Commensurate with the complexities of the 21st century, the goal of NEAR is to reach across disciplines to extend architectural knowledge and its modes of practice".
The key problem in making these visualizations successful is summarizing in a single image the extended linear architectural fabric seen at eye level along a possibly curving or turning street, and doing so without introducing excessive distortions.
It was a worthy idea, and sometimes worked, but it hit two snags: one was that, if the prospects of a place were too dire, a jaunty bit of hi-techery was not enough to rescue them; the other was the modern British inability to plan new places coherently or well, and thus extend the architectural ambition of the lottery building to its immediate surroundings.
In particular, the LSA thread included the Asynchronous Service Interaction subtask, part of a set of subtasks aimed at enhancing the OGC Baseline, by extending OGC architectural designs through efforts that cross over several individual standards and services and are applied in a much wider scope.
The Bastille design was copied at Pierrefonds and Tarascon in France, while its architectural influence extended as far as Nunney Castle in south-west England.
Symphonies don't come much more epic than Bruckner's Eighth, a leviathan of a work in which the composer extended his massive musical-architectural forms to unprecedented proportions.
In the present-day, sociology of the architectural profession offers a detailed empirical perspective (Gutman 1988), and this can be extended to a sociology of architectural worlds, modeled on Becker's sociology of art worlds.
This exclusive quality also extends to the architectural works Alexander cites as examples of good design which are drawn almost entirely from either Medieval Europe or his own work (Kalb 2014), the latter of which is said to resemble "the hodgepodge stone, half-timber, and clapboard houses of southern England, where he grew up" (Kohn 2002, p 34).
These depict the dead man frontally posed beneath a gabled pediment of mixed architectural style, hands extended at right angles from the body and bent upward from the elbow in the orans (praying) position, a pose that appeared frequently in the earliest Christian art in Rome.
