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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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The proportion of roughly 1 to 1.618, in which the whole relates to its larger part as the larger part does to the smaller, long claimed as a secret o
Extruded polystyrene, commonly abbreviated XPS, is a rigid closed-cell foam insulation board manufactured by extruding molten polystyrene through a di
Painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses, chiefly in the United States, that have been repainted in three or more colors chosen to accentuate
Marina City is a mixed use residential and commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-buildi
An architect active in Athens in the mid fifth century BC, named by ancient sources as co-architect of the Parthenon with Callicrates. Very little is
A vault in which diagonal arched ribs carry the structural load and support a thinner infill web between them, concentrating weight at discrete points
Europa Nostra is a pan-European federation for cultural heritage, formed in 1963 and headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, with a further office in
The founding in London in 1834 of the Institute of British Architects, which received royal patronage from Queen Victoria in 1837 to become the Royal
A gap nobody has closed yet, rotated daily.
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