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Topic: Pavement (architecture)

	AllRefer.com - concrete (Technology: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		Another improvement, thin-shell construction, takes advantage of the inherent structural strength of certain geometric shapes, such as hemispherical and elliptical domes; in thin-shell construction great distances are spanned with very little material.
		The perfecting of reinforced concrete has profoundly influenced structural building techniques and architectural forms.
		See A. Raafat, Reinforced Concrete in Architecture (1958); J. Waddell, Concrete Construction Handbook (1968); D. Orchard, Concrete Technology (1976).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/concrete.html (676 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gothic Architecture
		The result is that all the medieval architects of Western Europe, with the exception of that produced during the space of a century and a half, and chiefly within the limits of the old Royal Domain of France, is denied the title of Gothic.
		The era when architecture was to be the favourite mode for the artistic voicing of a civilization was, at least in the South, nearly at an end; painting and sculpture were to take its place, and therefore the Gothic architecture of Italy was to remain both racially alien and in its nature episodical.
		Thus in the hour of political and economic misfortune, in the midst of the financial ruin and degradation of the Church, was born flamboyant architecture -- the last frail blossom of medieval genius.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06665b.htm (9933 words)

	The Hidden Pavement Designs of the Laurentian Library from the book Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		During the course of its repair, workmen found a red and white terra cotta pavement hidden for nearly 200 years beneath the floorboards.
		In 1928 another mishap resulted in the exposure of the entire pavement, which allowed photographs to be made of the fifteen panels on the West side of the library before the wooden floor was replaced.
		Overall the pavement consists of two side aisles and a figurative center aisle.
	www.cartoinvest.com /culture/nexus/98/nicholson.html (335 words)

	The Digital Roman Forum Project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory
		This is because no matter how much a scholar has thought about a site, until he can experience it in three dimensions, he will frequently ignore issues that simply do not arise when work is done in two-dimensional media.
		In fact, it is analogous to what has been happening with physical architectural models since the time of Leon Battista Alberti, who, in his De re aedificatoria (1450), wrote that such models had often helped him to discover errors that he had made on paper in the design phase.
		In the nineteenth century we may even glimpse a conscious deprecation of architectural models parallel to what we find with ancient casts in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
	www.cvrlab.org /research/images/FrischerWorkshopPaperIllustratedWeb.htm (4901 words)

	Architectural Review: books
		THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY AT ST PANCRAS
		AN INSULAR ROCOCO: architecture, politics and society in Ireland and Britain, 1710-1770
		RURAL STUDIO: SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND AN ARCHITECTURE OF DECENCY
	www.arplus.com /book/main.htm (1259 words)

	English Usage Archives Page
		These are just two of the applications envisioned by promoters of the Worldwide Lexicon, an all-volunteer project founded by Brian McConnell.
		His concept: a distributed computing architecture drawing on nodes of participating PCs--and people--around the globe.
		But this was Los Angeles and the only person who didn't talk the lingo was me. On a pavement cafe on Melrose Avenue I was 'shooting the breeze' with a fellow luncher.
	www.yaelf.com /archives.shtml (17598 words)

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