Architecture
Related: archeology - building - city - design - house (building) - landscape - shelter - ruin
The Hot House (1984) - Andrea Branzi [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
The Hot House (1984) is one of the best books around on architecture, with details of 1960s and 1970s radical design and architecture. Recommended and now cheaply available at Amazon.com.
Architectural movements and styles: Archigram - Archizoom - Art Deco - Art Nouveau - Bauhaus - futurist architecture - gothic architecture - Googie space age - International Style - modern architecture - postmodern architecture - retro-futurism - Superstudio - vernacular architecture - visionary architecture
Architects: Étienne-Louis Boullée - Le Corbusier - Antoni Gaudi - Frank Gehry - Baron Haussmann - Gaetano Pesce - Ettore Sottsass
Theory: Anrea Branzi - Charles Jencks - Rem Koolhaas - Adolf Loos - Paul Virilio
Sites: Bomarzo park, Italy
San Gimignano is the only Italian town with the Medieval towers of its family palaces intact.
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Highgate Cemetery, London
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Palais Idéal (1879 - 1924) - Ferdinand Cheval
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Drawing by Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799)
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The Crystal Palace (1851) - Joseph Paxton
Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany (1926) - Walter Gropius
Butler House (1936) - George Kraetsch and E.E. Butler [Des Moines, Iowa]
High Desert Home - Kendrick Bangs Kellogg
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Definition
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of town planning, urban design and landscape to the microlevel of furniture and product design. Architecture, equally importantly, also refers to the product of such a design. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture [2004]
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