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Genuinely unresolved points this atlas records rather than silently guesses at: a contested attribution such as the golden ratio's presence in an ancient building, a disputed claim to a first, or any other fact where the scholarly record itself disagrees. This atlas's own voice convention carries a contested attribution as Status debated with the dispute named in the StatusNote, never smoothed into settled fact; an open question is attached to the entity it concerns and stays visible on that entity's own page, so a reader sees the atlas's own honesty about what architectural history has not settled.

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Did Adolf Loos's own richly finished interiors, in travertine, cipollino marble and mahogany, contradict the argument against ornament that Ornament and Crime makes, or is decoration in expensive natural material a different thing from applied ornament in his own terms?

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In what year was the Deutsches Architekturmuseum founded as an institution, distinct from the 1979 to 1984 renovation and 1984 public opening of its building?

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In what year was the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture established as its own school within The Cooper Union, distinct from Cooper Union's 1859 founding and the 1981 renaming for Irwin S. Chanin?

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Why has Roman concrete endured two thousand years, in surf and weather, while modern concrete structures decay within decades?

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Did Adolf Loos's own richly finished interiors, in travertine, cipollino marble and mahogany, contradict the argument against ornament that Ornament and Crime makes, or is decoration in expensive natural material a different thing from applied ornament in his own terms?

How exactly did Brunelleschi build the dome of Florence Cathedral without conventional centering?

In what year did Ronald Mace coin the term universal design?

In what year did Vitruvius formulate the firmitas, utilitas, venustas triad recorded in De architectura?

In what year was the Deutsches Architekturmuseum founded as an institution, distinct from the 1979 to 1984 renovation and 1984 public opening of its building?

In what year was the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture established as its own school within The Cooper Union, distinct from Cooper Union's 1859 founding and the 1981 renaming for Irwin S. Chanin?

In what year was the parti, as an architectural design concept, first formulated or named?

Was cross-laminated timber first patented in the 1920s in Tacoma, Washington, or in 1985 in France?

Where does a dome end and a cupola begin?

Where is Imhotep's tomb?

Which building was truly the first skyscraper: the Home Insurance Building, or an earlier iron framed structure?

Why has Roman concrete endured two thousand years, in surf and weather, while modern concrete structures decay within decades?