The Mallows‚ also known as Alida Chanler Emmet and Christopher Temple Emmet Estate‚ is a historic home located at Head of the Harbor in Suffolk County‚ New York. It is a Colonial Revival estate home designed in 1906 by noted architect Charles A. Platt (1861–1933). It is an imposing structure‚ finished in stucco with powerful wooden detailing at the principal doorways‚ roof cornice and porch. It is a large rectangular mass‚ two full stories in height‚ seven bays long‚ with projecting wings. It features
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We cooperated with an architect‚ a family friend‚ to completely reconstruct our house‚ making many additions. I personally witnessed countless times my parents sitting at the dining table with our architect discussing details‚ reasoning‚ and logic behind various designs. I remember hearing discussions regarding details as miniscule as the ridgeline of the roof and
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experienced a renaissance in architecture and the arts. The buildings of this era have come to be known as “The New Khmer Architecture”. The foremost architect of the time‚ and author of some of its finest work‚ was Vann Molyvann. I. Background of Vann Molyvann Vann Molyvann (born November 23‚ 1926) is Cambodia ’s most remarkable modern architect. During the Sangkum Reastr Niyum regime (1955–1970) Prince Norodom Sihanouk gave the impulse to an enlightened development policy encompassing the whole
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Walter Gropius was one of the most important architects and educators of the 20th century. The son of a successful architect‚ Gropius received his professional training in Munich. After a year of travel through Spain and Italy‚ he joined the office of Peter Behrens‚ the most important European architect of the day‚ in Berlin. In 1910‚ Gropius left Behrens to work in partnership with Adolf Meyer until 1924-25. This period was the most fruitful of Gropius’s long career; he designed most of his significant
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and comparison‚ Le Corbusier ’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Guggenheim Museum have many similar attributes to them. Although Le Corbusier adamantly denied Frank Lloyd Wright ’s influence on his works‚ by examining the styles of the two architects‚ one can see similarities that cannot be justified by mere coincidence. However‚ since the Guggenheim was completed in 1959‚ after Villa Savoye‚ it could be also argued that Le Corbusier was the one who influenced Wright. Both pieces of modern architecture
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“Study nature‚ love nature‚ stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” Frank Lloyd Wright was an inspiring architect who developed a distinctly style. He created new types of architecture through his creativeness. He had different styles of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest architect of all time. His influence continued and his innovative building style spread around. He created a numerous of buildings in different places and he mostly designed the interior elements. His work
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Lethaby to discuss the Maison de Verre by Pierre Chareau. The architects P. Chareau and B. Bijovet conceived the Maison de Verre between 1928 and 1931 for the Doctor Dalsace and his wife. This house is located in the quartier of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. This house is clearly a clue to a better understanding to the preface of William Richard Lethaby in his book «Architecture‚ Mysticism and Myth». The mission of an architect is to conceive an environment which answer to the happiness of man
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French Architecture France is a country rich in architecture. You can spend all your days day walking through the streets of Paris‚ or any other region‚ visiting the museums‚ and taking pictures next to one of the many impressive monuments. France has many old monuments and some of them they are in well good condition like the Maison Carrée and the Pont du Gard near Nîmes. The Carolingian dynasty of Charlemagne was a period of innovative buildings‚ using the Romanesque architecture‚ which gave
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Academic Year 2013 – 14 Name: SHREYA SETHI Date: 9 0CT 2013 Module: Research Paper 1. I want to study /investigate - Does the use of Traditional Styles in Contemporary Architecture still prevails or has modernism widely influenced contemporary architects? *NOTE:- As this is an argument concerning the whole world‚ so to narrow it down I can take a specific place like Delhi and can subdivide it into a specific part of Delhi like South Delhi which has already modernized as compared to west or
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Griffin who was the architect‚ landscape architect and designer of Canberra‚ was born on 24 November 1876 at Maywood‚ near Chicago‚ United States of America‚ and was the eldest of four children of George Walter Griffin‚ insurance agent‚ and his wife Estelle Melvina. Griffin attended high school at Oak Park‚ graduated from Nathan Ricker ’s renowned school of architecture at the University of Illinois in 1899 and was admitted as an associate of the American Institute of Architects. He first worked
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