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    Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ending hostilities between the Allies of World War I and Austria, was signed at the château. During the German occupation (1940–44), the...
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    Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized...
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    Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern...
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    Revolution: Architecture, Society and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2008. O'Rourke, Kathryn. Modern Architecture in Mexico...
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    Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi...
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    d'architecture en France". Within more practical applications, nonce orders, invented under the impetus of Neoclassicism, have served as examples of architecture parlante...
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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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    Beaux-Arts architecture (/boʊz ˈɑːr/ bohz AR, French: [boz‿aʁ] ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly...
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    Collectors Library. ISBN 9781843060192. Bunting, William Braylesford (1940). Chapel-en-le-Frith – Its History and its People (1st ed.). Manchester: Sherratt...
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    In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function. An international functionalist...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...
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    it reverted to France. Strasbourg was captured by the German army in June 1940 at the end of the Battle of France (World War II), and subsequently came...
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    The architecture of Norway has evolved in response to changing economic conditions, technological advances, demographic fluctuations and cultural shifts...
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    Tuschinski Theatre (category Art Deco architecture in the Netherlands)
    2021-10-28. M. M. Bakker, F. M. van de Poll: Architectuur en stedebouw in Amsterdam 1850–1940. Waanders, Zwolle ca. 1992, ISBN 90-6630-308-5 Theater tuschinski...
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    become the site of the ambitious new architecture. Rotterdam is also famous for its Lijnbaan 1952 by architects Broek en Bakema, Peperklip by architect Carel...
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    Acadian architecture, also known as Cadien architecture, is a traditional style of architecture used by Acadians and Cajuns. It is prevalent in Acadia...
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    d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible...
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    Gunnar Asplund (category 1940 deaths)
    Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture. Among Asplund's most important...
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    Château de Chaumont (La Serre-Bussière-Vieille) (category 20th-century architecture in France)
    Serre-Bussière-Vieille in Creuse". Architecture Vernaculaire. Retrieved 26 June 2024. "Un château ayant recueilli des enfants juifs en Creuse en vente sur Le Bon coin"...
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    bə-ROK, US: /-ˈroʊk/ -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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    anticipated by Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), a leader in the Gothic Revival in architecture. For example, he advocated truth to material, structure, and function...
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    Șerban Cantacuzino, Romanian Modernism: The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920–1940 Romania: Arts & Architecture, Romanian Tourist Office Tatiana Murzin, Romanian...
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    Taq Kasra (category Sasanian architecture)
    capital city. The archway is considered a landmark in the history of architecture, and is the second largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork...
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    landmarks. Recent architecture is dominated by postwar concrete reconstructions, modernist buildings and examples of contemporary architecture such as the courts...
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    arquitectura española en el arranque de la modernidad (1940-1965) [North American architecture, engine and mirror of Spanish architecture at the beginning...
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    Crypt (redirect from Crypt (architecture))
    Eseguite negli anni 1940-1949 (Città del Vaticano, 1951) 1:173-93, noted in Werner Jacobsen, "Saints' Tombs in Frankish Church Architecture" Speculum 72.4...
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    policy and architectural modifications of the city were made by him and his collaborator Jose Manuel Arjona y Cuba. Industrial architecture surviving today...
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    Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc. It has evolved over the two...
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    The architecture of Melbourne, Victoria, and Australia is characterised by a wide variety of styles. The city is particularly noted for its mix of Victorian...
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    Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual...
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