Word: architecturale
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Scully most effectively deploys his eloquence when he discusses single buildings and architectural ensembles. He illustrates the way in which the first-hand experience of a building, as he claims in the preface, is the only way to "see things as they are." In his description of the crossing of...
Like Scully's book, this volume probes a vision of architectural and landscape design as an integral part of the humanities, and is preoccupied with the "reading" and interpretation of successive constructions of Paradise.
This parallels the developments in English landscape gardening in the 18th century, in which an ideal natural setting was created (including architectural fragments such as ersatz Greek temples and Gothic churches); this setting bears little resemblance to nature itself. The garden is, in fact, an environment just as artificial as...
All along, U.S. Attorney Donaldson, a white Republican, vehemently dismissed the charge of bias. Says he: "We're colorblind, and we simply follow the evidence where it leads." Last fall that evidence led to Atlanta architect Tarlee Brown, a former business partner of Arrington's, who pleaded guilty to charges...
"Pei hasn't tried to make himself a celebrity like other architects," said Michael Baenen, a member of a local architectural firm. "His personal explanations make it much more special."