By combining the random and organic growth of plants with the rectilinear and staid architecture of most existing homes, we can soften hard edges and incorporate our home into its surrounding environment.
Because it stood instead at Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, the Summit was seen as a slap in the face to Manhattan and its rectilinear, monochromatic, steel-and-glass architecture.
Multiple sketches of "Ranchos Church" and an "Untitled (Taos Studio)" watercolor from 1929 highlight the rectilinear outlines of the local Hispanic architecture.
Because of the high data dependency between ADL (adaptive directional lifting) operations, such as interpolation, directional prediction and update, the existing CUDA-specific (Compute Unified Device Architecture) implementation of traditional rectilinear lifting-based transform is difficult to be used for ADL-based transform.
Think of Alison and Peter Smithson's seminal, scrupulously rectilinear Hunstanton School – a shining example of postwar modernist architecture.
An almost violent, disruptive placement of angular rectilinear forms and spaces often appeared in similar works of architecture that can be termed "deconstructivist" architecture, a movement related to the literary theory of the same name (see deconstruction).
Ritual vessels, oracle bones (used by shamans in divination), ceremonial jade objects and ornaments, and architecture (pounded-earth foundations, protective city walls, rectilinear organization) reflect an advanced material culture on the threshold of the Bronze Age.
March 27, 1886 Aachen, Germany August 17 , 1969Chicago, Illinois Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, original name Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (born March 27 , 1886 Aachen, Germany died August 17 , 1969 Chicago, Illinois, U.S). German-born American architect whose rectilinear forms, crafted in elegant simplicity, epitomized the International Style of architecture.
With its glass curtain walls and spare rectilinear forms, it crystallised what would become the dominant type of modernist architecture.
After graduating in 1927 from the school of architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, O'Gorman began designing spare, rectilinear houses and buildings in the style of the Functionalist architect Le Corbusier.
