Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Architecture (3)
- Contemporary architecture (2)
- Close range (1)
- Connaught (1)
- Denari (1)
-
- Ecclesiastical (1)
- Geomatics (1)
- Geometry (1)
- Gottfried Feder (1)
- History of architecture (1)
- Ireland (1)
- Ishikawa Hideaki (1)
- Japanese urban planning (1)
- Machi (1)
- Medieval (1)
- Nishiyama Uzo (1)
- Ormond (1)
- Photogrammetry (1)
- Proportion (1)
- Synagogue; Judaism; Architecture; Italy; Piedmont; Jews; Jewish; Art; (1)
- Vidler (1)
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Graduate Sessions 7: Anthony Vidler, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Lauren M. Baez
Graduate Sessions 7: Anthony Vidler, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Lauren M. Baez
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
Anthony Vidler is Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. His books include Histories of the Immediate Present, The Architectural Uncanny, Warped Space, and The Writing of the Walls.
Graduate Sessions 8: Neil Denari, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Melissa Griffin
Graduate Sessions 8: Neil Denari, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Melissa Griffin
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
Neil Denari is the founder and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc. He was the director of SCI-Arc from 1997 to 2001 and is currently a professor in the Architecture and Urban Design Department at UCLA. His lecture at Syracuse Architecture, entitled "The New Intimacy," is one of over two hundred he has given at institutions throughout France, Japan, and the United States.
Metrology And Proportion In The Ecclesiastical Architecture Of Medieval Ireland, Avril Behan, Rachel Moss
Metrology And Proportion In The Ecclesiastical Architecture Of Medieval Ireland, Avril Behan, Rachel Moss
Conference Papers
The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which detailed empirical analysis of the metrology and proportional systems used in the design of Irish ecclesiastical architecture can be analysed to provide historical information not otherwise available. Focussing on a relatively limited sample of window tracery designs as a case study, it will first set out to establish what, if any, systems were in use, and then what light these might shed on the background, training and work practices of the masons, and, by association, the patrons responsible for employing them.
Machi: Neighborhood And Small Town—The Foundation For Urban Transformation In Japan, Carola Hein
Machi: Neighborhood And Small Town—The Foundation For Urban Transformation In Japan, Carola Hein
Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship
The term machi, signifying both neighborhood and small town, is a key element for understanding Japanese urban form and city planning. After tracing the origins of the term, this article explores the historic and contemporary significance of the concept and its particular spatial and socioeconomic forms. The article then argues that the concept of machi influenced the ways in which Japanese planners picked up foreign concepts through the nineteenth and particularly the twentieth century, absorbing some ideas and rejecting others. Building on their perception of the city as composed of urban units that allowed for planning in patchwork patterns, leading …
The Synagogues Of Piedmont, Samuel D. Gruber
The Synagogues Of Piedmont, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
History and architecture of the synagogues of Piedmont, Italy.