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In light-frame construction, a trimmer is a timber or metal beam (joist) used to create an opening around a stairwell, skylight, chimney, and the like. Trimmers are installed parallel to the primary floor or ceiling joists and support headers, which run perpendicular to the primary joists.
Architecture, the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic ends.
Francis D.K. Ching – author of books on architectural graphics; Sidney S. Culbert – psychologist and Esperantist; major influence in the design of cockpit instrument panels in the Boeing 707 jet aircraft through his research in perception; Stuart Dempster – composer, trombonist, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
The College of Built Environments is the architecture and urban planning school of the University of Washington, a public research university in Seattle, Washington. [2]The College offers programs in architecture, construction management, landscape architecture, real estate, and urban planning. [3]
The full display of iconography across multiple caves for Vishnu, Shiva and Durga suggests that Hinduism was thriving along with Buddhism in post-Mauryan era in ancient India. The Udayagiri temples represent, state Francis Ching and other scholars, the "earliest intact Hindu architecture" and display the "essential attributes of a Hindu temple ...
Jennifer Love Hewitt is relishing a recent milestone.. On Nov. 21, the 9-1-1 actress, 45, and her husband, actor Brian Hallisay, celebrated 11 years of marriage. "That's like 190 years in ...
An example of a monitor roof. These roofs may extend the length of the building. Monitor on the Whitehouse-Crawford Planing Mill in Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.. A monitor in architecture is a raised structure running along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.
Week 9 has come and gone. Time to set our sights for Week 10. Matt Harmon and Sal Vetri are back for another 'Data Dump Wednesday' by sharing 10 data points you need to know for Week 10 to ...