Sentence examples for In architecture up from inspiring English sources

He was 88. "There was really nothing like this in architecture up to that time, in the mid-'60s," said Kathryn Smith, an architectural historian and former professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, discussing Sea Ranch in an interview Tuesday.

Some of today's most creatively ambitious designs -- projects by Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Diller and Scofidio, Philippe Starck -- can be seen as late flowerings of Surrealism, a movement seldom expressed in architecture up to now.

The brittle nature of glass prevented real structural applications of glass in architecture up to the 1990s.

"We felt uneasy about putting architecture up in the trees, but it was quite liberating," says Cyrén, whose favorite feature of the Cabin is its sweeping view of the Lule River.

In 1972, the government's General Services Administration, which finances the art-in-architecture program, came up with an invitation to make a sculpture for the new Social Security Bldg. in Chicago.

Though arriving at Oxford to read English, she was quickly diverted into architecture, hearing of a new course in architecture being set up by Robert Goodden at the Ruskin School.

Taipei is working on showing visitors that what it lacks in architecture, it makes up for with relaxed and friendly people, a rich natural larder and some of the best Chinese food in the world.

The exterior relates to the interior, for example – something of a novelty in British architecture up to this point – and the rooms are classically pure: the fabulous double-height central hall is a 12m cube.

Its fruiting bodies are also very unusual in their architecture, producing up to half-a-dozen caps diminishing in size from bottom to top, all emanating from a central stem that can reach 10cm in height.

It really was one of these very rare moments when a fissure opens up in architecture, and a different way of seeing emerges.

Several are upbeat, many are critical, and across them they give a flavour of what the modern movement in architecture and planning was up to, particularly in postwar Britain.