Sentence examples for past architecture from inspiring English sources

Where history seeks to account for the figures, events, and ideas of the past, architecture, as a socially entrenched spatial practice, necessarily projects into the future.

The designer's reference base addressed principles taken from past architecture and grafted onto modern tradition.

Taken together with contemporary norms that shape our understanding of past architecture (Spector 2001), preservation and conservation are at least partly bound to present-day design conceptions.

Nevertheless, it is not by turning to the city idea that we have known, or feeling nostalgia for past architecture but, rather, by accepting that this phase of bewilderment has to be surpassed, that we can regenerate our perceptive capacities and renew the gaze with which we usually grasp what is considered as unknown.

And he re-interpreted elements of past architecture in new and fresh ways -- moving progressively backward in time from early modernism at the beginning of his career to pre-classical antiquity in recent decades, and yet he also designed buildings that will look, as my small painting suggests, just as good as ruins as they do, inhabited, now.

But the Prora project is highlighting the ­always-thorny question here of how to deal with the most tangible relic of Germany's troubled past: Nazi architecture.

Hines, the author of "William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha" and "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture," is as much social historian as architectural historian, and he sets buildings down, slowly, in the context of the times.

Currently, his practice Ecosistema Urbano is developing urban regeneration projects in United States, Spain, Paraguay, Mexico and Bangladesh and his work was part of the exhibition "Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute" held at the Chicago Art Institute.

In addition to the basic design courses and studios in architectural education which some have deemed to be the sole mediums to elicit creativity, a history course which underscores and examines creative leaps in the past of architecture can be useful in that regard.

These historic building and artworks are our heritage which tells us about the past art, architecture and enriches us with cultural values.

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