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The centerpiece of this plan was a group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in curtain walls of glass. The skyscrapers housed both offices and the flats of the most wealthy inhabitants [citation needed]. These skyscrapers were set within large, rectangular park-like green spaces.
MD2 — Design found in Barber's Modern Dwellings and Their Proper Construction (2nd ed., 1899) ART — Design found in Barber's Art In Architecture (c. 1901) MD3 — Design found in Barber & Kluttz's Modern Dwellings: A Book of Practical Designs and Plans for Those who wish to Build or Beautify Their Homes (3rd ed., 1901)
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.
George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]
Les Halles centrales (1854–1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall; St. Eustache (church) – remodel; Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (church) – remodel; St. Augustin (church) (1860–1871) Garnier's Paris Opera. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival
French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the Colonial period were especially designed for the hot, wet climate of that region. Traditional French Creole homes had some or all of these features:
The Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI.French architectural styles before the French Revolution were governed by Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, by the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
The Grands Projets of François Mitterrand (variants: Grands Travaux [ɡʁɑ̃ tʁavo] or Grands Projets Culturels [ɡʁɑ̃ pʁɔʒɛ kyltyʁɛl]; officially: Grandes Opérations d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme [ɡʁɑ̃dz‿ɔpeʁasjɔ̃ daʁʃitɛktyʁ e dyʁbanism]) was an architectural programme to provide modern monuments in Paris, the city of monuments, symbolising France's role in art ...