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Bauhaus
Anna Vallye
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
BauhausIntroductionThe Bauhaus is a paradigmatic institution of 20th-century art, in some contexts synonymous with the aesthetic and discursive instit...
Bronze-Age Cycladic/Minoan Architecture
John McEnroe
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Bronze-Age Cycladic/Minoan ArchitectureIntroductionThe study of Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades is a relatively new academic discipline. The first s...
Buddhist Architecture in Imperial China
Aurelia Campbell
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Buddhist Architecture in Imperial ChinaIntroductionBuddhist architecture in China encompasses a vast and diverse range of buildings spanning more than...
Building Materials of Chinese Architecture
Qinghua Guo
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Building Materials of Chinese ArchitectureIntroductionThis bibliography is a summation of our present knowledge of building materials used in China fr...
C. F. A. Voysey
Karen Livingstone
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
C. F. A. VoyseyIntroductionCharles Frances Annesley Voysey (b. 1857–d. 1941) was an architect, designer, and leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Mov...
Canada
David Theodore
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
CanadaIntroductionThe study of architecture in Canada focuses on biographical and aesthetic categories. Early 20th-century scholars adopted systematic...
Chandigarh
Iain Jackson
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
ChandigarhIntroductionFollowing independence from Britain in 1947, India was “partitioned,” resulting in the creation of West Pakistan and East Pakist...
Chicago School
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Chicago SchoolIntroductionWhile contemporary scholars question the existence of a cohesive “Chicago School” of architecture, there is no doubt that by...
Cloister
Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
CloisterIntroductionThe term “cloister” has two definitions, both based on the Latin word claustrum (pl. claustra), meaning an enclosure, a lock, or a...
Colonial and Modern Architecture in India
Pushkar Sohoni
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Colonial and Modern Architecture in IndiaIntroductionIn the colonial period, the term India was used in the traditional sense to describe the whole of...
Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Lauren O'Connell
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
École des Beaux-ArtsIntroductionThe term “École des Beaux-Arts” refers to a French arts institution and the building that housed it; the name also ref...
Edward Durell Stone
Mary Anne Hunting
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Edward Durell StoneIntroductionThe New York City–based modern architect Edward Durell Stone (b. 1902–d. 1978) achieved widespread success during his m...
Eiffel Tower
S. Hollis Clayson
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Eiffel TowerIntroductionThe literature on the Eiffel Tower is wide-ranging and multidisciplinary, echoing the character and history of the 300-meter i...
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Elizabeth Emery
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-DucIntroductionA polymath, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le Duc (b. 1814–d. 1879), is best-known today as a restoration architect...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Joseph M. Siry
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Frank Lloyd WrightIntroductionFrank Lloyd Wright (b. 1867–d. 1959) was perhaps the most well-known American architect, and one of the most important f...
Furness, Frank
George E. Thomas
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Frank FurnessIntroductionFrank Furness (12 November 1839–27 June 1912) took an original course that accelerated the transformation of American archite...
Garden City
Shiben Banerji
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Garden CityIntroductionThe garden city is notoriously difficult to define. The sheer variety of forms, social goals, and institutional arrangements as...
Gothic Revival/Gothick
Stephanie A. Glaser
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Gothic Revival/GothickIntroductionGothic Revival designates a key moment in architectural history. It also refers to the use of Gothic forms and motif...
Greek Building Technology and Methods
Alessandro Pierattini
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Greek Building Technology and MethodsIntroductionBuilding technology encompasses all human activities involved in the production of buildings, from th...
Henry Hobson Richardson
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Henry Hobson RichardsonIntroductionHenry Hobson Richardson (b. 1838–d. 1886) is considered one of the most important American architects the 19th cent...
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