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This report explains Core Architects Incorporated's 1994 origins as a simple three-way partnership by architects tired of working in others' organizations. The paper describes its simple beginnings, solid business policies, tremendous growth with retained policies and principles that happen to have brought success, a client list that extends across to Dubai, company versatility in projects, environmentally sound design and construction and a uniqueness.

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"Toronto's Core Architects Incorporated is the kind of successful architecture firm that was practically unheard of in the Greater Toronto Area, a decade ago. The paper explains that it is a firm made of serious and experienced architects determined to practice on their own terms, no longer content to serve as..."

Tags:core architects, toronto, company profile

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This paper compares and contrasts the ideas of the 1950s of three separate architects by looking at their different views of modernism. The architects are Robert Venturi, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas. Modernist, Post-Modernist, and Pre-Modernist concepts are examined, and the works and ideas of the architects are described in depth.

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"In the 1950's many architects were struggling for expression of Modern Architecture. Robert Venturi, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas are three architects who each had different views in regards to Modern Architecture. Robert Venturi had a post-modern approach and believed in complexity and contradiction to create a new architecture. Peter Eisenman had a modern approach and used axonometric drawings and models to better represent architecture. Rem Koolhaas had a modern, pre-modern, and post-modern approach and looked at the problem of large. These three architects expressed their relationship to Modern Architecture differently."

Tags:architect, architecture, axonometric, building, drawings, eisenman, history, important, influential, koolhaas, men, models, modern, peter, rem, robert, structure, venturi

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The author of the paper states that the work of an architect is influenced by many factors. The writer says that architects must consider the historical period in which they live when designing a building and then decide whether to adhere to modern architectural principles or those from the past. He then goes on to examine the work of three historically notable architects, Schinkel, Pugin and Jefferson, and attempts to show whether their work reflects this idea.

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"In many instances, architects have their own ideas related to designing a building or structure, yet at the same time, they must consider their own personal viewpoints on history as it relates to style and architectural genres. As Joseph Rykwert points out, whether hundreds of years ago or in our modern age, architects ''are heavily influenced by architectural notions from long ago which helps them to visualize what the past was like and then contemplate the present and the future'' in relation to how a building or other structure will be seen by those today and those in the distant future. 2 In addition, architects almost always strive to reflect their own nationalism when it comes to designing a building or other structure, such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Taj Mahal at Agra in India or the great Houses of Parliament in London, England."

Tags:architecture, classical, roman, greek, gothic, middle, ages

Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of four periods of architecture and four architects whose designs represented key styles that arose in Los Angeles during the 20th century: Irving Gill (mission revival); Frank Lloyd Wright (early modernism); Richard Neutra (international style modernism); and Frank Gehry (post-modernism). The paper includes an appendix with a work from each architect.

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"During the twentieth century, a number of different architecture styles and architects left their imprint on the greater Los Angeles area. While a good part of this development was regional in nature with respect to architectural style and design, the whole range of modern architecture and its development are also represented via architects like Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and Frank Gehry. Gill's mission revival style of architecture, Wright's early modernism, Neutra's modernism and Gehry's post-modernism are all reflected in..."

Tags:Hollyhock House, Chiat/Day Building, Akai House, structure, art, art deco, nature, landscapes, residences, commercial buildings

Abstract
This paper briefly reviews the life and times of Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector. The paper describes her significant life achievements, the sexism she faced and the reason why society must remain vigilant against such attitudes today. Additionally, the paper contains thirteen sources, mostly internet-based, providing important information on this woman.

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"The matter of female architects in Ohio is an interesting one because, historically, women in Ohio - as elsewhere in America - faced great difficulty. Ms. Hayden - she later married James Rector and assumed the nomenclature Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector - was also an outspoken suffragist ("Women in Ohio History - Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector" 2005, paragraph 12). Fortunately, her papers can still be accessed in various University collections throughout America ("Guide to the Manuscript Collections - Hayden, Florence Kenyon" 2005, paragraph 36). Ms. Hayden's work did not begin and end with her design of the elegant Oxley Hall Women's Residence at the University of Ohio. She also designed the home of Ohio millionaire Ellis O. Jones ("Old Towne East - An Historic Neighborhood" 2005, paragraph 1)."

Tags:architects, women, hayden

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This paper explains that the development of a postmodern architectural style can best be understood as a reaction to the modernist perception of art and architecture. The paper explains that, in the postmodern view, ornament is not seen as being extraneous and superfluous, but rather as a valid and important extension and addition to the meaning and the context of the architectural work. The postmodern style reintroduced the value of ornamentation as part of the eclectic and 'open ended' nature of postmodern and post-structural thinking. The paper describes this ornamentation in the work of Hans Hollein, Michael Graves and Robert Venturi. Several colored pictures are included with the paper.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Post Modernism
Ornament
Ornaments Role in Postmodern Architecture
Example of the Work of Robert Venturi
Example of the Work of Michael Graves
Example of the work of Hans Hollein
Conclusion

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"Graves achieved international recognition for his design for a Portland Public Services Building in 1980. Another building that bears his unique postmodern stamp is Humana Corporate Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky (1982). He is also well known for his creative extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1985-87). Among his many other works is the Dolphin and Swan Hotels at Disney World in Orlando. These works also make extensive use of decoration and ornamentation."

Tags:imagination eclectic, guild house, humana tower, jewelry stores

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"The U.S. Mythologizing of the Architect and the Canadian Response" is a three page paper that talks about The United States and Canada having different outlooks of architecture and the Architect in the 1800's, both in the way architects were thought and trained and the nationalist sentiment of each respective country.

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The U.S. Mythologizing of the Architect and the Canadian Response The United States and Canada had far different outlooks of architecture and the Architect in the 1800's, both in the way architects were thought and trained and the nationalist sentiment of each respective country. While Canada sought to preserve a nationalism tinged with English theory, Americans forged forward with new designs that were adapted and molded by Canadian interpretation. This made architectural history and consciousness favor American designs and designers because of their innovations, however one must understand the fact that the Canadian tradition of architecture errs on the side of a standardized conception of what architecture is, and

Tags:architecture, canada, america

Abstract
"The U.S. Mythologizing of the Architect and the Canadian Response" is a three page paper that talks about The United States and Canada having different outlooks of architecture and the Architect in the 1800's, both in the way architects were thought and trained and the nationalist sentiment of each respective country.

From the Paper
The U.S. Mythologizing of the Architect and the Canadian Response The United States and Canada had far different outlooks of architecture and the Architect in the 1800's, both in the way architects were thought and trained and the nationalist sentiment of each respective country. While Canada sought to preserve a nationalism tinged with English theory, Americans forged forward with new designs that were adapted and molded by Canadian interpretation. This made architectural history and consciousness favor American designs and designers because of their innovations, however one must understand the fact that the Canadian tradition of architecture errs on the side of a standardized conception of what architecture is, and

Tags:architecture, canada, america

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This paper reviews the process of university-based preparation/licensing in Canada and the continuing education offerings of professional associations. The paper discusses how professional architects need a sense of themselves as continually evolving professionals who seek new knowledge of different kinds, and are aware of past architects having gained from several kinds of education/experience.

Tags:architect cda, professional devt, reg/philosophy

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This paper explains the Michael Graves' drawings and buildings are notable for their manipulation of archetypal form into highly abstract, figurative compositions. The paper then points out that Graves gave up the neutral glass curtain wall of late modernism and instead uses a colorful cloak of cladding by which he reintroduces the hierarchical composition of classical buildings more characteristic of postmodernism. The paper also reports that Michael Grave's Public Service Building in Portland, Oregon has at least four distinct historical styles embedded in its design: egyptian, italian, art deco and modern.

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"Levin agrees as well that postmodernism has derived from the ability of artists to produce works in a mass quantity, so to speak, because of new processes and products involving mass production: "By the time men were traveling to the moon, art was being assembled in factories from blueprints." While the postmodernist may see the modernist era as more scientifically oriented, it is clear that postmodernism is also influenced by scientific developments and possibilities. Levin says that modernism was highly optimistic, while postmodernism is more cynical."

Tags:archetypal, cubist, color, nostalgia, cost