american neoclassicism and the emergence of the skyscraper (1870
... work reflects this influence. By the early 1870s, Richardson came into his own style, distinguished by heavy masonry and arched entrances, such as two projects in Massachusetts, the Hampden County Courthouse in Springfield and the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy. Richardson utilized a creative ...
... work reflects this influence. By the early 1870s, Richardson came into his own style, distinguished by heavy masonry and arched entrances, such as two projects in Massachusetts, the Hampden County Courthouse in Springfield and the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy. Richardson utilized a creative ...
Historical Features of the Tigris River in Baghdad Rusafa, which
... Al-Mustansiriya school building: The school of Al-Mustansiriya created in 625 AH / (1227) AD, at the hands of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir (623 AH - 640 AH / 1226 AD -1242 AD) on the eastern side of Baghdad, on the bank of the Tigris River considers the oldest universities in the Arab and Muslim ...
... Al-Mustansiriya school building: The school of Al-Mustansiriya created in 625 AH / (1227) AD, at the hands of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir (623 AH - 640 AH / 1226 AD -1242 AD) on the eastern side of Baghdad, on the bank of the Tigris River considers the oldest universities in the Arab and Muslim ...
New York, Chicago Claim 5 of Tallest US Buildings
... In reflection of just how in dispute everything from height to number of floors can be, these figures from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat sometimes differ from those of the building's owners and developers. 1 WORLD TRADE CENTER, New York. To be completed in 2014. This is the marquee ...
... In reflection of just how in dispute everything from height to number of floors can be, these figures from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat sometimes differ from those of the building's owners and developers. 1 WORLD TRADE CENTER, New York. To be completed in 2014. This is the marquee ...
MODULE 9: ARCHITECTURE This module explores architecture
... Forged iron and milled steel began to replace wood, brick and stone as primary materials for large buildings. This change is encapsulated in the Eiffel Tower built in 1889. Standing on four huge arched legs, the iron lattice tower rises narrowly to just over 1000 feet high. When I visited the tower ...
... Forged iron and milled steel began to replace wood, brick and stone as primary materials for large buildings. This change is encapsulated in the Eiffel Tower built in 1889. Standing on four huge arched legs, the iron lattice tower rises narrowly to just over 1000 feet high. When I visited the tower ...
American Architecture - University High School
... New systems of construction allowed for architects to design churches with thinner walls and lighter piers. Piers extended several stories high and into the roof area making individual columns like ribs on an open umbrella. Ribbed vaults are most distinguishable characteristic of Gothic archit ...
... New systems of construction allowed for architects to design churches with thinner walls and lighter piers. Piers extended several stories high and into the roof area making individual columns like ribs on an open umbrella. Ribbed vaults are most distinguishable characteristic of Gothic archit ...
Local Architects Put Projects on the Drawing Board
... up this year is the growing need for affordable housing in Central Oregon. We are working on multiple apartment complexes in response to the tight rental market. "Other trends are in adaptive reuse of commercial and industrial spaces. Projects like the original 130,000 SF Fuqua industrial site adjac ...
... up this year is the growing need for affordable housing in Central Oregon. We are working on multiple apartment complexes in response to the tight rental market. "Other trends are in adaptive reuse of commercial and industrial spaces. Projects like the original 130,000 SF Fuqua industrial site adjac ...
Rieder Smart Elements Press Release Mühlenweg 22 January 2007
... Then it goes on into the lounge that is suspended in space above the sales area and through to the special tasting room as highlight and culmination of the exploration. The sculptural landscape of ceilings and floors provides vistas of face concrete, acacia parquet and glass, forming a strong compos ...
... Then it goes on into the lounge that is suspended in space above the sales area and through to the special tasting room as highlight and culmination of the exploration. The sculptural landscape of ceilings and floors provides vistas of face concrete, acacia parquet and glass, forming a strong compos ...
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... the values we assign to education, profession and cooperation. And she would encourage us to imitate the example of life bequeathed by the renowned Chilean architect Joan Mac Donald Maier, whose career is highlighted at ARCADIA III ...
... the values we assign to education, profession and cooperation. And she would encourage us to imitate the example of life bequeathed by the renowned Chilean architect Joan Mac Donald Maier, whose career is highlighted at ARCADIA III ...
The Story of Modern Architecture of the 20th Century
... comprehensible, coordinated fabric of relationships that its laws had become invisible. Then with the industrial revolution of the 19th century it turned almost overnight into a Moloch. The flight from the land brought an urban explosion. The problems arising from this could not be removed by techno ...
... comprehensible, coordinated fabric of relationships that its laws had become invisible. Then with the industrial revolution of the 19th century it turned almost overnight into a Moloch. The flight from the land brought an urban explosion. The problems arising from this could not be removed by techno ...
In GMS Art we will consider how the architect creates intentional
... The founders of the American nation drew architectural and aesthetic inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, and the builders of the U.S. Capitol would readily have used marble if it were available. However, no nearby deposits had been discovered when construction began, so sandstone ...
... The founders of the American nation drew architectural and aesthetic inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, and the builders of the U.S. Capitol would readily have used marble if it were available. However, no nearby deposits had been discovered when construction began, so sandstone ...
Construction Projects For more information please contact the
... faculty and staff under one roof. Offices, workrooms, and classroom spaces are high functioning and bright, with an emphasis on bringing in natural light through the placement of solar tubes throughout. The existing bathrooms on the upper level were also renovated and the air handling unit serving t ...
... faculty and staff under one roof. Offices, workrooms, and classroom spaces are high functioning and bright, with an emphasis on bringing in natural light through the placement of solar tubes throughout. The existing bathrooms on the upper level were also renovated and the air handling unit serving t ...
The Processual Method in the Analysis of the
... It is noted that the forecast of that axis, polarized at the end of the peninsula of Ta-Xbiex, is the result of a dialectic-critical operation in which merge reading and project. A typical ingredient of maltese architecture the "galerijas" was introduced –reinterpreted and updated- to define the rea ...
... It is noted that the forecast of that axis, polarized at the end of the peninsula of Ta-Xbiex, is the result of a dialectic-critical operation in which merge reading and project. A typical ingredient of maltese architecture the "galerijas" was introduced –reinterpreted and updated- to define the rea ...
Powerpoint
... third world metropoles carelessly breaking all urban records, proportions, and aesthetic standards. Western concepts and terminologies, they say, trying to sound apocalyptic, ominous, touched, enthusiastic and nonchalant at the same time, can no longer do justice to the many Tehrans of this shifting ...
... third world metropoles carelessly breaking all urban records, proportions, and aesthetic standards. Western concepts and terminologies, they say, trying to sound apocalyptic, ominous, touched, enthusiastic and nonchalant at the same time, can no longer do justice to the many Tehrans of this shifting ...
The Development of Architecture in the 20th Century
... As early as 1922, he had developed a design for a Ville Contemporaine, which featured enormous skyscrapers standing isolated in green space and connected by a system of raised roads with interlinked airports and train stations. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic were completely separated, and the city ...
... As early as 1922, he had developed a design for a Ville Contemporaine, which featured enormous skyscrapers standing isolated in green space and connected by a system of raised roads with interlinked airports and train stations. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic were completely separated, and the city ...
LOUIS SULLIVAN: Father of Modern Architecture
... • the first to promote the new technologies of steelframe construction in commercial buildings, and • they developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism. ...
... • the first to promote the new technologies of steelframe construction in commercial buildings, and • they developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism. ...
The architectural Zen of Brian MacKay-Lyons
... about the sprint to fame and fortune. “There are two traditions of working,” he says. “You can set out to make a hit record. Or you can set out to develop a body of work. As a teacher, I believe that the body of work is a more wholesome thing. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” And now ...
... about the sprint to fame and fortune. “There are two traditions of working,” he says. “You can set out to make a hit record. Or you can set out to develop a body of work. As a teacher, I believe that the body of work is a more wholesome thing. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” And now ...
Newsletter March 2009
... The movement of buildings near the metro construction is monitored round the clock There are old buildings near and along the route of the new metro, some of which are protected monuments, therefore the experts attach special attention to the preservation of buildings all the way through the duratio ...
... The movement of buildings near the metro construction is monitored round the clock There are old buildings near and along the route of the new metro, some of which are protected monuments, therefore the experts attach special attention to the preservation of buildings all the way through the duratio ...
Export of Architecture in the Cold War Period: Projects, Actors and
... Since antiquity, the spread of regional and later also national architectures has been a process of fundamental importance for cultural history. The global expansion of the 20th century Modernism can certainly be considered as one of its peaks. While more and more architects from Africa, Asia and La ...
... Since antiquity, the spread of regional and later also national architectures has been a process of fundamental importance for cultural history. The global expansion of the 20th century Modernism can certainly be considered as one of its peaks. While more and more architects from Africa, Asia and La ...
Japanese Architecture
... paper-covered sliding panels (shoji and fusuma, respectively) and rush mats (tatami)—that are still key elements of the traditional Japanese house. The most magnificent extant example of this style is the seventeenth-century Ninomaru Palace of Nijo Castle in Kyoto. In the seventeenth century, the sh ...
... paper-covered sliding panels (shoji and fusuma, respectively) and rush mats (tatami)—that are still key elements of the traditional Japanese house. The most magnificent extant example of this style is the seventeenth-century Ninomaru Palace of Nijo Castle in Kyoto. In the seventeenth century, the sh ...
history of architecture : modern architecture
... precedent, functional necessities, and socially aware concerns, but that to achieve significance, a work of architecture must be a transcendent synthesis of all of the former and a creation of worth in and of itself. ...
... precedent, functional necessities, and socially aware concerns, but that to achieve significance, a work of architecture must be a transcendent synthesis of all of the former and a creation of worth in and of itself. ...
Property Flyer - THE LUMBERYARD
... The Lumber Yard was designed to meet the needs of companies that want a creative alternative to traditional office buildings. Architects, engineers, ad agencies, graphic designers, public relations firms, marketing organizations, and technology companies are some of the types of companies that may p ...
... The Lumber Yard was designed to meet the needs of companies that want a creative alternative to traditional office buildings. Architects, engineers, ad agencies, graphic designers, public relations firms, marketing organizations, and technology companies are some of the types of companies that may p ...
Japanese Architecture
... current building was constructed in 1744; its design is said to reflect the residential style of the Kofun period (ca 300–710). (Photo courtesy of Izumo Shrine) ...
... current building was constructed in 1744; its design is said to reflect the residential style of the Kofun period (ca 300–710). (Photo courtesy of Izumo Shrine) ...
Architecture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
... R.A. French and F.E. Ian Hamilton made similar observations in their 1979 book, The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy, writing that “if one were transported into any residential area built since the Second World War in the socialist countries, it would be easier at first glance to t ...
... R.A. French and F.E. Ian Hamilton made similar observations in their 1979 book, The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy, writing that “if one were transported into any residential area built since the Second World War in the socialist countries, it would be easier at first glance to t ...
Stalinist architecture
Stalinist architecture (Russian: ста́линский ампи́р stalinskiy ampir – Stalin's Empire style or Russian: ста́линский неоренесса́нс stalinskiy neorenessans – Stalin's Neo-renaissance), also referred to as Stalinist Empire style, or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned ""excesses"" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture. Stalinist architecture is associated with the socialist realism school of art and architecture.