History of architecture

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History of architecture (V360): Historical study of building design and architectural movements.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
A Chapel, a Novel, and the Word of God. Virginia Brookes	This essay attempts to portray two artefacts, the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Oxford, and the novel Adam Bede by George Eliot. These two...		view
A Summary of 19th century British furniture style development	A Summary of 19th century British furniture style development	Nineteenth-century, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Victorian, Designers	view
A Summary of 20th century furniture style development	A Summary of 20th century furniture style development	Twentieth-century, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Designers	view
Analysis of Contemporary Architecture	A heavily text-oriented course provided by MIT, which explores the work of some of the most canonical architects of the Modernist generation....		view
Architectus - architectural drawings online	The Architectus archive contains unique student designs from the 1930s to the 1950s and work from famous post-war architects like...		view
Art and Architecture	A thought-provoking set of interactive exercises and on-line videos, provided by the Open University, which explores the institutional – and...		view
Arts of Asia	A very wide-ranging introductory-historical overview of the visual and material arts of China, India and Japan. This course contains links to a...		view
Assignment Questions for Furnishings and Interiors 1850 to the Present Day	Sample assignment questions for Furnishings and Interiors 1850 to the Present Day.	Assignment, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Nineteenth-century, Twentieth-century, Victorian	view
Buckminster Fuller – Thinking Out Loud	A neatly produced interactive visual (still and video), biographical and historical resource – relating to the work of Buckminster Fuller.	Abbeys	view
Designs for the Altar of St. Paul’s Cathedral: The Comparative Visions of Sir Christopher Wren and Thomas Garner, Shanna M. Patton	Thomas Garner’s 1888 design for the altar and reredos at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral is typically remembered as controversial and inconsistent...		view

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