ed., Cyril Harris.
Illustrated Glossary of Architecture: 850-1830, John Harris and Jill Lever.
libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/architecture/design/index.html   (288 words)

  
 Williams College Library - Subject Guides - Art and Architecture
Covers the journal literature of art and architecture from 1929 to 1984.
Selective index of core journal articles in the humanities, including archaeology, art, architecture, literature, history, music, philosophy and religion.
Excellent source of references on Asian art and architecture, 1971 to the present.
www.williams.edu /library/subjectguides/art/research/journals.html   (99 words)

  
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“The Turkish Nationality Room Project: Memory and Imagination in Architecture” Presented at the Symposium on Culture Art and Architecture in Ottoman Turkey, held at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, September 30.
"Architectural identity in the Chinese vernacular in Yunnan" IASTE’94 International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Tunis Conference, Tunisia, December 17- 21, 1994.
"Role models in architectural education," Symposium on the Role of the Architect in Society, held at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January 1983.
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~oa04/CVfiles/lectures.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Architecture Reference Materials, UM Libraries
Scope: This guide lists print reference resources for the study of architectural history, theory, and practice, primarily in the reference section of the Architecture Library at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Architectural Books in Early America: Architectural Treatises and Building Handbooks Available in American Libraries and Bookstores through 1800.
The Architectural Drawings of Henri Sauvage: The Works of an Architect-Decorator in the Collections of the Institut Francais d'Architecture and the Archives de Paris.
www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/guides/refguide.html   (2051 words)

  
 Bibliography
Rural Architecture; Comprising Farm Houses, Cottages, Carriage Houses, Sheep and Dove Cotes, Pigeries, Barns, &c.
Cummings' Architectural Details, Containing 387 Designs and 967 Illustrations of the Various Parts Needed in the Construction of Buildings, Public and Private, Both for the City and Country.
Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic
www.vintagedesigns.com /bibliography/index.htm   (2619 words)

  
 eBay - architecture ..., Nonfiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Architecture 2000 And Beyond success art of prediction
Architecture and The Sciences - Exchanging Metaphors - PB
Architecture by Herzog and De Meuron - New PB
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 CCSF Architecture Dept :: Faculty :: Olallo Fernandez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Though I've sought to specialize in the field of Construction Management, I have been involved in all phases of the design and construction process.
For the past eleven years I've been an Architect at ED2 International, a San Francisco Architectural firm.
While there I've headed up the Construction Administration on projects including a $30 million library for Sonoma State University, a number of research facilities for the University of California and a number of school facilities here in San Francisco.
www.ccsf.edu /Departments/Architecture/faculty/ofernandez.html   (178 words)

  
 James Wines (Architecture Faculty)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bruce Goff Professorship in Architecture, University of Oklahoma, 1993
The Department of Architecture is part of the the School of Architecture
and Landscape Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State.
www.arch.psu.edu /people/wines_detail.htm   (1488 words)

  
 Interior Design: Inside architecture. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is a modest book in size and price, and its paperback format makes it look like some kind of travel guide indeed.
According to its author, it is conceived as a guide to architecture in a very broad sense.
Although it makes no attempt to be an architectural history book, it does cover architecture through the ages in a general way--but it obviously does not attempt to compete with...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:3250808&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (210 words)

  
 HTC at MIT
SMArchS thesis: "Regionalism and Greek Architecture: The Architecture of Dimitris and Susanna Antonakakis"
PhD thesis: "From the Portfolio to the Diagram: Architectural Discourse and the Transformation of the Discipline of Architecture in America, 1918-1943."
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art is part of the Department of Architecture, within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
architecture.mit.edu /htc/community/alumni_name.html   (3595 words)

  
 Record: Architecture critic Kamin to speak
Kamin is the author of Why Architecture Matters: Lessons From Chicago, a critically acclaimed collection of his Tribune columns.
Born in Red Bank, N.J., Kamin graduated from Amherst College in 1979 with a bachelor of arts degree and from Yale University's School of Architecture in 1984 with a master of environmental design degree.
He became the newspaper's architecture critic in 1992.
record.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/1827.html   (325 words)

  
 UCLA College Library Research: Architecture Articles
Citations for items in architecture and related disciplines.
archaeology, architecture, city planning, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, and other art topics.
Cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984.
www.library.ucla.edu /college/research/articles/architecture.htm   (124 words)

  
 Art Libraries Society of North America - George Wittenborn Award: Past Winners
Award: The Museum of Modern Art for distinguished museum publishing, as exemplified in 1977 by The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts edited by Arthur Drexler (distributed by MIT Press, 1977).
University of California Press for French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean Bony (1983), for this distinct contribution to the field of medieval architectural history.
MIT Press for Herbert Bayer: the Complete Work by Arthur A. Cohen (1984), the result of a consuming passion on the part of the author for this artist and designer, sensitively and accurately translated into a book design in total sympathy with the creative credo of its subject.
www.arlisna.org /about/awards/wittenborn_winners.html   (5930 words)

  
 OU Landscape Architecture: Faculty: Tom Schurch
"Common Culture and Regionalism as Determinants of Urban Form." Avant Garde: The Journal of Theory and Criticism in Architecture and the Arts.
Urban Design and Urban Form - Interest in urban design includes conventional approaches to form giving in addition to aspects of regional character that are reflected in natural, historical and cultural features.
College of Architecture and Planning, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair, Ball State University, 1988-1989
la.coa.ou.edu /facultyts.php   (416 words)

  
 Viruslist.com - History of Hacking-related Events
1984 - Fred Cohen develops the first PC viruses and comes up with the now-standard term 'computer virus'.
1984 - Andrew Tannenbaum creates Minix, a free UNIX clone based on a modular microkernel architecture.
1984 - Bill Landreth, aka 'The Cracker', is convicted of hacking computer systems and accessing NASA and Department of Defense computer data.
www.viruslist.com /en/hackers/info?chapter=153350030   (1443 words)

  
 1984 Volume I: Elements of Architecture, Part Ii
1984 Volume I: Elements of Architecture, Part Ii Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
“there are no really tall sea shells”1 An Exploration of Architectural Space
Piece of Mind: Poetry, Person, and Place in Architecture
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/1   (50 words)

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