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National Parks - Native American (G-N) Links to US National Parks that commemorate Native American heritage, from your About.com Guide
American Roadside Architecture of the 20th Century Take a virtual tour along America's roads and highways: Here are photos and discussions of America's billboards, neon signs, diners, shopping plazas, and other offbeat buildings from the mid-twentieth century. Discover
Celebrating Santa Fe Design I've just returned from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where architects and designers are gearing up for three important events celebrating the design arts of the American Southwest. Combining Native American traditions with the eclectic ideas of many settle
Shaping Seattle Architecture - Product Summary version 3.0, from your About.com Guide
Architecture and Social Studies Use this directory to find ideas and general resources for combining social studies, geography and history lessons with discussion of architecture and building design. Teaching aids for all ages.
Preserving native traditions: the National Museum of the American Indian gives Native peoples, scholars permission to claim their voices, share their stories
There's a monumental new presence rising above the elm trees on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.,--and it's not like anything else you'll see there....(Continue Reading) Alluring Albuquerque: in the shadow of phenomenal growth, New Mexico's largest city remembers its Native American and Spanish colonial roots - City Of
WHETHER YOU' RE ARRIVING BY AIR AT THE city's stylish and efficient Sunport or via Interstates 40 or 25, which intersect as one of the nation's busiest ......(Continue Reading)A HISTORY OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: Buildings in their Cultural and Technological Context. - Review - book review
By Mark Gelernter. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1999. [pounds]50 This richly illustrated and broad survey including discussions of native, ......(Continue Reading)Go native: embrace nature—and help save the planet—by switching to indigenous plants
WHEN SANDRA HOLLAND turned 62, she started to garden with gusto. She dug out a quarter-acre s worth of weeds and exotic plants and created a meadow of wild grasses, all of which grow indigenously w...(Continue Reading)The borderless Baroque: a traveling exhibition examines the scope and sensibility of what its curators call "post-Latin American" art - Import/Export
The austerity esthetic of post-Sept. 11 art (which wanes with each passing day) was preceded by one of the most elaborate, over-the-top trends in recent ......(Continue Reading)
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