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  2. Robert Kerr (architect) - Wikipedia

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    The battle of the styles, in: The Builder 18:1860, 292-294; On the problem of providing dwellings for the poor in towns, in: RIBA transactions 17:1866/67, 37-80; A development of the theory of the architecturesque, in: RIBA transactions 19:1868/69, 89-103; The late Mr Beresford-Hope and the Gothic revival, in: RIBA proceedings 4:1888(11)219-220

  3. Architectural style - Wikipedia

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    The concept of architectural style is studied in the architectural history as one of the approaches ("style and period") that are used to organize the history of architecture (Leach lists five other approaches as "biography, geography and culture, type, technique, theme and analogy"). [5]

  4. Outline of architecture - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is an overview and topical guide to architecture:. Architecture – the process and the product of designing and constructing buildings. Architectural works with a certain indefinable combination of design quality and external circumstances may become cultural symbols and / or be considered works of art.

  5. Critical spatial practice - Wikipedia

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    The term ‘critical spatial practice’ refers to forms of practice between art and architecture.Jane Rendell introduced the term in 2003. [1] Rendell later consolidated and developed the term as one that defined practices located at a three-way intersection: between theory and practice, public and private, and art and architecture.

  6. Morphology (architecture and engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Although many models have been developed in geography and urban planning fields, encompassing assorted complexities one which holds its widely used and early status is the concentric zone model. [10] The concentric Zone Model provided a stylized description of the urban form, derived from Ernest Burgess 's 1920's idea: the bid-rent curve .

  7. Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design) - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, spatial design, literary theory, and film theory—affective atmosphere (colloquially called atmosphere) refers to the mood, situation, or sensorial qualities of a space. [1] Spaces containing atmosphere are shaped through subjective and intersubjective interactions with the qualia of the architecture. [2]

  8. Geocriticism - Wikipedia

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    Moretti has also promulgated a theory of literary history, or literary geography, that would use maps to bring to light new connections between the texts studied and their social spaces. [5] And, in his study of Herman Melville's literary cartography, Robert Tally has offered a geocritical approach to certain texts.

  9. Philosophy of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Art, set in the conditions of mechanical reproduction of the image, was forced to look for new ways. Around the same time architectural styles of Constructivism and Functionalism find way to justify new, totally engineering aesthetics. Side of the architecture, which had been considered a shame (as a sign of its connection with the pragmatic ...