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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
Trubeck and Wislocki Houses - Robert Venturi Built as vacation cottages for related families, the Trubek and Wislocki houses share a moor overlooking the sea. The two weathered-gray, neo-vernacular houses are definitely a pair.
Shaping Seattle Architecture - Product Summary version 3.0, from your About.com Guide
About Chinese Architecture Resources about traditional Chinese architecture, Beijing's hutongs, temples, palaces and quadrangle courtyard.
University of Waterloo - Archaeology Graduate Schools Guide to archaeology departments, from your About.com Guide
New Vernacular Architecture. . - Modern Vernacular Possible? - book review
By Vicky Richardson. London: Laurence King. 2001, [pounds sterling]39.99 New Vernacular Architecture assumes its place among a growing library of books exploring the production and future of arch...(Continue Reading) "Bringing perfection in these different places": Father Divine's vernacular architecture of intention
Abstract The Peace Mission Movement, an American intentional religious community founded by the Revd M. J. Divine, also known as "Father Divine," ......(Continue Reading)Landscape, the fabric of architecture: moving between the monumental and the vernacular, FJMT's new complex for Edith Cowan University's Joondalup campus
"He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death)....(Continue Reading)Landscape, the fabric of architecture: moving between the monumental and the vernacular, FJMT's new complex for Edith Cowan University's Joondalup campus
To round off this issue's survey of The Architectural Review's last quarter-century, I asked some of the architects and critics who have often appeared ......(Continue Reading)Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master
By Paul Oliver. London: Phaidon. 2003. [pounds sterling]35 This is an up to date and fully revised version of Oliver's previous Dwellings: the house ......(Continue Reading)
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