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John Wood
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William Burke Wood
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Grinling Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons 1648-1721, English wood carver and sculptor, b. Rotterdam. From the reign of Charles II to that of George I he was master wood carver to the crown. Sir Christopher Wren employed him for architectural decoration. Blenheim, Whitehall Palace, and the library of Trinity College,... Read more |
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lintel
lintel in architecture, the horizontal member that spans an opening, such as a door or window, or that connects two columns. The post-and-lintel, or trabeated, system of construction, with spans limited to the length of available wood or stone beams, is the basis of the Egyptian and Greek styles of... Read more |
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Granville T. Woods
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Christopher Wood
Wood, Christopher (1901–1930). British painter, mainly of landscapes, harbour scenes, and figure compositions. He was born at Knowsley, near Liverpool, and briefly studied architecture at Liverpool University. In 1921 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and subsequently travelled... Read more |
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Wood products
Wood and Wood Products Wood and wood products have played a critical role in the evolution of humankind. From the most primitive of beginnings, humans have used wood for survival and to improve the quality of life. In the twenty-first century, people continue to use wood for... Read more |
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Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only survives fragmentarily and even what remains is not necessarily representative of what once existed. Our view of architecture, for example, is distorted by the near-total loss of all wooden buildings and by the Norman destruction of all pre-Conquest... Read more |
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KI
KI 1330 Bellevue StreetGreen Bay, Wisconsin 54302U.S.A.Telephone: (920) 468-8100Toll Free: (800) 424-2432Fax: (920) 468-0280Web site: http://www.ki.com Private CompanyFounded: 1941 as Krueger Metal ProductsEmployees: 3,500Sales: $600 million (2002 est.)NAIC: 337211 Wood Office Furniture... Read more |
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Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only survives fragmentarily...once existed. Our view of architecture, for example, is distorted...cathedrals. Similarly art in wood and fabric is now rare and...medium of almost all secular architecture and our information ... |
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Russian architecture
Russian architecture Architectural style that...Russia. Important centres of architecture developed at Kiev, Novgorod...Early churches were built of wood. The Cathedral of Sancta...revival of medieval Russian architecture. |
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Greek art and architecture
Greek art and architecture Greek architecture came into its own in the 6th century bc, when stone replaced wood as the building material for civic...buildings. Distinct orders of architecture began to emerge. The earliest... |
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Japanese art and architecture
Japanese art and architecture Earliest surviving examples...art and design. Japanese architecture derives from 6th-century...roofs and thin exterior wood and plaster walls. A...walls are movable panels of wood or rice paper that slide... |
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Bath
...century (under the direction of Beau Nash), the city became a fashionable resort. John Wood transformed the city into a showcase for Georgian architecture: the Royal Crescent, Queen Square, and the Circus are among his notable achievements... |
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Prairie Region
...and Hemingway. The paintings of Grant Wood are expressive of the life of rural Iowa...were the first of the Chicago school in architecture that has influenced urban construction by...s “Prairie style” of domestic architecture was designed to be appropriate to the... |
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Morris, William
...designed by Philip Webb, and was an important landmark in domestic architecture. The failure to find suitable furniture for it...1890), The Story of the Glittering Plain (1890), The Wood beyond the World (1894), and The Sundering Flood (1898... |
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Kipling, Rudyard
...Kipling was born in Bombay, where his father had a chair in architecture. His first name is derived from Rudyard Lake, near Leek (Staffs...Roman period, in 1906. His poem ‘The Way through the Woods’—a lovely example of controlled nostalgia—was in... |
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Sheraton, Thomas
...Drawing Book (1791–4), including treatises on geometry, architecture, and perspective. A fervent baptist, he also published...purposes, always enhancing the beauty and qualities of the woods. Although influential, none of Sheraton's books brought... |
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Acoustics
...the sound and so prevented echoes, and the large amount of wood used in the buildings meant that the orchestral tone was adequate...on its opening in 1705, to have sacrificed audibility to architecture. It was said that scarcely one word in ten could be heard... |
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New Wood Architecture.(Wood Houses)(Brief article)(Book review)
...nuances and niceties of timber architecture now under her belt, Ruth Slavid...rapidly assuming the mantle of Wood Queen. This latest, Wood Houses, London, Laurence...from last year's New Wood Architecture (AR May 2005) and narrows... |
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Exhibition on Malay architecture, wood carvings
...Straits Times 06-07-2001 Exhibition on Malay architecture, wood carvingsEdition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*Section...seminar and a month-long exhibition on Malay architecture and wood carvings at its Museum of Asian Art. The exhibition... |
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Architecture in Wood: A World History
BOOK Architecture in Wood: A World History By Will Price...structures. As Will Pryce points out in Architecture in Wood - A World History, this...produced an acclaimed book on brick architecture (AJ 29.01.04), although for... |
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Architecture in Wood: A World History.(Brief article)(Book review)
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Kondopoga, from Architecture in Wood: A World History, by Will Pryce, London: Thames & Hudson, 2005, [pounds sterling]39.95. Dating from around 1774, the... |
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Program to Award Best in Wood Architecture.(Wood Design Awards Program)(Brief...
* The Wood Design Awards Program, a long-time American Wood Council program, has been revived. The program will now...offered in the United States and Canada by the American Wood Council and the Canadian Wood Council. The Wood Design... |
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Wood spirit. (use of wood in architecture)
Wood is the most humanly sympathetic...senses. Its use has informed architecture from time immemorial: indeed...ways in which wood is used in architecture today. Many of our deepest perceptions of architecture come from wood. ... |
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Hillier Architecture: Jennifer Wood.(WHO'S NEWS in CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN)
Hillier Architecture announced that Jennifer Wood has been appointed as an associate. A senior, interior designer, Wood is currently working on office designs...Capital Partners and Duke University. Wood holds a B.F.A. in interior design... |
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New Lithuanian architecture and wood--trends to update tradition/Naujoji...
Ivadas Sis straipsnis yra testinio tyrimo dalis. Ankstesneje publikacijoje skirtas demesys sovietmecio medinei Lietuvos architekturai. Tuomet primirstas, pirmaisiais pokario desimtmeciais medis dazniausiai buvo naudotas tik mazaauksciu namu statyboje ir tik nuo 7 desimtmecio pasaulines regionalizmo |
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The triumvirate of Modernism.(Another Modern, the Post-war Architecture and...
...MODERN, THE POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM OF CANDILIS-JOSIC-WOODS By Tom Avermaete. Rotterdam...Candilis-Josic-Woods' architecture and urbanism since the...as a 'new language of architecture generated by patterns... |
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Sienna Architecture Co. in Portland hires Wood
Sienna Architecture Co. has hired Anne Wood as an administrative assistant. Wood has 17 years of administrative experience. |
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