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architecture
architecture the art of building in which human requirements and construction materials are related so as to furnish practical use as well as an aesthetic solution, thus differing from the pure utility of engineering construction. As an art, architecture is essentially abstract and nonrepresentat... Read more
modern architecture
modern architecture new architectural style that emerged in many Western countries in the decade after World War I. It was based on the "rational" use of modern materials, the principles of functionalist planning, and the rejection of historical precedent and ornament. This style has been gener... Read more
Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan. Religious Architectur... Read more
Owings and Merrill Skidmore
Owings and Merrill Skidmore American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897-1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903-84), and John O. Merrill (1896-1975). The firm helped to popularize the International style during the postwar period. Their best-known early work is L... Read more
William Wilson Wurster
William Wilson Wurster 1895-1973, American architect, b. Stockton, Calif. Wurster was a major designer of town and country dwellings in the roomy and comfortable West Coast aesthetic termed "Bay Region style." His buildings were carefully integrated with the surrounding environment. Wurster tau... Read more
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones , 1573-1652, one of England's first great architects. Son of a London clothmaker, he was enabled to travel in Europe before 1603 to study paintings, perhaps at the expense of the earl of Rutland. On a second trip to Italy (1613-14) he thoroughly studied the remains of Roman architecture ... Read more
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson 1906-2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study modern European architecture, Johnson wrote (with H.-R. Hitchcock) The International Style: Architecture since 1922 (1932), in... Read more
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock 1903-87, American architectural historian, b. Boston. Educated at Harvard, Hitchcock taught at Smith College and New York Univ. His writings, which helped to define modern architecture stylistically during the course of its development, are among the foremost in the field. H... Read more
John Wellborn Root
John Wellborn Root 1850-91, American architect, b. Lumpkin, Ga. He worked in New York City with James Renwick and became a partner of D. H. Burnham in Chicago. The firm created the modern type of highly organized architectural office suited to the planning of metropolitan buildings. Its partners ... Read more
Carthusians
Carthusians , small order of monks of the Roman Catholic Church [Lat. abbr.,=O. Cart.]. It was established by St. Bruno at La Grande Chartreuse (see Chartreuse, Grande ) in France in 1084. The Carthusians are peculiar among orders of Western monasticism in cultivating a nearly eremitical life: ea... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1973 in architecture"

expressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1957); F. Whitford, Expressionism (1970); J. Willett, Expressionism (1970); W. Pehnt, Expressionist Architecture (1973). In Literature In literature, expressionism is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism, seeking...
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and the Karlskirche or Church of San Carlo Borromeo (1715-37). He wrote A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (tr. 1973). Bibliography: See biography by H. Aurenhammer (tr. 1974).
Owings and Merrill Skidmore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...century the firm adopted a postmodern aesthetic, seen in such buildings as the Worldwide Plaza in New York City (1989). Bibliography: See A. Bush-Brown, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill: Architecture and Urbanism, 1973-1983 (1984).
Lynes, (Joseph) Russell (Jr.)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Art‐Makers of Nineteenth‐Century America (1970), putting art and architecture in its socialsetting; Good Old Modern (1973), on New York's Museum of Modern Art; and The Lively Audience (1985), a social history...
Brookings Report (1975)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...argued that the outcome of the 1967 and 1973 Arab – Israel wars favored a...work with Carter on a wider security "architecture" at the Trilateral Commission (a non-governmental organization established in 1973 to promote coordination between North...
François Mansart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Hôtel Carnavalet, now a museum. Bibliography: See A. Blunt, François Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture (1941); A. Braham and P. Smith, François Mansart (2 vol., 1973).
Frederick Law Olmsted
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Harvard's first course in landscape architecture. As a city planner he served on many...Olmsted's Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park, ed. by F. L. Olmsted, Jr., and T. Kimball (1928, repr. 1973); The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted...
Arata Isozaki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Isozaki also wrote about architecture and taught in several universities...In the 1970s Isozaki's architecture became more historical in...Oita City, constructed in 1973, which displays the love...Another French principle, architecture parlante (architecture that...
Wallace Kirkman Harrison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Pittsburgh (1952) and the Time-Life (1960) and Exxon (1973) buildings, both in New York City. He was probably the most effective large-scale coordinator in American architecture. His projects included Rockefeller Center , the UN Headquarters...
Stephen Edelston Toulmin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Southern California. Beginning in 1973 he was the professor of social thought...Foresight and Understanding (1960); The Architecture of Matter (co-authored, 1963); The...Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored, 1973), Knowing and Acting (1976); Metaphysical...

Dictionary entries related to "1973 in architecture"

Rational architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...delle città (Architecture of the City—...Milan Triennale (1973). Rational architecture embraced Renaissance...prefer to call Rational architecture Neo-Rationalism...Rossi et al. (1973); Jane Turner...
Architecture Studio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Architecture Studio. French architectural practice founded in Paris in 1973. It was responsible for the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (1981–7—with Jean Nouvel , Soria, and Lez...
Summerson, Sir John Newenham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...series of volumes with his Architecture in Britain 1530–...London resulted in Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation...of the Eighteen-Sixties (1973), and The Architecture of Victorian London (1976...
Price, Cedric
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...monumentality, and preservation in architecture were indefensible: not for...s dictum that ‘Architecture aims at Eternity’...1971, developed further in 1973. He believed that architecture should be active in preventive...
Prince, Bart
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Goff , imbibing the lat-ter's strong feeling for natural forms, and established his own office in 1973. An exponent of Organic architecture (in the sense of responding to the natural features of the site, and using sympathetic materials...
Action architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Action architecture. 1. Architecture evolved from sketches without precise...one concept. An example of Action architecture is Boston City Hall, MA. (1964...Bibliography P. Collins (1965); Jencks (1973 a ); Kallmann (1959)
Zevi, Bruno
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture (1948 and 1980), Storia dell' architettura moderna (1950 and 1973), and The Modern Language of Architecture (1973 and 1978). Opposed to International Modernism...
Fathy, Hassan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...in his search for an inexpensive architecture for the poor. At New Gourna, Luxor...his ideas. His writings include Architecture for the Poor (1973) and Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture (1986), and his individual dwellings...
Sottsass, Ettore
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Venice (1956); the Memphis furniture (from 1981); and the various projects for Nonsense Architecture and Pornographic Architecture (1973–7) deserve note. Sparke, in her critiques, has detected ‘antidesign...
Rogue architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Rogue architecture. Term used by H. S. Goodhart...x2013;1900), whose Victorian Architecture (1860) and Examples of the Architecture of the Victorian Age (1862...Raguer . Bibliography AH, xvi (1973), 60–9 and xlii...

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Theme: Centenary, 1952-1973. (architecture)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 5/1/1996; 700+ words ; ...term is derived from Le Corbusier's apophthegm that 'L'Architecture, c'est avec des matieres bruts, etablir des rapports...Complexity and Contradiction (p82) as a clarion call for making architecture the centre of architects' consideration. By this time...
St Louis and Washington University.(Book Reviews)(Modern Architecture in St. Louis--Washington University & Postwar American Architecture 1948-1973)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 9/1/2004; 700+ words ; 4412 Modern Architecture in St. Louis--Washington University & Postwar American Architecture 1948-1973, edited by Eric Mumford. School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri...
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill: architecture and urbanism 1973-1983.
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 9/1/1984; 532 words ; ...beautiful indeed, and the continuing quality of the work after a practice of almost half a century (the firm was founded in 1936) and after many changes of personnel is a testament to the continuing validity of modern architecture.
Patrimonies modernes: L'architecture du vingtieme siecle a Chicoutimi.(Le combat du patrimoine a Montreal, 1973-2003)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Urban History Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Patrimoines modernes: L'architecture du vingtieme siecle...patrimoine a Montreal (1973-2003). Sainte...Patrimoines modernes. L'architecture du vingtieme siecle...fortuit du projet d'architecture quel qu'il soit...patrimoine a Montreal (1973-2003), quant a lui...
Kenzo Tange is named the 1987 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
PR Newswire; 3/18/1987; 700+ words ; ...73, became interested in architecture while studying in another field. He entered the Architecture Department of Tokyo University...doctorates around the world. In 1973, when he received the French Architecture Academy's gold medal, he...
The literature of film exhibition: a bibliography: individual theaters, architecture and design, audiences, technical aspects, regional exhibition, alternative exhibition, technologies, journals and yearbooks, miscellany, biography, theater management, commerce, legal aspects, silent film accompaniment, and drive-ins.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Velvet Light Trap; 3/22/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...27-28. Amiel, M. "Architecture et cinema." Cinema...of 1930." Tabs (Dec. 1973): 174-82. "Bermuda...Architectural Record (Jan. 1973): 100-101. "Brooklyn Paramount Theatre." Architecture and Building (Jan. 1929...
Making Art, Not War: Revisiting the Battles of 1973, Amos Gitai Goes for the Gut (and Gets It)
Newspaper article from: Forward; 11/3/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Art, Not War: Revisiting the Battles of 1973, Amos Gitai Goes for the Gut (and Gets It...helicopter struck by a Syrian missile during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the young soldier and architecture student Amos Gitai decided to become a filmmaker...
No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Curator for the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the...1950-1972), and later Architecture Plus (1973-75). From these posts he...know many of the "greats" in architecture and the arts. Further, Blake...
Landscape Architect Neil Dean first speaker in K-sSate's 2003-2004 College of Architecture, Planning and Design lecture series.
M2 Presswire; 8/21/2003; 700+ words ; ...2003-2004 College of Architecture, Planning and Design...2003-2004 College of Architecture, Planning and Design...member of the firm since 1973, Dean has extensive experience in landscape architecture and urban open space design...
John D. McNee; chaired UIC architecture, art history dept.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/30/1986; 399 words ; ...chairman of the History of Architecture and Art Department at the...teaching in the History of Architecture and Art Department. He...Department. From 1971 to 1973, he was chairman of the History of Architecture and Art Department. While...