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  • The Minister also said that following recommendations made by the National Monu - ments Council, he expected legislation to be promulgated for the protection, maintenance and enhancement of the cultural, architec - tural, aesthetic and historical significance of the Island.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Most of the buildings on Cypress sported facades of English Tudor half-timber-ing, which made Pine Cove an anomaly among the coastal communit-ies of California with their predominantly Spanish-Moorish architec-ture.

    Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992

  • The network architec - ture consists of a T1 backbone connecting hubs in Pitts - burgh, Philadelphia, and Allentown/Bethlehem, and a 56-Kbps connection to a hub in Scranton.

    What We Didn't Know About Slavery Rose, Willie Lee 1974

  • “Modulor” (his own invention of a scale of architec - tural proportions related to the proportions of the human body), in the designing of the city as a whole by assuming an hour of walking as the basic unit of town planning.

    THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

  • The city, both as a social reality and as an architec - tural environment, played an important part in

    THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

  • Gothic architecture with the older idea that architec - ture was the direct outgrowth of a society; in the effort to return to Gothic standards no mere mechanical copying of Gothic forms could suffice, for what was needed was to recapture the spirit of medieval civili - zation in its entirety.

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

  • Thus the Gothic cannot be defended as a universally valid period concept even in architec - ture, but is only applicable to ecclesiastical buildings, their decoration, and sphere of influence.

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

  • Empire and in Italy where baroque art and architec - ture are much in evidence.

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • In conceptions of social reform generally, whether in the shape of wholesale creation of utopias, or specific workaday policies concerning poverty and welfare, or justifications in city planning and architec - tural mainlines, concepts of happiness often have an immediate place.

    HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

  • The Italian cities tended to excel in the mechanical arts, architec - ture, and civil engineering; the German cities in the metallurgical and chemical arts (Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press was, significantly, a goldsmith by trade).

    TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968

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