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  2. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect Le Corbusier. [1] It outlines five key principles of design that he considered to be the foundations of the modern architectural discipline, which would be expressed through much of his designs.

  3. Proportion (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In classical architecture, proportions were set by the radii of columns. Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole.

  4. Louis Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) [1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" [2] and "father of modernism". [3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

  5. The Sixteen Principles of Urban Design - Wikipedia

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    The "central axis" was to create a new representation Magistrale arise between the Brandenburg Gate and Alexanderplatz, the center of the monumental height dominant – should be in place of the castle, the central government building – as a "city crown" the Marx-Engels-Platz. In 1951, Stalinallee emerged as the first Socialist avenue in the GDR.

  6. Architectural theory - Wikipedia

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    Architectural discourse from the illustrated French Dictionary of Architecture (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects.

  7. Sightline (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The Paris axe historique: the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, and the Grande Arche of La Défense are all on the same visual axis. In architecture and urban planning, sightlines or vistas [1] are a consideration in the design of civic structures, such as a stage, arena, or ...

  8. Corbel arch - Wikipedia

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    Basic principle of the corbeled arch design ("false arch"). For the sake of comparison, a semicircular arch with wedge-shaped voussoirs maintained by a central keystone (" true arch"). A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch ) is an arch -like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in ...

  9. French formal garden - Wikipedia

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    The axis extends either all the way to the horizon (Versailles) or to piece of statuary or architecture (Vaux-le-Vicomte). The axis faces either South (Vaux-le-Vicomte, Meudon) or east–west (Tuileries, Clagny, Trianon, Sceaux). The principal axis is composed of a lawn, or a basin of water, bordered by trees.