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  • same period, Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape Garden, by the Japanese ... During the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), landscape gardening attained new ...
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  • in Australian art has been the Australian landscape, as evidenced by the works ... dance), carving and weaving, and the architecture of the marae maintains ...
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  • senior high schools and a School of Art and Architecture. ... " under the Tokyo Metropolitan Landscape Regulations, which aim ...
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  • with Catherine's patronage of the arts, architecture and sculpture and with her creation of the famed Hermitage Museum. However, mother and ...
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  • 2006. Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740 ... *Kennedy, Barbara A. Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development ...
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  • Western Georgia's landscape ranges from low-land marsh-forests ... surrounded by a citadel wall. Urban architecture has a strong Soviet influence ...
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  • di Milano and Statal University teach architecture and engineering. Business ... that are carefully integrated within its landscape. It was a center ...
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  • for its festivals, contemporary architecture, nightlife and avant-garde ... area with marshy terrain. Berlin's landscape was shaped by ice sheets ...
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  • It greatly influenced both the architecture and general culture not ... the architect, Louis Le Vau, and the landscape architect, André Le Nôtre ...
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  • with openly nationalistic and modernist architecture. Abidin Kusno ... city means that foreign influence on its landscape and culture, such as the ...
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  • For a small territory, the Nepali landscape is uncommonly diverse, ... The spectacular landscape and deep, exotic culture of Nepal represents ...
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  • very north, hardy birches dominate the landscape. In the mountains of northern ... from folk culture as well as the beauty of the landscape. ...
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  • is the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art,[http://www.mcgill ... programs include Agricultural Sciences, Architecture and Infrastructure Engineering ...
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  • a means of creating a national identity. Landscape artists and photographers ... === Architecture === From its origins about 9,000 years ago to the ...
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  • * Landscape ecology, which studies the interactions between discrete ... ecology (including such subfields as landscape ecology, conservation biology ...
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  • of the Yucatán peninsula is a karst landscape. Sinkholes, locally called ... remains show ceremonial Mesoamerican architecture dating back some 3,000 ...
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  • of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland ... His architecture teacher in the Art School was architect René Chapallaz ...
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  • The creation of the lakes significantly altered the Ozark landscape ... of people with a distinct culture, architecture, and dialect shared by ...
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  • and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, ... *Landscape archaeology involves identifying and studying sites as ...
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  • the École des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. In 1921, he began his ... The story ends with a portrait of the landscape where the meeting ...
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  • systems, languages derived from Latin, even in the landscape and roads of Europe and the Middle East. Etruscan culture, absorbed by Rome, has also contributed ...
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  • Image:Chortenladakh.jpg|Ladakh landscape is full of chörtens (stupas). ... A unique feature of Tibetan architecture is that many of the houses ...
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  • the Elder who actually did many of the landscape backgrounds of Ruben's ... * Vlieghe, Hans. 1998. Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700. New ...
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  • Chalukyas patronized a unique style of architecture and Kannada literature ... adhering to the Vesara style of architecture.K. A. Nilakanta Sastri ...
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  • natural beauty, British heritage and architecture, and temperate climate ... and computers, engineering, architecture and telecommunications ...
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  • in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and ... first half of the twentieth century in architecture, art, and literature; ...
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  • Madeira Island's geographical position and mountainous landscape result in a very pleasant climate. Temperatures are about 72°F (22°C ...
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  • The Mississippians had no writing system or stone architecture. They ... had built the mounds dotting the landscape. Mississippian peoples were ...
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  • Vampyr) evoke the presence of unseen beings, landscape and architecture are invested, by lighting, design and composition, with supernatural force. ...
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  • [[Image:Bas-congo.JPG|thumb|225px|Bas-Congo landscape.]] ... Houses in rural Congo reflect the landscape in the material used ...
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  • consequence the growth of a modern urban landscape has all but stopped. Specifically ... IV's renaissance grid dominate the architecture around the city center ...
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  • whether it be on a large scale, as in architecture, or on a small scale, ... * Social semiotics expands the interpretable semiotic landscape to ...
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  • Because of its rugged mountainous landscape, Fujian suffered from ... *Hakka architecture ==Gallery== Image:Mosque in Quanzhou, Fujian, China ...
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  • States. Four European geographic and landscape regions meet in Slovenia: ... Slovenia has various styles of architecture dating from the 1100s ...
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  • as multi-dimensional sacred architecture and in this quality are ... in Vajrayana Buddhism usually depicts a landscape of the Buddha land or the ...
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  • are also a feature of the city's ethnic landscape. ... A prominent addition to the city's landscape is the giant tent-frame ...
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  • over the world today. The history of architecture in Italy is one that begins ... of the ancient and classical architecture forms from this region ...
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  • Pollock style and traditional figure and landscape based art styles, as well ... Pollock style and traditional figure and landscape based art styles, as well ...
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  • in an entirely built-up and urban landscape. About 83 percent of Singapore ... Singapore has become a center for modern architecture as older buildings ...
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  • Eastern Turkey has a more mountainous landscape, and is home to the ... that started in the 1980s changed the landscape of the country, with successive ...
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  • of the UAE in that much of Dubai's landscape is highlighted by sandy ... chain has an arid, jagged and shattered landscape, whose mountains rise to ...
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  • petroleum production. Much of the landscape remains scarred with rusting ... the plain and anonymous Soviet style of architecture. Baku has the Maiden Tower ...
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  • hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with dozens of ... and Islam to Auckland's religious landscape. There is also a small ...
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  • History of Italian Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prenctice Hall, 2006. ISBN 978-0131882478 * Meyer, Julius ...
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  • 1960s and 1970s. While the spectacular landscape and the lure of the nearby ... since that date. Most of ancient Nepali Architecture present in Nepal today ...
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  • population, and is known for its architecture, festivals, sports, and ... are major players on the national financial landscape. ...
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  • heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already ... Beethoven's use of tonal architecture in such a way as to allow ...
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  • Frederick H. Chapin. He described the landscape and structures in an 1890 ... that may be related to Chaco Canyon architecture. Spruce Tree House: ...
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  • of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints. The odd angles ... *Ōkawa, Naomi. Edo Architecture, Katsura, and Nikko. The Heibonsha ...
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  • of the ancient world has resulted in a landscape with innumerable fascinating ... Contemporary Armenian architecture has followed a tradition of simplicity ...
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  • nature from her mother, an amateur landscape artist, Aduella Beebe Hyatt. ... winter home in the style of the Moorish architecture of the Spanish Mediterranean ...
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  • The Finnish landscape is mostly flat with few hills and its highest ... also museums and examples of ancient architecture remaining from the Swedish ...
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  • Terre-de-Bas Les Saintes' typical landscape is composed of volcanic ... influences. The mix is visible in the architecture, which varies from French ...
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  • mostly in the fields of design and architecture, the best-known of which ... that he tried to influence (such as architecture), or simply dismissed ...
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  • elements extend to its historic buildings, architecture, art, landscape, boundaries, and monuments. Venezuelan culture has been shaped by indigenous, ...
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  • Park Company, were modeled on Swiss architecture as part of Hill's ... e_books/harrison/harrison8.htm Architecture in the Parks - Great Northern ...
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  • and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, ... * Landscape Archaeology * Maritime Archaeology * Museum Studies ...
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  • Antigua and Barbuda are low islands whose landscape is composed of limestone ... It is manifested in the gingerbread architecture found around the capital ...
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  • colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became ...
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  • [[Image:Bhutan landscape.jpg|thumb|250px|Terraced farming in the Punakha ... A landscape that varies from hilly to ruggedly mountainous has made ...
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  • traditional village life and the Swedish landscape, provided the basis of ... The plates illustrate the topography, architecture, industry, and wildlife ...
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  • diverse influences as Japanese music, the landscape of Bryce Canyon National ... of his background in mathematics and architecture, and use them in his music ...
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  • many buildings with notable architecture including the Metropolitan ... Cleveland to create his finest landscape architecture, preserving geographical ...
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  • Malwa plateau sits at 500 metres, and the landscape generally slopes towards ... shown against a solid color patch, and architecture painted in vibrant colours. ...
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  • The diversity of the nation's culture, people, and landscape ... old army fortresses, towers, and other architecture. The Kalasha valley in ...
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  • features a neoclassical style of architecture. While there are numerous ... century Bessarabian painters worked on landscape paintings as well as Soviet ...
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  • its shrines (jinja) reflect the natural landscape. The earliest jinja were ... (origami), and traditional Japanese architecture and garden design. A link ...
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  • * Wadi Rum Protected Area—The moonlike landscape of Wadi Rum is ... is famous for its its ancient Roman architecture, including the colonnaded ...
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  • Ukraine's culture has unique art, architecture, cuisine, dance ... The Ukrainian landscape consists of the Polissya and Volyn northern ...
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  • The architecture of Ladakh contains Tibetan and Indian influences, and monastic architecture reflects a deeply Buddhist approach. The Buddhist ...
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  • changes in the political and cultural landscape of the region. Although ... of many important works of Bosnian architecture (such as the Stari most ...
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  • and skyscrapers to change the city landscape. Growth has been especially strong in the finance, banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, and ...
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  • 3,000 feet (one kilometer) thick scoured the landscape of the state and sculpted its current terrain. The Wisconsin glaciation receded 12,000 years ...
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  • a long and early influence of ecclesiastical architecture, with Western European and American influences dominating, rather than any particular vernacular ...
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  • Iran is one of the world's most mountainous countries; its landscape ... major power. Under their rule, Persian architecture flowered again. ...
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  • lead to milder temperatures and drier landscape, has proven an exception to that type of climate and vegetation. Some areas are desert-like. ...
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  • largest country (by total area), the U.S. landscape varies greatly: temperate ... The climate varies along with the landscape, from tropical in Hawaii ...
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  • Central Park, which is a great example of landscape architecture, as well as a major source of recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. The city ...
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  • Sudetes and the Carpathians. The moraine landscape of northern Poland contains ... boundary of the influences of Western architecture on the continent. History ...
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  • and Grunge music, among others. Its landscape and location play a large ... * Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. 1994. Shaping Seattle architecture: a historical ...
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  • Israel's architecture is diverse, including a good deal of Islamic architecture, dating from 1250 to 1517. Most Israelis live in modern ...
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  • regions vary in climate, elevation, and landscape, providing dramatic contrasts ... by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such ...
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  • But in general, Chinese Daoist architecture has no universal features ... Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Center ...
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  • Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University. ... *Hartt, Frederick. Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture ...
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  • style began to dominate the urban Belgian landscape (e.g. Justice Palace of Brussels, 50th-Anniversary Park in Brussels). Brussels became one ...
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  • that came to dominate the philosophical landscape of the West, art music ... to the golden age of sculpture, architecture and art of classical antiquity ...
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  • its main river, the Tagus. The northern landscape comprises the mountainous ... Guimarães is a good example of native architecture. The houses were round ...
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  • excellent Romanesque and early Gothic architecture, the court attracted leading ... a large splintering of the political landscape in the Nationalrat. Suffrage ...
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  • regions of Thrace, Moesia, and Macedonia. The landscape ranges from the Alpine snow-capped peaks in Rila, Pirin and the Balkan Mountains to the mild ...
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  • *Jong, E. de. Nature and Art: Dutch Garden and Landscape Architecture, 1650-1740. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ISBN ...
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  • families. This reflected an economic landscape where most people tended ... The earliest remnants of architecture in the United Kingdom are mainly ...
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  • component-based model of classical architecture. Their structurally perfect ... letterpress beginnings of a newspaper landscape as well as a broad market ...
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  • Nearly 500 rivers lace Panama's rugged landscape. Mostly unnavigable ... masks and pottery, as well as in its architecture, cuisine and festivals ...
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  • short-lived quarterly magazine called Landscape Architecture. Hicks and Stuart, 65. [[File:John Reed journalist.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A native ...
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  • has strongly Western European-inspired architecture and culture, which is ... Palmyra", due to its extravagant architecture. title="Palmyra ...
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  • although it helps to diversify the landscape. [[Image:Belfast panorama ... Architecture, particularly in Belfast during "The Troubles," ...
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  • Newer additions to Paris' park landscape are the Parc de la Villette, built by the architect Bernard Tschumi on the location of Paris' ...
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  • as if the world were at its end, with the architecture a landscape of vague alleys and parts of ships and huge phallic columns that overshadow the ...
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  • as writing, methods of transportation, architecture, and impressive bronze ... the arts, philosophy, and social life. Landscape art and portrait paintings ...
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  • families. This reflected an economic landscape where the general populace ... The earliest remnants of architecture in the United Kingdom are mainly ...
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