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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).
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...
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...
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...
Richard Rogers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...modernist who represented high tech architecture with his concern for advanced...their earliest designs (1971-1973) was for the small office building...IRCAM) in the center of Paris (1973-1977). This subterranean...Richard Rogers Partnership In 1973 Rogers married Ruth Elias and...
Aldo Rossi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...graduating from the Faculty of Architecture in 1959. While still a student...influential first book, The Architecture of the City, which proposed...the 15th Milan Triennale (1973) brought them to international...composition by Venice University (1973), he accepted academic appointments...
Richard Meier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and spatially rich modern architecture. By the mid-1980s Meier...1934, Richard Meier studied architecture at Cornell University, where...in New York. From 1963 to 1973 he taught at Cooper Union in...the Douglas House (1971-1973) at Harbor Springs, Michigan...

Dictionary entries related to "1973 in architecture"

Rational architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Rational architecture. Movement in late-C20 architecture that proposed reasonable and buildable...during the XVth Milan Triennale (1973). Rational architecture embraced...1982); A. Rossi et al. (1973); Jane Turner (1996)
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 ...Case for a Theory of Modern Architecture’, he made a forlorn...recognizing that Classical architecture had always had just that...fraction of Nash's scenographic architecture around Regent's Park should...of the Eighteen-Sixties (1973), and The Architecture of...
Price, Cedric
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...loose-fit’ architecture, he projected the Fun Palace...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...
Zevi, Bruno
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...included Towards an Organic Architecture (1945 and 1955), Architecture...architettura moderna (1950 and 1973), and The Modern Language of Architecture (1973 and 1978). Opposed to International...1996); Zevi (1950, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980...
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...
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...
Ersatz architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Ersatz architecture. Indiscriminately eclectic architecture with motifs taken from many sources (not copied...one of many inventions of Charles Jencks ( c. 1973). Bibliography Anno Domini, xliii/9 (1973), 596–601
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)
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...George Anselevicius (1967-1973), Constantine Michaelides (1973-1993), and Cynthia Weese...
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 ; ...patrimoine a Montreal (1973-2003). Sainte...publies a propos de I'architecture des villes quebecoises...historien de I'architecture Claude Bergeron, Architectures du XXe siecle au Quebec...Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Les annees 60...patrimoine a Montreal (1973-2003), quant a...
Kenzo Tange is named the 1987 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
PR Newswire; 3/18/1987; 700+ words ; ...1987 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is the ninth recipient...stimulated the quest for an architecture that can again elevate the...been quoted as saying, 'Architecture must have something that appeals...doctorates around the world. In 1973, when he received the French...
No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept...on the Modern Movement in architecture in the era between the wars...Curator for the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the...later Architecture Plus (1973-75). From these posts...
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 ; ...Stoddard's Theatre and Cinema Architecture, and "International Bibliography...Theater, Washington, D.C." Architecture and Building (Mar. 1924...Vic of 1930." Tabs (Dec. 1973): 174-82. "Bermuda Theater...Architectural Record (Jan. 1973): 100-101. "Brooklyn...
ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS LAUNCH HOSPITAL DESIGN COLLABORATION WITH FACT-FINDING TRIP TO BOCA RATON, FLA.
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/28/2007; 700+ words ; ...University's College of Architecture are cooperating with international architecture and construction firm HKS...three separate College of Architecture design studios, traveled...health" initiative since 1973. The firm has been commissioned...
Juan Bonta Dies at Age 62; U-Md. Architecture Professor
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/7/1996; 700+ words ; Juan Bonta, 62, an architecture professor who had taught at...publications included the book "Architecture and Its Interpretations...architecture and where he taught until 1973. He lectured at the University...moving to the United States in 1973 to teach at Ball State University...
Texas A&M architecture students design sustainable medical center for Texas Health Resources
Magazine article from: Healthcare Design; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Texas A&M University architecture students unveiled 14 different...students are enrolled in an Architecture for Health studio directed...A&M's College of Architecture. HKS Executive Vice-President...advisory teaching firm since 1973, HKS has worked closely with...