"Art for Life: The Culture of Aesthetics in Japan and the West," a daylong symposium about the history of the exchange of design and architecture ideas among Japan, the United States and European countries, will take place on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $25; students, $5. Antiques on Park Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue (66th Street); (212) 47212180.
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For architecture, Day suggested special laws, including a Law of the Idea in Architecture: the idea of shelter is the fundamental architectural idea.
His long-exposure photographs of hectic urban streets blur foot and car traffic while retaining architecture, an idea that's as old as Daguerre.
For Mr. Perrin, who grew up skateboarding in Paris in the 1970s and was drawn to Los Angeles for its forward-thinking architecture, the idea of building a kind of livable half-pipe was irresistible.
When Oral Göktaş and Sevince Bayrak of, emerging Istanbul based, SO? Architecture and ideas entered a design competition hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts and Turkishceramics, they had no idea how inventive they would have to be when approaching the task.
But this is more an architecture of ideas and commentary than of the built world.
The contrasted residences of the poor made a subtler case for the relationship between architecture and ideas.
Just as former political opponents of the government followed American tanks into Iraq, intellectuals did too, hoping to shape an architecture of ideas to buttress their new democracy.
Second, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., who popularized the term 'landscape architecture,' adapted ideas from especially English estate designs for North American urban parks.
