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	Rustication (architecture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rustication of Bramante's "House of Raphael" is reinterpreted by Playfair for a courtyard in the Old College, University of Edinburgh, 1817.
		Rustication is an architectural term that contrasts with ashlar, smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces.
		During the 18th century following the Palladian revival, rustication was widely used on the ground floors of large buildings, as its contrived appearance of simplicity and solidity contrasted well to the carved ornamental stonework and columns of the floors above.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rustication_(architecture) (529 words)

	Rustication - LoveToKnow Watches
		The Crusaders' castles in Palestine are all boldly rusticated, but the projecting portions have been worked over with a chisel in diagonal lines, and this enables them to be distinguished from the earlier masonry.
		In the five-sided tower at Nuremberg and the Burg-Capelle at Rothenburg, the rustication has a decorative value, so that in later work it was employed for the quoin-stones of towers.
		Rustication was introduced into England by Inigo Jones, who, in old Somerset House, York Stairs Watergate, the gateway of the Botanical Garden at Oxford, and elsewhere, used it only in alternate courses, his example being followed by other architects of.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rustication (266 words)

	Sicilian Baroque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baroque architecture is a European phenomenon originating in 17th-century Italy; it is flamboyant and theatrical, and richly ornamented by sculpture and an effect known as chiaroscuro, the strategic use of light and shade on a building created by mass and shadow.
		Sebastiano Serlio had decorated the blocks of ashlar in his rustication; by the end of the 16th century, Sicilian architects were ornamenting the blocks with carvings of leaves, fish-scales, and even sweets and shells; shells were later to become among the most prevalent ornamental symbols of Baroque design.
		Architecture in the island's major cities was strongly influenced by the family of the sculptor Domenico Gagini, who arrived from Florence in 1463.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicilian_Baroque (8312 words)

	AllRefer.com - rustication (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		This device was used by Renaissance architects in the palace facades at Florence, a favorite treatment being that of a ground floor with stones of strong projection and roughly textured surface, surmounted by upper stories in which both forms were more refined.
		The garden architecture of the Italian baroque villa shows many grotesquely textured examples.
		Rustications also appeared frequently in the Georgian style and in American Colonial architecture.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/rusticat.html (273 words)

	Art Terms and Definitions
		Architectural order which originated in Corinth around the 5th century B.C. The Corinthian capital is decorated with acanthus leaves from which small volutes emerge.
		Style of Gothic architecture which came into being at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries.
		A style of the figurative arts - especially sculpture - and of architecture which flourished throughout western Europe from the end of the 10th century until the middle of the 12th century (in Italy until the early decades of the 13th century).
	www.arca.net /tourism/glossary.htm (3857 words)

	Brunelleschi's Florence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the fifteenth century, Florentine monumental architecture was concerned with a few large-scale reconstructions of religious complexes and the building of unusually large palaces for the major families of the merchant 'bourgeoisie'.
		The rustication of the immense blocks on the ground floor is as monumental as in ancient Roman architecture, while fourteenth-century ashlar work gave the impression of having been cut by sharp tools and used almost in the roughly trimmed state in which the blocks came from the quarry.
		The use of sgraffiti in religious architecture was rare, but did exist as witnessed by the facades of the large cloister of S. Croce, possibly by Bemardo Rossellino and Brunelleschian in its general architectural lines.
	www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it /apteng/itinerari/brunelleschi/B2b.html (1211 words)

	Vernacular architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Vernacular buildings have made up a large portion of the built environment throughout human history because the profession of architect is a relatively new invention, because academic architecture has tended towards a narrow range of acceptable styles and forms, and because even today architects are involved in only a small percentage of built structures.
		Once seen as obsolete, vernacular architecture is now the subject of serious academic study, and is increasingly considered a potential component of sustainable development for its quality of adaptation to the local environment.
		Oliver has argued that vernacular architecture will be necessary in the future to "ensure sustainability in both cultural and economic terms beyond the short term.
	wiki-shorts.freestat.pl /47-4086-Vernacular_architecture.html (343 words)

	Chapter Seven. The Construction Industry and the Aesthetics of Military Architecture
		Rustication has a military purpose: it protects of the joints of the masonry, and when struck by projectiles it is more likely than smooth masonry to dissipate their force by fracturing harmlessly.
		The boldest instance of bossed and rusticated masonry is in the Mamlûk towers of the Jerusalem Citadel, built in 710/1310, in which the whole level of the brattices is bossed.
		It appears that rustication belongs to the Damascus area and south, and was little used in North Syria: this suggests that there were regional styles in military architecture as well as in civil architecture.
	www.sonic.net /~tallen/palmtree/ayyarch/ch7.htm (4899 words)

	Index of Architecture Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Its grand-scale conception included elements drawn from the rustication of Florentine palaces, the water and walkways of Venice, the elegant squares of Georgian London and the high-rise designs of the U.S. Today, the cultural and architectural communities are re-assessing the site's significance in light of the achievement it represents.
		International Architecture Centres is the definitive guide to the network of architecture centres established in the UK Europe and North America.
		The aim of the conference was to raise awareness of the important role of architecture centres in promoting architecture and design, and as public forums for debating the past, present and future of cities.
	www.familyhaven.com /architecture/architecture11/architecture112.html (3209 words)

	La Biennale di Venezia. VIII International Architecture Exhibition. Russian Exposition
		The strip of rustication along the lower third of the building was also preserved; it was made deeper and more detailed.
		The architect labored to fill in the blank surfaces of the walls characteristic of the Empire style with window platbands, panels, niches and other similar decorations the style of which can be described as neo-Renaissance with individual elements of late classicism.
		The dry, fragmentary nature of the facade decor of the Bolshoy Theater was not very noticeable because the Empire style architecture continued to set a monumental scale (something which cannot be said, for instance, about the Mariinski Theater also executed by Cavos a few years later).
	www.muar.ru /ve/biennale/catalogue_eng/c/c_1.htm (965 words)

	Renässansens arkitektur
		The ground floor has the usual heavy rustication; the second story is marked by drafted stonework with smooth blocks outlined by incised lines; and the third story has ashlar stonework with no indications of the blocks.
		The period was a very brief one, centered almost exclusively in the city of Rome; it ended with the political and religious tensions that shook Europe during the third decade of the century, culminating in the disastrous sack of Rome in 1527 and the siege of Florence in 1529.
		Sansovino's architecture, as represented by the Loggetta (1537-40) at the foot of St. Mark's campanile or by the Old Library of St. Mark's (Libreria Vecchia [1536-88]), is rich in surface decorative qualities.
	homepage.mac.com /gillgren/Scen/renassansensarki.html (5558 words)

	Architecture of the Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The live-liest motif is the rustication, an effective contrast with the smooth underlay and shaped into a system of bands alternately combined in twos and threes.
		This complicated rhythm is even used in the rusticated voussoirs which create a quite "non-Classical" joke, as they are inserted in the lower parts of the windows, upside down.
		The principle of contrasting a smooth underlay, which forms the pilasters and divided archivolts, with the rusticated protruding elements-rings and voussoirs-is the main source of aesthetic tension.
	old.hrad.cz /castle/architektura/renesance016_uk.html (559 words)

	RUSTICATION (i.e. the ... - Online Information article about RUSTICATION (i.e. the ...
		rus, country; thus the term " rusticate " is used for taking a country holiday, or in academic circles to be " rusticated " is to be sent away from a university for punishment)
		The Crusaders' castles in Palestine are all boldly rusticated, but the projecting portions have been worked over with a chisel in See also:
		Burg-Capelle at Rothenburg, the rustication has a decorative value, so that in later work it was employed for the quoin-stones of towers.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/RUSTICATION_ie_the_making_rusti.html (757 words)

	SICILY, Sicilian Art and Architecture #2 BuySicilian - Sicilian Handicraft: Ceramics, Pottery, Carpets, Coural ...
		Little remains of pre-1693 architecture in the earthquake zone, but that which does, such as S. Sebastiano, Acireale, suggests that it was highly decorated with scrolls, rustication and grotesque masks.
		One of the most fascinating and peculiar aspects of Palermitan (and, to a lesser extent, Messinese) Baroque architecture is the use of cut and polished inlaid stones, known as marmi mischi, to cover the walls in a fabulous display of motifs, sometimes religious and symbolic, sometimes purely decorative.
		Palace architecture has suffered from disgraceful neglect in Palermo, but enough survives for us to appreciate the diversity of plans, the character of the façades and the most important features, such as doors, windows and staircases, on all of which creative energy was concentrated.
	www.buysicilian.it /uk/archimede/sicilia/baroque.html (1653 words)

	Hoc monumentum... < The ironic column < Autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle
		The English architect Quinlan Terry is a remarkable classicist, a throwback to a mode of architecture that all but disappeared some generations ago.
		Terry knows his architecture well enough (and his Latin) to crack a joke with a column and an inscription.
		This developed into what we see now: a column with bands of rustication which are themselves banded, like the Michelin Man’s tyres, and with a bold and bulbous finial on top.
	www.marquis-kyle.com.au /ironic-2001-02-06.htm (352 words)

	Looking at Buildings: from the Pevsner Architectural Guides. An introduction to understanding and exploring the built ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An introduction to understanding and exploring the built environment and architecture of all periods and styles with pages on architectural history, styles, traditions, buildings, materials and techniques, city guides, and educational features including a glossary and database of architects.
		Rustication was associated by Renaissance architects with the simplest of classical Orders, the Tuscan Order.
		In buildings such as St Paul's Cathedral, rustication is conceived of as a sober ornament capable of dressing a facade with monumentality and of expressing the 'mass' of the building.
	www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk /?Document=1.C.1.2.1,2 (217 words)

	DVD: The Classical Language of Architecture $11.98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like аnу other language has its own grammatical rules.
		He explains the vigorous discipline of "the оrdеrs" and the scope of "rustication"; the dramatic dеviаtiоns of the Baroque and, in the last chapter, the rеlаtiоnshiр between the classical tradition and the "modern" architecture of today.
		The book is intended for anybody who cares for architecture but mоrе specifically for students beginning a course in the history of architecture, to whom a guide to the classical rules will be an essential companion.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar30323632363930313238.html (543 words)

	New York Architecture Images- 2 Columbus Circle
		Following an international competition, Allied Works Architecture was selected as the architect for the Museum of Arts and Design, a collecting and teaching institution dedicated to the study and advancement of contemporary craft.
		Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable despised the building and called it `a die-cut Venetian palace on lollipops.' Edward Durrell Stone's white marble edifice at 2 Columbus Circle seemed an oddity when it was built in 1964, an indulgence for Huntington Hartford, who put his art collection inside it.
		Stone was a major figure in American architecture, and his Columbus Circle building, completed in 1965, is among a handful of works that represent a turning point in his career, when he rejected some of the tenets of late Modernism in favor of a more overt historicism.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /MID/MID095.htm (14550 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)

	Classical Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is the arrangement of these forms that create the harmony and symmetry we associate with classical architecture.
		The ground story often shows rustication, that is, it is surfaced with a rougher material than the upper stories.
		Though the four ‘palaces’ are not identical, they are distinguished by rustication at ground level, pilasters (square columns) running from the first storey to the attics, ornamental mouldings delineating on floor from the next one, all topped by an ornamental pediment.
	artyfacts.info /Classicism.htm (485 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Cambridge
		The street architecture is mean, dingy yellow brick being the chief material of the houses, and the site, on the edge of the chalk and fen country, is as dreary and uninteresting as anything in England.
		It was finished in 1536, and ranks with St. George's Chapel, Windsor, among the most perfect existing specimens of perpendicular architecture.
		Third in architectural importance is St. John's, with its four courts, one of the most notable modern additions to any college in Cambridge.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03211a.htm (4413 words)

	ArtLex's Rf-Rz page
		The ribbed groin vault, developed during this period, was to be extremely important in Gothic architecture.
		The design of this of architectural ornament incorporates elements from ancient traditions, and includes acanthus leaves and strings of pearls.
		- In architecture, to give an eroded or rustic appearance by roughening the surface and beveling the edges of stone blocks to emphasize the joints between them.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Rf.html (3866 words)

	The Midtown Book - 1 International Plaza (750 Lexington Avenue) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Circular or cylindrical architecture is surprisingly disappointing and rather rare.
		Moreover, the bays are separated by smoothly curved lozenge rustication of polished dark gray granite that looks good enough to eat and is the best modem rustication in the city.
		The lobby, shown below, however, is wonderful, repeating the polished granite rustication, this time, correctly, in fl but also the stepped cone top of the building, a very, very elegant space of great dignity and good, but not overwhelming size.
	www.thecityreview.com /cohenlex.html (711 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - rustication
		RUSTICATION [rustication], in building construction, method of creating textures upon masonry wall surfaces, chiefly upon those of stone, by projecting the blocks beyond the surface of the mortar joints.
		Each joint thus lies in a channel or in a V-shaped groove, between adjoining stones, and a separating shadow line is produced.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "rustication" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r1/rusticat.asp (340 words)

	a momentary vignette \| rustication
		Rustication is a term used for the texture of stone masonry that displays deep horizontal or vertical joints.
		Rustication was often used by 19th century American architect H. Richardson to create a sense of power and strength in his buildings.
		The stones used are usually of a scale and finish that contrast sharply with the surfaces of other materials.
	www.loggia.com /vignette/79.html (88 words)

	Architecture Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An architectural screen or wall above and behind an altar, usually containing painting, sculpture, carving or other decorations.
		In Gothic architecture, the ribs form the framework of the vaulting.
		A style of European architecture containing both Roman and Byzantine elements, prevalent especially in the 11th and 12th centuries and characterized by thick walls, barrel vaults, and relatively unrefined ornamentation.
	tudorhistory.org /glossaries/architecture/r.html (97 words)

	Looking at Buildings: from the Pevsner Architectural Guides. An introduction to understanding and exploring the built ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Understanding and enjoyment of buildings is often made more complicated and difficult because of the complex vocabulary needed to interpret the language of architecture.
		The glossary is a searchable database of architectural terms and styles designed to assist understanding both of terms used in the pages of the site and for recognising the individual elements of a building.
		Many of the terms are supported by drawings (specially commissioned for the Pevsner Architectural Guides) or photographs to explain the term and its place within the composition of a complex structure.
	www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk /default.asp?document=2.30 (383 words)

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