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Romano Roland Paoletti, CBE (23 April 1931 – 13 November 2013) was a British-Italian architect. He was best known for his work on the early stations for Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway, and for commissioning the award-winning designs of the stations of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension.
The MART originated in 1987 as an autonomous entity within the autonomous Trentino province. It was installed in the Palazzo delle Albere in Trento. [1] The idea of expanding the museum to combine both the legacy of the great futurist Fortunato Depero and the disparate inheritance held by the Trento Regional Arts Museum ("Museo Provinciale d'Arte di Trento") dates back to 1991, and was the ...
National Design Academy, in Nottingham (heritage interior design). [43] The Prince's Foundation for Building Community, in London. The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, in London. Unit 6 of the Kingston School of Art's Master of Architecture program, [44] the only postgraduate unit in the United Kingdom to teach classical design. Previously ...
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.
Particularly, this design ethos reconciled the modern aesthetic ideals with religion, since this particular motif was not inimical to the priorities of the modern Italian architects. It gave rise to the so-called "secular-spirituality" – an element in Italian modernism – that focuses on the concept of enlightened rationalism. [1]
The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (French: Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, MUDAC) is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Metaphoric architecture is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the mid-20th century. [1]It is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism whilst others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture.
Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti (pronounced [ˈɡaːe auˈlɛnti]; 4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer.Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy.