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11 unusual facts about architecture


Albert Besson

At the end of his life, he was also asked to give lectures about human habitation hygiene at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, where future empress Farah Diba was one of his students.

Casa Wiechers-Villaronga

Wiechers was born in Ponce and studied at the School of Architecture in Paris, France, in 1901, where he obtained a gold medal for outstanding achievement and excellence during his professional studies.

École Spéciale d'Architecture

The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the educational monopoly of Beaux-Arts architecture.

François Valentiny

From 1987 to 1992 he was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Trier and in 1991 he became Luxembourg’s first representative at the Venice Biennale of Architecture

Jean-Louis Cohen

Cohen was born in Paris and trained as an architect at the École Spéciale d'Architecture and at the Unité Pédagogique n° 6 in Paris, graduating in 1973 and then receiving his post-graduate diploma Architecte DPLG (Architecte diplômé par le gouvernement) in 1979.

Kunsthaus Bregenz

The Kunsthaus Bregenz was designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1998.

Nat Yontararak

For college, he attended Chulalongkorn University, and graduated with a degree from the Faculty of Architecture.

NJIT Capstone Program

The course can also be taken as an elective by students from other disciplines at the school, such as Management, Engineering, or Architecture.

No Experience Required

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Rui Torres

-- maybe he recorded them in Mexico, or in the USA--> Torres decided to go back to Mexico, to dedicate more time to his family and friends, and mostly to continue his studies in the Architecture career.

Syndicat de l'Architecture

The Syndicat de l'Architecture is a French labor union for architects co-founded by Jean Nouvel.


Alfred Brehm

He continued his studies there until September 1846, when he left for Dresden in order to study architecture; however, he stopped after two semesters because Johann Wilhelm von Müller, a well-known ornithologist, was looking for a companion for an African expedition.

Anna Heringer

She studied architecture at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria, graduating in 2004.

Bărboi Church

The church's spacious Byzantine interior is composed of three naves: a central one and two lateral ones, divided by columns of Carrara marble topped by Corinthian capitals.

Berenice Abbott

Two decades later, Abbott and McCausland traveled US 1 from Florida to Maine, and Abbott photographed the small towns and growing automobile-related architecture.

Blackford County Courthouse

Among other expenses included in the total were $2,000 paid to the E. Howard Clock Company of Boston, $7,000 for furniture paid to the H. Ohmer and Sons Company, and $6,158 for architecture.

Boris Zeisser

Inspired by multiple visits to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and this type of relation between architecture and nature, Boris Zeisser decided to study and practice architecture.

Brick House Ruins

1675 Chateau de la Haye d'Esquermes near Loos les Lille, France, evidence of the French influence in its architecture is seen through many stucco enrichments to the exterior and its high-pitched roof.

Carl Spielvogel

Mr. Spielvogel lives in New York City, with his wife Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the author of 19 books on art, architecture and public policy.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects

Canadian born architect Donald Schmitt studied architecture at the University of Toronto, and has been in practice with Jack Diamond since 1978.

Dillington House

Designed by Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Purcell Miller Tritton, the building won the 2010 South-West Region Architecture Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Douglas Cardinal

In 1953, he attended the University of British Columbia; he later attended the University of Texas at Austin, from which he graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1963.

Erich Windisch

Windisch also studied architecture and built three houses - one in Vail and two in Dillon, Colorado.

Fatimid architecture

According to Ira M. Lapidus, public architecture under the Fatimids was an "extension of the ceremonial aspects of the royal court", and was also intricately made.

Fivay High School

Fivay High School was designed by Florida-based architecture firm Harvard Jolly.

Franklin Toker

Franklin Toker is a professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of eight books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the excavations he conducted under Santa Reparata, Florence to 21st century American Urbanism.

Frederick Whitehead

Although he predominantly painted landscapes, he also concentrated occasionally on religious architecture, such as St Mary’s, Warwick, and Gloucester Cathedral.

Freescale ColdFire

The Freescale ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor division of Motorola).

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

IBM System/38

(The earlier Plessey 250 was one of the few other computers with capability architecture ever sold commercially).

ICL Series 39

Trimetra in turn was replaced by Fujitsu's mainframe platform, Nova, which emulates the Trimetra architecture on generic Unisys ES7000 Intel-based server hardware.

Jagraon

The old walled city, with its four gates is known locally for its Mughal period architecture.

Jogighopa

Within the city are the remains of the five rock cut rock-cut caves, examples of Salasthambha period architecture.

La Trampa

The new staff came in scene along with El Cuarteto de Nos, on Friday May 7, 1993, inside the building of the Architecture University (Facultad de Arquitectura) .

Lomaland

The building combines late-Victorian wooden architecture with historical motifs such as the modified Corinthian column (now shaped like a papyrus leaf) and flattened arches.

Louis Sawyer House

All of these features combine to make it one of metro Cincinnati's best examples of the Shingle variant of the Queen Anne style of architecture.

Malcolm Parry

Parry has presented several programmes about architecture on BBC television, including The House of the Future and On the House, as well as Building on the Past and Work Matter for BBC Radio Wales.

Manned Venus Flyby

As a "Plan B" in case the proposed Inspiration Mars fly-by of Mars missed its 2018 launch window, in November 2013 Dennis Tito proposed a different mission architecture whereby the mission craft would first fly-by Venus, using Venus in a gravitational slingshot to speed the craft's onward journey to Mars.

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Muhlenberg Greene Architects

Frequently confused with the Muhlenberg Brothers, an architecture/engineering firm also operating in Reading, Pennsylvania during the first half of the 20th century, Muhlenberg Greene Architects was never affiliated with Muhlenberg Brothers’ firm, although Frederick Muhlenberg does have familial ties with the Brothers.

New Amsterdam, Guyana

Gradually, however, it acquired a character of its own, and to its credit it still boasts (among many other advantages) what is arguably the best example of Cesar Castellani's architecture extant, namely, the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA), Oracle applications built on top of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack using Oracle Fusion Architecture as blueprint

Portico of Pompey

The colonnades contained arcades and gallaries that displayed sculptures and paintings collected from years of war campaigns of its patron and builder, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy also drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

Reference architecture

AUTOSAR is a component-based reference architecture for automotive software architectures.

Rex Addison

He was resonance with the rich mix of friendly materials created by Frank Lloyd Wright when he started his architecture studies.

Rocky Mountain National Park

The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.

Shaheed Ganj Mosque

It had a projecting mehrab (niche), facing toward Mecca as in all mosques, in the centre of the west wall where the imam leads the prayers.

St David's Church, Exeter

The current building was completed in 1900 and was described by John Betjeman as "the finest example of Victorian church architecture in the south west".

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

Among those who gave classes were suffragist Louisa Lawson, explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and poet Henry Kendall, and subjects included art, mathematics, architecture, anatomy and simple surgery.

Temple of Isthmia

Furthermore, future excavations may be able to uncover more evidence on the temples relation to Doric architecture and so overall bring together a clearer picture of the changes that occurred as Greece moved on from the Iron Age into the Classical period.

The Four Elements of Architecture

Published in 1851, it is an attempt to explain the origins of architecture through the lens of anthropology.

The Rule of Four

The disciplines of Renaissance science, history, architecture, and art are drawn upon to solve the mystery.

Torksey Castle

Brick at the time, although having been used previously, had rarely been in use in British secular architecture before this period.

University of Arkansas Campus Historic District

It also gained the Landscape Architecture and Air Force ROTC departments.

University of Florida student housing

Grove Hall (1946–1977) - Reconstructed military building relocated from Camp Blanding located on the current site of the Architecture and Fine Arts colleges

Victor Turpo

In 1968, he graduated from the Regional School of Art Carlos Bacaflor, Arequipa, Peru and in 1980 obtained a bachelor degree in architecture with a specialization in exterior and interior at the UNSA (National University of St Augustin of Arequipa)

VoltDB

Stored procedures are executed serially and to completion in a single threaded without any locking or latching, similar to the LMAX architecture.

Welsh School of Architecture

Prof Malcolm Parry - TV personality and former Head of the School of Architecture