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 (redirect from Art Moderne architecture)
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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Strasbourg (redirect from Architecture of Strasbourg)
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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Rotterdam (redirect from Architecture of Rotterdam)
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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Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (redirect from International Congresses of Modern Architecture)
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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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
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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Arts and Crafts movement (redirect from Arts and Crafts architecture)
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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Bucharest (redirect from Architecture of Bucharest)
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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Nantes (redirect from Architecture of Nantes)
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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