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Robert Adam FRIAS (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles. Adam is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and Design Council Expert.
The emphatically classical church façade of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (1578–90) was designed by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.. During the Italian Renaissance and with the demise of Gothic style, major efforts were made by architects such as Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola to revive the language of architecture of first and ...
Alexander Tzonis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Τζώνης; born November 8, 1937) is a Greek-born architect, author, and researcher.He has made contributions to architectural theory, history and design cognition, bringing together scientific and humanistic approaches in a synthesis.
Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan ...
Allan Greenberg (born September 7, 1938) is an American architect and one of the leading classical architects of the twenty-first century, also known as New Classical Architecture. [1] He was the originator and leading practitioner of "canonical classicism," one of many design responses to postmodernism emerging in the mid-1970s. [2]
The aptly named Slender House, by Indian firm Spaces Architects@KA, was built on a plot in Delhi measuring just 6 meters (19.7 feet) wide. - 2024 World Architecture Festival
The Park Row Building in New York, designed by Robertson (completed 1899) Witherspoon Hall of Princeton University (Potter & Robertson, built 1875–77) The Charles H. Baldwin House in Newport, Rhode Island (Potter & Robertson, built 1877–78) The Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey (Potter & Robertson, completed 1879) Camp Santanoni main lodge, for Robert C. Pruyn (built 1892 ...
The Acropolis of Athens, a World Heritage Site in Athens, Greece. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical architecture: . Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome.