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He then apprenticed with noted architects in the Chicago school of architecture, particularly Louis Sullivan. Wright opened his own successful Chicago practice in 1893, and developed an influential home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois. In the 20th century, he became one of the most renowned architects in the world. [2] [3]
Scully (right) at the National Building Museum hands over the 2005 Scully Prize to Charles, Prince of Wales (left). Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (August 21, 1920 – November 30, 2017) [1] was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject.
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe. A form of historicist architecture, it
To rectify this shortcoming, when he was invited to suggest ideas for future publications by Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, he proposed a series of comprehensive architectural guides to the English counties. Work on The Buildings of England began in 1945. Lane employed two part-time assistants, both German refugee art historians, who ...
This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944). Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.
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L'architecture comme sémio-physique de l'espace social. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004. ISBN 978-2747550789; Patrice Ceccarini, Le système architectural gothique. Théologie sciences et architecture au XIII° siècle à Saint-Denis (Tome 2). Morphogenèse et modélisation de la basilique de Saint-Denis (in French). Paris, Editions de l'Harmattan, 2013.