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    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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    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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    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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