It may come as a surprise to some, therefore, that our conclusion on that question is that no, a formal architecture policy is not required.
You can still see the bones of the murals, the formal architecture — Rothko's floating blocks, made to resemble portals in these pieces — but the glow is gone.
But some of the most interesting games of the past 40 years have been the ones that have subverted this concept of game space as a very formal architecture.
"As set-up scenarios go, this could hardly be bettered," wrote Bert Wright in the Sunday Times, who admired Ryan's "mastery of formal architecture, of voice, character, and tone".
The final section, "Diamonds," is Balanchine's homage to the grand 19th-century Petipa ballets, with their formal architecture of corps de ballet and soloists, their imperial pomp and classical purity.
Wherever possible he uses recyclable materials, an art he refined in the 1990s when he put aside formal architecture to work with craftsmen and builders as they converted old houses into art galleries, music halls, even hair salons.
The novel is set in 1989, and Petterson makes a powerful formal architecture of that year's political upheavals: as Arvid struggles to breach the wall of his mother's estrangement or indifference, so the Berlin Wall is coming down and, with it, the final frail rationale of the enormous hopes of European Communism.
The shape of the land was trapezoidal, which prompted the Tower's architects, Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz and Andrew C. Mackenzie, to abandon any notion of formal architecture in favor of a Gothic style of what the described as picturesque irregularity, a cross between Giotto's Campanile in Florence and the Flatiron Building on Twenty-third and Fifth. Twenty-third and Fifth
An archaeological sounding at Jericho, which carried back the history of settled communities far beyond the earliest finds made in the Tigris valley, uncovered a small, symmetrically planned religious building (dating from approximately 7000 bc); this should perhaps be regarded as the earliest attempt at formal architecture.
Semper was very educated in formal architecture and wrote a highly regarded book about style [33].
