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The Exner equation describes conservation of mass between sediment in the bed of a channel and sediment that is being transported. [1] It states that bed elevation increases (the bed aggrades) proportionally to the amount of sediment that drops out of transport, and conversely decreases (the bed degrades) proportionally to the amount of sediment that becomes entrained by the flow.
This affected the designs of capitals. A traditional 15th-century variant of the Composite capital turns the volutes inwards above stiffened leaf carving. In new Renaissance combinations in capital designs most of the ornament can be traced to Classical Roman sources. The 'Renaissance' was as much a reinterpretation as a revival of Classical norms.
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 ...
DAC-1 (1963-1964) was a CAD-like program developed by General Motors. The first attempts to separate the CAAD from generic CAD were made in the 1970s. [6] The practical commercial tools for architecture design and building information modeling appeared a decade later, in the 1980s. [7]
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New Classical architecture, also known as New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture, [1] is a contemporary movement that builds upon the principles of ...
Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome. It also refers to the style or styles of architecture influenced by those. For example, most of the styles originating in post-Renaissance Europe can be described as classical architecture.
A bitumen assembly area to the south of Block A was formed in the second half of the 1950s, but no longer exists. [98] In 2018, a section of brick retaining wall and garden bed southeast of Block A, the flagpole, driveway and brick gateposts are extant. [1] Alterations to Block A have been made since its construction.