Louis Sullivan (category Organic architecture)
efforts were successful in both St. Louis and Buffalo. A collection of architectural ornaments designed by Sullivan is on permanent display at Lovejoy...
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Wainwright Building (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
naturalistic celery-leaf foliage typical of Sullivan and published in his System of Architectural Ornament, decorated spandrels between the windows on...
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Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier...
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aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed...
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36. Kruft, Hanno-Walter. A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present (New York, Princeton Architectural Press: 1994). Jones 2014,...
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of its parts. The style is manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulae...
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Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named...
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architectural style categories Architectural design values Feminism and modern architecture List of house styles Sacred architecture Architecture of cathedrals...
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Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages...
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built without fluting. Architectural ornament of fired and painted clay Early wooden structures, particularly temples, were ornamented and in part protected...
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topical guide to architecture: Architecture – the process and the product of designing and constructing buildings. Architectural works with a certain indefinable...
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Claude Fayette Bragdon (category Organic architecture)
geometric ornament. His most important contribution to both architectural modernism and progressive reform came in 1915 with his creation of a new ornamental...
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Prudential (Guaranty) Building (category Architecture of Buffalo, New York)
Chicago", Architectural Review Scully, Vincent (1959), "Louis Sullivan's Architectural Ornament: A Brief Note concerning Humanist Design in the Age of Force"...
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Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed...
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Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and...
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Farmers and Merchants Union Bank (Columbus, Wisconsin) (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
House, is also a National Historic Landmark. The design of this bank is fully documented in Sullivan's 1924 A System of Architectural Ornament, published...
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Classical order (redirect from Architectural orders)
Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic...
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Muqarnas is the Arabic word for stalactite vault, an architectural ornament developed around the middle of the tenth century in north-eastern Iran and almost...
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Arabesque (category Ornaments)
lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foliate ornament, used in the Islamic world, typically using leaves, derived from stylised...
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Indian architecture is rooted in the history, culture, and religion of India. Among several architectural styles and traditions, the best-known include...
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Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the...
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Without Order Ornament, Single-Sheet Engravings, and the Mutability of Architectural Prints." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71:488–523...
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suggest the aerodynamic features of a rocket ship. Also, at the time, the unique architecture was a form of architectural expressionism, as space rockets...
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Prairie School (redirect from Prairie School of Architecture)
and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie...
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Sunburst (category Ornaments (architecture))
A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams"...
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or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement...
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Ca' d'Zan (category Italianate architecture in Florida)
house, prominently seen in a variety of architectural elements such as windows with Gothic arches and terra cotta ornament replicating Gothic tracery...
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Biomimicry in Architecture. London: RIBA Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1859463758 Vincent, Julian. Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design. Architectural Design...
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The architecture of the United Kingdom, or British architecture, consists of a combination of architectural styles, dating as far back to Roman architecture...
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buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. Roman architecture flourished in the...
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