Architecture and Design Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
37 statements marked Debated.
Adaptive Reuse, Formulated Year1980
Adaptive Reuse, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1980
1980 is the earliest dated use of the exact phrase adaptive reuse this source lists, a Journal of Interior Design and Research case study; the underlying practice of giving old buildings new uses is far older and undated in this source.
Source Wikipedia
Adsit Log Cabin, Completed Year1778
Adsit Log Cabin, Buildings and Structures
Standing
Concerns Completed Year
Currently States 1778
Traditional date of construction by Samuel Adsit; the town historian's own records suggest the cabin was actually built soon after 1790, per Wikipedia.
Source Adsit Log Cabin (Wikipedia)
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Completed Year1033
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Buildings and Structures
Standing
Concerns Completed Year
Currently States 1033
Earlier phases were built under the Umayyads (early 8th century) and rebuilt after earthquakes in 746 and 1033; the source dates the current structure's outline to the Fatimid rebuild under al-Zahir following the 1033 earthquake, with no single exact completion year given.
Source Wikipedia: Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ancient Chinese Architecture, Period Start Year500
Ancient Chinese Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period Start Year
Currently States 500
Marks the earliest surviving physical evidence of the timber-frame, bracket-set tradition this entity describes, seen in cave-temple construction of the 5th and 6th centuries AD. The wider building tradition traces further back through earlier dynasties in the BC era, which is not forced into this integer column, matching this entity's own period-end-year StatusNote convention.
Source Wikipedia
Apollodorus of Damascus, NationalityBorn in Damascus, Roman Syria
Apollodorus of Damascus, Architects and Designers
Standing
Concerns Nationality
Currently States Born in Damascus, Roman Syria
Ancient and modern sources differ on his ethnicity: he has been described as Syrian, Arab, Nabataean Arab, or a Hellenized provincial. Birth in Damascus, in Roman Syria, is the one point of agreement.
Source Wikipedia
Biophilic Design, Formulated Year1984
Biophilic Design, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1984
1984 dates Edward O. Wilson's book Biophilia and its biophilia hypothesis, the conceptual foundation later applied to architecture by Stephen Kellert and others; the source does not give a separate year for the term biophilic design itself.
Source Wikipedia
Brutalism, Period End Year1980
Brutalism, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1980
Sources give a range rather than a single year: popularity declined through the late 1970s, with the movement generally considered over by the early 1980s.
Source Wikipedia
Classical Greek Architecture, Period End Year100
Classical Greek Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 100
Century-level approximation only, no exact year is given: sources place the close of the Greek temple-building tradition around the 1st century AD, as it folds into Roman practice. The tradition's own beginning falls in the BC era and is carried in the entity's prose description rather than forced into a start-year column.
Source Wikipedia
Daylighting, Formulated Year1929
Daylighting, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1929
1929 dates Le Corbusier's often-quoted statement, cited in this source, calling architecture's history a struggle for light; the practice of admitting daylight into buildings is far older, and this source gives no earlier year for daylighting named as a distinct design concept.
Source Wikipedia
Florence Court, Completed Year1764
Florence Court, Buildings and Structures
Standing
Concerns Completed Year
Currently States 1764
Building history is conjectural: the central block's construction is proffered at dates between 1730 and 1764, and has been attributed, without certainty, to the architect Richard Cassels; the architects of the current house are formally unknown.
Source Florence Court (Wikipedia)
Golden Temple, Completed Year1830
Golden Temple, Buildings and Structures
Standing
Concerns Completed Year
Currently States 1830
Construction spanned centuries: the sarovar pool was completed in 1577, Guru Arjan installed the Adi Granth in 1604, and the sanctum was rebuilt in marble and copper in 1809 before being overlaid with gold leaf in 1830, the event that gave the temple its current name and appearance; no single completion year is uncontested.
Source Wikipedia: Golden Temple
Gothic Architecture, Period End Year1500
Gothic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1500
The Renaissance supplanted Gothic in Italy by the mid fifteenth century, while Gothic forms continued in England and Belgium into the sixteenth century and later; 1500 is an approximate midpoint, not a single agreed end date.
Source Wikipedia
Gothic Revival, Period End Year1890
Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1890
No sharp end: influence had already peaked by the 1870s and the style fell out of fashion gradually across the 1880s and into the early 1890s.
Source Wikipedia
Hotel Negresco, Completed Year1912
Hotel Negresco, Buildings and Structures
Standing
Concerns Completed Year
Currently States 1912
The article text says the hotel opened in 1912 while its infobox lists 1913; the existing description uses 1913.
Source Hotel Negresco, Wikipedia
Islamic Architecture, Period Start Year610
Islamic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period Start Year
Currently States 610
Century-level approximation only, no exact year is given: the source places the start in early 7th-century Arabia with the formation of Islam under Muhammad's leadership. No period-end-year is written since the tradition continues to the present day per the same source.
Source Wikipedia
Modernist Architecture, Period End Year1980
Modernist Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1980
The replacement by postmodern architecture as the leading style for institutional and corporate buildings was gradual rather than a single sharp date; modernist design continued in narrower forms afterward.
Source Wikipedia
Modular Coordination, Formulated Year1984
Modular Coordination, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1984
1984 marks the international codification of modular coordination as ISO 2848; national modular-coordination standards and building practice existed earlier in several countries, so this date is the international standards codification, not when the underlying design idea first appeared.
Source Wikipedia
Net Zero Energy Building, Formulated Year2006
Net Zero Energy Building, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 2006
2006 dates the National Renewable Energy Laboratory paper by Torcellini et al that formalized the zero-energy-building definitions this source's own Definitions section still uses; individual demonstration buildings predate this term-defining year.
Source Wikipedia
New Urbanism, Formulated Year1993
New Urbanism, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1993
1993 is the year of the Congress for the New Urbanism's first general meeting; the source does not state a separate founding date for the movement itself.
Source Wikipedia
Open Plan, Formulated Year1950
Open Plan, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1950
This source narrows the German Quickborner team's office landscape concept, the specific innovation that broke walls out of the office plan, only to the 1950s, not a single year; 1950 anchors the stated decade rather than a claimed precise date. The domestic open plan under Frank Lloyd Wright is older still and also carries no single year in this source.
Source Wikipedia