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• 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture: Gothic
Architectural details predominate in this collection of photographs from Thais.
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• 15th-Century Italian Architecture
San Jose State University provides an extensive gallery of expandable images, accessed via pull-down menu and selection from an array. Basic information is given for each.
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• 16th-Century Italian Architecture
San Jose State University provides an extensive gallery of expandable images, accessed via pull-down menu and selection from an array. Basic information is given for each.
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• 17th-Century Architecture
Images from Prof Jeffery Howe, Boston College, of Rubens' houses and the Church of St Charles Borromeo in Antwerp, Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, France.
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• 17th-Century Italian Architecture
San Jose State University provides an extensive gallery of expandable images, accessed via pull-down menu and selection from an array. Basic information is given for each.
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• 1902 - Cities of Modern Style
Surveys by Walter Gamba of Art Nouveau buildings in Turin and Paris: photographs, dates, architects and commentary. Also an introduction to the Modernist movement in Europe.
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• 19th Century Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt
Photos and descriptive information on the man who designed The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
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• 20th Century Architecture: Alvar Aalto
Photos and information from the Digital Archive and American Architecture.
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• 20th Century Architecture: Walter Gropius
Biographical sketch plus photos of the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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• 20th Century Architecture: Mies van der Rohe
Photos and information from the Digital Archive and American Architecture.
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• 78 Derngate
Describes the restoration work on this unique house in Northampton, remodelled in 1916-17 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for W. J. Bassett-Lowke.
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• A Civic Architect for San Diego: The Work of William Templeton Johnson
Biography of the architect (lived 1877-1957), with emphasis on his Spanish Mission and Spanish Revival work. Includes drawings and photographs of San Diego buildings he designed.
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• A Fuller Universe
An illustrated article by Beedge from New Dimensions Journal on the influential ideas of Buckminster Fuller. Also audio clips of commentary on Fuller by colleague Amy Edmondson and others.
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• A Gazetteer of the Roman World
This section of Bill Thayer's huge Lacus Curtius site provides many photographs of cities and monuments of the ancient Roman world, some with detailed commentary.
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• A Gothic Revival Church
Architectural drawings by Richard Upjohn in the Library of Congress, introduced with a brief biography of this key figure in introducing the Gothic Revival to the United States.
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• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
Online text of the book by A.J. Downing, published in 1859, from Making of America Books.
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• A White House History
The official site gives a virtual tour via a sensitive cut-away drawing. Photographs and history room-by-room of the home of U.S. presidents, designed by Irish-born James Hoban.
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• About Phoenix - Taliesin West
Page with description of Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Scottsdale, Arizona, with links to related resources.
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• About Pittsburgh - Kentuck Knob
About.com history, photos, and travel guide to Kentuck Knob, the Frank Lloyd Wright house located near Fallingwater in western Pennsylvania
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• About.com Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright in California
A guide to visiting all the architect's publicly accessible buildings in the state.
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• Acropolis 360
A virtual tour by Immersive360 of the ancient monuments at the heart of Athens. It combines 360-degree Quicktime panoramas, accessed via map and reconstruction drawing, with commentary and music.
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• Adolf Cluss
German-born, he became the most influential architect in Washington in the late 19th century. Includes biography, photographs and information on a centenary exhibition and other events planned in 2005. English and German.
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• Adolf Loos
Biography of the architect in Great Buildings Online, with information on selected works in Austria.
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• Adolf Loos
Brief biography and pictorial survey of the work (built and unbuilt) of the ardent anti-ornamentalist, author of 'Ornament and Crime', by Rein Saariste. Part of the Agram database.
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• Adolf Loos (1870-1933)
Biography and works of this innovatory modern architect from the Austrian National Tourist Office.
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• Against Functionalism
Yve-Alain Bois looks back at the centennial year celebrations of Le Corbusier, particularly two shows in Paris: Beaubourg's at the Centre Pompidou and that by the Hotel de Sully.
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• Agram
A database by R. Saariste of the work of some historically important architects, with photographs, drawings, and models. The architects covered are: Le Corbusier, Jujol, Loos, Duiker, Schinkel, Wright and Melnikov.
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• Agua Caliente Tijuana, Mexico
Wayne and Corinne McAllister designed the Spanish Colonial style Agua Caliente Hotel and Casino in Tijuana Mexico while still in their teens in 1928. Illustrated description.
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• Albert Frey
The Palm Springs Desert Museum has inherited Frey's residence at Palm Springs. History, description, images and web-cam of Frey House II, together with photograph and biography of the Modernist architect.
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• Albert Kahn: The Architect of the Auto Industrialists
Illustrated article by Vivian M. Baulch from Detroit News on the German-born industrial architect who worked in Detroit.
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• Alberti Bibliography
A scholarly bibliography by Michel Paoli on the Italian humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472). Introductory text in French, Italian and English. A few works listed are in English.
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• Alberti Photogrammetric Drawings
Drawings from rectified photographs of the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) provided by the Centre for Advanced Architectural Studies, Bath, UK.
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• Aldo Rossi (1931- 1997)
Pritzker Architecture Prize site offers a brief biography of the Italian anti-Modernist, 1990 citation by the jury, his acceptance speech and 'Aldo Rossi's Architecture of Recollection' by Kurt W. Forster.
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• Aldo Rossi's Last Project
Design Boom presents sketches, drawings and description by Aldo Rossi for Ca' di Cozzi: a project in Verona with shops, offices and apartments. Also a photograph and biography of Rossi.
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• Aldo van Eyck
Biogragraphy of the Dutch architect from Great Buildings Online with references, and a list of his works, with images or details of some.
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• Alexander Greek Thomson: Antiquity Rediscovered
A guide to Thomson's architectural work in Glasgow by Gerry Blaikie, part of his Glasgow and Edinburgh: A trail of two cities, illustrated with his own drawings of buildings.
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• Alexander Thomson
Photograph of the Glaswegian architect and two pages of expandable photographs of his works from the Glasgow Guide.
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• Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)
Brief notes on the Victorian architect from Bob Speel.
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• All Saints Episcopal Church: Gordon Lloyd
Michigan Historical Markers page on this church in Saugatuck designed by Gordon W. Lloyd. Includes photo of church and links to other Lloyd building pages.
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• All Saints Margaret Street
Designed by William Butterfield, a red brick composition on three sides of a small courtyard, with a lavish interior decoration of marbles and polychrome tile, and the second highest spire in London. An unofficial site by Matthew Duckett.
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