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  2. Firmness, commodity, and delight - Wikipedia

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    The order of words chosen by Vitruvius, with structural integrity coming before the utility, can be explained in two ways. Either the emphasis on firmness was driven by an understanding of architecture as an "art of building", or by the fact that buildings frequently outlive their initial purpose, so "functions, customs, ... and fashions ... are only transitory" (Auguste Perret), and ...

  3. Museum architecture - Wikipedia

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    Museum architecture [1] has been of increasing importance over the centuries, especially more recently. [2] [3] [4] A challenge for museum architecture is the differing purposes of the building. [citation needed] The museum collection must be preserved, but it also needs to be made accessible to the public. Climate control may be very important ...

  4. Neo-futurism - Wikipedia

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    WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. [2] [3]Described as an avant-garde movement, [4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work ...

  5. Science museum - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia. A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.

  6. Architectural technology - Wikipedia

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    Architectural technology, or building technology, is the application of technology to the design of buildings. It is a component of architecture and building engineering and is sometimes viewed as a distinct discipline or sub-category. New materials and technologies generated new design challenges and construction methods throughout the ...

  7. Virtual museum - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford – opened 1683, online 21 August 1995. Now the History of Science Museum, it was the earliest physical museum to inaugurate a programme of virtual exhibitions with detailed collections-based content and high-resolution images of paintings, books, instruments and other artworks and artefacts.

  8. Architectural icon - Wikipedia

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    This design was not accepted, but he picked up elements for his own home in Monticello. The Crystal Palace 1851 Joseph Paxton: London, United Kingdom: Prefabricated building based on serially manufactured modular components. To showcase the construction so consciously with representative architecture was a novelty. Sagrada Família 1882 Antoni ...

  9. Architectural theory - Wikipedia

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    The designs aim to integrate architecture with nature, the relative functions of various parts of the structure, and ancient beliefs utilising geometric patterns , symmetry, and directional alignments. [3] Vastu Shastra are the textual part of Vastu Vidya - the broader knowledge about architecture and design theories from ancient India.