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Kit-of-parts philosophy goes hand in hand with advanced manufacturing, automation, and computer and information technologies. Handling multiple identical components as instances of a master element is an efficient use of the computer in the planning stage, and use of standard components can take advantage of mass-production and mass ...
Architecture Advocacy: Architects Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH) [5] See also: J. Max Bond Jr. Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) network [6] Design as Protest Collective [7] Beyond the Built Environment [8] 400 Forward [9] First 500 [10] Hip Hop Architecture Camp [11] NOMA Project Pipeline [12] ACE Mentor Program [13]
Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding "van der" and his mother's maiden name "Rohe" [7] [8] and using the Dutch "van der", because the German form "von" was a nobiliary particle legally restricted to those of German nobility lineage. [9]
A kit is a set of components that has to be assembled by the buyer or at the site of use to get the definitive product. Examples: Electronic kit, a package of electrical components used to build an electronic device. Kit car ("component car"), an automobile that the buyer assembles into a functioning car; Kit bike; Folding kayak; Tent
Parts books were often issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer this information digitally in an electronic parts catalogue. This can be locally installed software, or a centrally hosted web application. Usually, an electronic parts catalogue enables the user to virtually disassemble the product ...
Consequently, a scaled-down model of the Bacardí project this time rendered in steel rather than concrete was created. In March 1961, Mies also received a letter from the Senator for Building and Housing in Berlin, inviting him to build what was to be called the Neue Nationalgalerie, an exhibition space for the state's collection of early ...
The Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design is a building under construction on the campus of Indiana University. The building is based upon plans Mies van der Rohe created in 1952.
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]