Sentences with phrase «architectural history as»

Knotty pine walls and burnt orange leather sofas provide the bar area with a living room feel, while glass block windows are used throughout as a nod to the Fulton Market's architectural history as a former meat distributor.

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Besides, there are far to many crosses in history such as paintings, architectural works etc to prove legitimacy in these militant atheist claims.

Saturday, November 26 at 2 p.m. — Join William B. Rhoads as he shares his latest book, Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide, featuring 325 sites throughout all Ulster County townships and including 340 illustrations.

Chernihiv's architectural monuments chronicle two most flourishing periods in the city's history - those of Kievan Rus» (11th and 12th centuries) and of A guide to river cruises in Russia on the Volga, Dnieper, Don and Neva, including information on key stops such as Moscow and St Petersburg, tour operator

Plainspoken and witty, it qualifies as social history, film theory, personal reverie, architectural history and criticism, a bittersweet meditation on automotive transport, a critical history of mass transit in southern California, a wisecracking compilation of local folklore, «a city symphony in reverse,» and a song of nostalgia for lost neighborhoods such as Bunker Hill and unchronicled lifestyles such as those of locals who walk or take buses.

The design builds on the site's history as a farm, with an informal typology to deliver a series of distinct yet coherent architectural components echoing the school's agricultural past.

Mike Taylor tells the story / 1898 Daimler: A True Horseless Carriage — David Burgess-Wise recounts the history of one of the very earliest Coventry Daimlers and describes its recent meticulous restoration by Fairbourne Carriages / The Architectural Heritage of the Motor Car — Ahead of the publication of Carscapes, John Minnis highlights some motoring - related buildings recently listed / Colin Chapman's Goggomobil — Edited for publication by Sandy Skinner, this is Robin Read's full account of the birth of what is known as the Chapman Strut

Not least of which include the mighty Maya and Aztec history, resulting in the incredible architectural sites of Chichen Itza, an enormous Mayan Pyramid and even the capital, Mexico City, once known as Tenochtitlan, which served as the centre of the Aztec empire.

Regensburg, Germany, is a fascinating medieval city that history buffs will love with its 1,300 listed buildings of «historical interest» and architectural wonders, such as the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) and Porta Pretoria, gates to an ancient Roman fort built in 179 AD.

As the only museum - related research facility in the world dedicated to the study of American Modernism (late nineteenth century — present), it sponsors research in the fields of art history, architectural history and design, literature, music and photography.

As we took the servants staircase to the attic, the guide explained about the history and unique architectural features of the Casa Milà, also called La Pedrera (the stone quarry).

The rich history of different nations gave life to a fascinating place such as Curacao, the largest island in the Netherlands Antilles designated as an UNESCO World Heritage, for its idyllic beaches, underwater gardens of coral reefs, and an intriguing mix of cultural and architectural heritage.

Known as the city of a hundred spires, Prague is the perfect destination for those looking to travel to a European city rich with history and architectural wonders.

From painted monasteries, to palaces, churches architectural town centres as well as covering the history.

Los Angeles has a rich, diverse history of architectural works, having been known throughout professional architectural circles as a testbed for architecture.

The former - Soviet city was once used as a trading center for the region's oil and combines its architectural and cultural history with a growing wine industry, arts, and club scene.

CODE: 5184990002 Archaeological Cusco (04 Days / 03 Nights) from USD $ 270 This is one of the favorite cultural programs which allows you to penetrate the Incan World, discovering its emblematic monuments, like Machu Picchu, Saqsaywaman, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, the city of Cusco, as well as the handicraft of the picturesque village of Pisaq, which generate a mixture of history, art and admiration for the architectural wonders built by the Incas, combining them with the monumental witnesses of the Colonial and Republican time periods, wh

As a historic preservation project, a nomination to the National and State Historic Registers is underway, ensuring that 41 Cross Street will maintain the architectural integrity of its 150 + year history.

Afterwards, as the guide leads through a morning tour of the temple and explains its strategic architectural planning, one will also get a sense of its mystical history - a perfect introduction to the wonder of Machu Picchu.

Throughout its thousand - year history, Hanoi still preserves many ancient architectural works as well as countless fascinating sites and attractions.

The encounter between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies as «a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural space.»

The soft power of architectural propaganda is a powerful tool of ideological enterprise, and here Novoa provokes an understanding of society's trajectory as a metaphor of history repeating itself.

Present Perfect evolves around a central architectural moment in Tokyo's urban history materialised as metabolist architecture.

She has used wallpaper as a medium throughout her career to intervene and comment on architectural histories.

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

Hjort Guttu also writes analytical as well as poetical texts, and several of her projects discuss art and architectural history.

Educated in architecture at the University of Bath, with an MSc in architectural history from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Ms. Galilee began her career as an editor at Icon magazine, and was a contributing editor to Domus magazine from 2010 to 2013.

These seemingly mobile metal and textile structures comment directly on the architectural history of Tramway as they are designed specifically to fit within the tram tracks that still remain in the floor.

Reinterpreting Malevič, Tatlin, El Lisitzky and other key exponents of these movements allowed Pardi to take the still vital elements of these artistic directions and become one of the most active and qualified representatives of the history of contemporary painting and sculpture.This extensive retrospective illustrates the development of Pardi's explorations at every phase, from the first depictions of architectural interiors and exteriors of the 1960s, such as the Environments and Hanging Gardens, to subsequent works from the 1970s, which he named Architectures.The series Diagonals are from the early 1980s and consist of straight lines whose tight rhythm oscillates between black and white to a search for new montages and movements.

In the Observer, Rowan Moore reviews Shahed Saleem's book The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History, describing it as «measured and informative».

Playful and engaged with the world and its technologies as it is, it also has a formal exactitude that deploys abstraction's constructivist history as much as the potential of architectural intervention.

Her early paintings and sculptures reassemble disparate architectural elements from history as well as animal and body parts to construct unified compositions.

Typical, recent examples of his artworks thoughtfully list medium and / or displayed interior contents, as if listed by border security agents: «custom made perspex 1U format box, server PSU & switch, server case fans, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence, by Daniel Crevier (book), PDLC switchable privacy film, cables, generic unpainted architectural 1:100 scale model figures, dust, sebum [an oily secretion of the sebaceous glands], digital timers, travel power adapter...»

Mona Marzouk's interest in architectural histories is visible in many of her works — in painting, sculpture as well as site - specific murals and paintings.

Including sound, sculptural and text - based works that have existed as early prototypes or sketches but never produced on the architectural scale for which they were initially intended, Gillick's choreography of spaces, objects and ideas poetically addresses themes of time, as history and duration, and the visual and spatial codes of the social.

The photographer keeps an Instagram account dedicated the the intricate beauty of centuries - old mosques in Iran (as ancient as 900 years old), making for an architectural history lesson of sorts.

For her recent exhibition entitled This Building for Hope, which took place at Morecambe's seafront Midland Hotel, Steele undertook a research visit to Miami South Beach, as well as researching into The Midland's architectural history at the RIBA and V&A archives in order to produce creative interpretations of her findings.

Their instructional scores and poetic manifestos, architectural notes and archival material inspire feelings of rootedness, hope or loss with view to form as well as preserve identity, culture and history.

The Great West Door of the magnificent Westminster Abbey faces up Victoria Street, and is testament to British architectural genius, with additions such as the towers by Nicholas Hawkesmoor and work by George Gilbert Scott complementing the achievements of the stonemasons whose names have been lost to history.

Building as Object Tour 1:30 pm, Lobby Join us for an in - depth look at the Museum's architectural history and some of our permanent installations.

Glaser's graphic and architectural commissions include the logo (which has been described as «the most frequently imitated logo design in human history»), commissioned by the state of New York in 1976; the design of a 600 - foot mural for the New Federal Office Building in Indianapolis in 1974; the complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center, New York, as well as the design of the Observation Deck and Permanent Exhibition for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1975.

Shedding light on persuasive, performative and often duplicitous identities, as well as on architectural objects and history, the work explores the relationship between man and monument as they coexist in the landscape as representations of one another.

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Drawing on my own practice as an artist, I was especially excited to delve into the archives of Whiteleys's history, where I discovered old architectural plans that revealed William Whiteley's unrealised dream of building a botanical garden on top of the shopping centre.

That moment in history was perhaps not quite right for a golf club, but in 2013 the architectural firm Robbrecht & Daem took Mies» designs, and as if they were a musical score, «played» them again.

With a previous Ph.D. in Architectural Theory, History and Criticism from Princeton University, Abrams had worked for more than 20 years as an architecture and design critic and editor, organizing numerous conferences and salons, and writing for publications including frieze, I.D. Magazine, Blueprint, and The New York Times.

Educated in architecture at the University of Bath, with an MSc in architectural history from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Ms. Galilee began her career as an editor at Iconmagazine, and was a contributing editor to Domus magazine from 2010 to 2013.

This exhibition will bring to life the multifaceted layers of Syria's architectural and cultural history going as far back as the country's early pre-Islamic past and will explore its many contributions to world history.

Prior to this, Dr. Trkulja held academic positions in the United States and Europe, teaching and conducting research in art and architectural history at Princeton and Tulane universities, as well as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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