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Architecture and Design Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of architecture, from ancient monuments to the living Pritzker laureates. Search any building and follow its threads through the style, the architect and the elements that shaped it.
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Open any entry and follow it outward through everything it touches: the architects, the styles, the elements and the buildings it rests on. See what cites it in return.
Set two or more buildings, styles or architects side by side and see where their sources, their claims and their influences actually overlap.
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Emperor Napoleon III appointed Georges-Eugene Haussmann as Prefect of the Seine in 1853 to carry out a sweeping renovation of Paris that continued unt
A trade union, called a labor union in American English and often simply a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improv
Flint is a hard, fine-grained form of quartz that occurs as nodules within chalk and limestone deposits, and its use as a building material, called fl
The Plantagenet style, also called Angevine Gothic, is an architectural style of western France dating mainly to the second half of the twelfth centur
The Jacob Kamm House, also called the Jacob Kamm Mansion, is a French Second Empire style mansion in Portland, Oregon, built in 1871. It was moved fro
Danish architect, 1918 to 2008, winner of the 1957 competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell vaults he resolved as segments of a single sphe
A sun-dried brick made from a mixture of earth, water and often straw or another binding fiber, one of the oldest and most widespread building materia
The world federation of national architectural organizations, founded at Lausanne in 1948 and headquartered in Paris, which represents the profession
A gap nobody has closed yet, rotated daily.
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