Word: architecturee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The great expression of their relationship was Palazzo Te itself, which Giulio designed from the ground up as a pleasure pavilion for Federico. This rectangular, single-story building, with its courtyards, pools, screen colonnade and enfilade of frescoed rooms, was Giulio's masterpiece. Its architecture would inspire many future designers...
An earthquake rides on a principle of disintegration -- the disintegration not only of architecture and pavements and lives but also of the entire idea of order, of process and human control. "What can one believe quite safe," asked Seneca, "if the world itself is shaken, and its most solid parts...
A major earthquake lays waste the human sense of scale. When reporters write about earthquakes, they invariably say that cars and other large objects were "tossed around like toys." Architecture collapses upon itself. The human idea of proportion is outraged in the rifting and shearing.
The Architecture Department, the GSD's largest,has not decided in what specific area ofarchitecuture, such as legal or historical, toestablish the Kajima professorship, Price said.But the school's Committee on Appointments andPromotions hopes to recommend to McCue a candidatefor the professorship by the end of this academicyear, she said...
The GSD currently employs about 45 full-timeinstructors as well as many visiting part-timepractitioners and designers, all of whom serve inone of the school's three major departments:architecture, landscape architecture and urbanplanning and design, McCue said