<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Building Techoclogy &#187; Architecture</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.building-tech.com/topic/architecture/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.building-tech.com</link>
	<description>The Building Technology Resource</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:11:06 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Circulation</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/circulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/circulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural term]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/circulation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the field of architecture, circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building. In public buildings, circulation is of high importance; for example, in buildings such as museums, it is key to have a floor plan that allows continuous movement while minimizing the necessity to retrace one&#8217;s steps, allowing a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="circulation" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="213" alt="circulation" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/circulation.jpg" width="283" align="right" border="0" /> In the field of architecture, circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building. In public buildings, circulation is of high importance; for example, in buildings such as museums, it is key to have a floor plan that allows continuous movement while minimizing the necessity to retrace one&#8217;s steps, allowing a visitor to see each work in a sequential, natural fashion. </p>
<p>Structures such as elevators, escalators, and staircases are often referred to as circulation elements, as they are positioned and designed to optimize the flow of people through a building.</p>
<p> <span id="more-546"></span>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_(architecture)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
<h4>Incoming search terms:</h4><ul><li>architecture circulation</li><li>building circulation</li><li>circulation architecture</li><li>circulation movement within a building</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/circulation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Architectural designer</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-designer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-designer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural designer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/architectural-designer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An architectural designer is an architect that is primarily involved in the design of buildings or urban landscapes, as opposed to the construction documents and management required to construct it. Architectural designers have good creative skills, imagination and artistic talent. Although most students of are trained to be designers in school, not all become designers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An architectural designer is an architect that is primarily involved in the design of buildings or urban landscapes, as opposed to the construction documents and management required to construct it. Architectural designers have good creative skills, imagination and artistic talent. Although most students of are trained to be designers in school, not all become designers in practice. Non-registered designers are similar, but cannot legally refer to themselves as &quot;architectural&quot; designers in most parts of the world. </p>
<p>Most are referred to as building designers, especially when notmay use found within statutesRevised Statute 12- those licensed in that state. Most other states however prohibit the use of the term &quot;architectural&quot; as well except by licensed individuals. </p>
</p>
<p> <span id="more-473"></span>
<p>Many large architectural firms have architectural designers that the firm&#8217;s projects. These firms may actually have groups of designers (design studios), often divided into their smaller architectural firms, the construction. It is worth noting that most &quot;star&quot; .</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_designer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-designer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Architectural engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/architectural-engineering/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Architectural engineering, also known as Building Engineering, is the application of engineering principles and technology to building design and construction. Definitions of an architectural engineer may refer to: An engineer in the structural, mechanical, electrical, construction or other engineering fields of building design and construction. A licensed engineering professional in parts of the United States, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Architectural engineering, also known as Building Engineering, is the application of engineering principles and technology to building design and construction. Definitions of an architectural engineer may refer to:</p>
<ul>
<li>An engineer in the structural, mechanical, electrical, construction or other engineering fields of building design and construction. </li>
<li>A licensed engineering professional in parts of the United States, where architectural engineering may include complete building design. </li>
</ul>
<p> <span id="more-472"></span>
<ul>
<li></li>
<li>In informal contexts, and formally in some places, a professional synonymous with or similar to an architect. In some languages, &quot;architect&quot; is literally translated as &quot;architectural engineer&quot;. </li>
</ul>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_engineering" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-engineering/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Design</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/design/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering (See design disciplines below). As a verb, &#34;to design&#34; refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component with intention. As a noun, &#34;a design&#34; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="all_saints_chapel_design" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="205" alt="all_saints_chapel_design" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/all-saints-chapel-design.jpg" width="309" align="right" border="0" /> Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering (See design disciplines below). As a verb, &quot;to design&quot; refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component with intention. As a noun, &quot;a design&quot; is used for either the final (solution) plan (e.g. proposal, drawing, model, description) or the result of implementing that plan in the form of the final product of a design process. </p>
<p>This classification aside, in its broadest sense no other limitations exist and the final product can be anything from socks and jewellery to graphical user interfaces and charts. Even virtual concepts such as corporate identity and cultural traditions such as celebration of certain holidays are sometimes designed. More recently, processes (in general) have also been treated as products of design, giving new meaning to the term &quot;process design&quot;. </p>
</p>
<p> <span id="more-461"></span>
<p>The person designing is called a designer, which is also a term used for people who work professionally in one of the various design areas, usually also specifying which area is being dealt with (such as a fashion designer, concept designer or web designer). Designing often requires a designer to consider the aesthetic, functional, and many other aspects of an object or a process, which usually requires considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design. </p>
<p>Being defined so broadly, there is no universal language or unifying institution for designers of all disciplines. This allows for many differing philosophies and approaches toward the subject. However, serious study of design demands increased focus on the design process.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/design/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Contemporary architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/contemporary-architecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/contemporary-architecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/contemporary-architecture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary architecture is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time. The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and spaces (broadly speaking &#8211; since the 1980s) which are optimized for current use. &#160; Source: Wikipedia Incoming search terms:Contemporary Architecturecontemporary religious buildingsDefinition of Contemporary Architecture]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contemporary architecture is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time. The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and spaces (broadly speaking &#8211; since the 1980s) which are optimized for current use.</p>
<p> <span id="more-457"></span>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_architecture" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
<h4>Incoming search terms:</h4><ul><li>Contemporary Architecture</li><li>contemporary religious buildings</li><li>Definition of Contemporary Architecture</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/contemporary-architecture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Architectural theory</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/architectural-theory/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, or most importantly writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in most architecture schools and is practiced by the world&#8217;s leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry. Architectural theory is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="architectes_medievaux" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="189" alt="architectes_medievaux" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/architectes-medievaux.jpg" width="207" align="right" border="0" /> Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, or most importantly writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in most architecture schools and is practiced by the world&#8217;s leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry. </p>
<p>Architectural theory is often didactic, and theorists tend to stay close to or work from within schools. It has existed in some form since antiquity, and as publishing became more common, architectural theory gained an increased richness. Books, magazines, and journals published an unprecedented amount of works by architects and critics in the twentieth century. As a result, styles and movements formed and dissolved much more quickly than the relatively enduring modes in earlier history. It is to be expected that the use of the internet will further the discourse on architecture in the twenty first century.</p>
<p> <span id="more-456"></span>
</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_theory" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/architectural-theory/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Architect</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/architect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/architect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/news/architect/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An architect is trained and licensed in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi-, chief + tekton, builder), i.e. chief builder. A looser usage of Architect is: the translator of the building user&#8217;s requirements of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="architect" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="325" alt="architect" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/architect.jpg" width="251" align="right" border="0" /> An architect is trained and licensed in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi-, chief + tekton, builder), i.e. chief builder. A looser usage of Architect is: the translator of the building user&#8217;s requirements of and from a building into an inhabitable environment. Moreover, the words architect and architecture are used in the disciplines of engineering, e.g. computer software architect; however, in some of the world&#8217;s jurisdictions, the professional and commercial uses of these etymologic variants, are legally protected from such loose denotations. </p>
<p>Professionally, an architect&#8217;s decisions affect public safety, and thus must undergo specialized training and education, and a practicum for practical experience in order to qualify for and earn a licence to practice architecture; the practical, technical, and academic requirements for being a licenced architect vary.</p>
<p> <span id="more-437"></span>
<p>The most prestigious award a living architect can receive is the Pritzker Prize, often termed the &quot;Nobel Prize for architecture.&quot; Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Architects who have made outstanding contributions to the profession through design excellence, contributions in the field of architectural education, or to the advancement of the profession are elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and are given the postnomial FAIA after their name. Other prestigious architectural awards are the Alvar Aalto Medal (Finland) and the Carlsberg Architecture Prize (Denmark).</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/architect/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Landscape architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/landscape-architecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/landscape-architecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/landscape-architecture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Landscape architecture is the most modern of the environment professions and represents a synthesis of arts, science, and technical philosophies and practices that seek to care for the Earth&#8217;s landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner. It involves the investigation and designed response to the landscape. The scope of the profession includes master [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="landscape_in_centralpark" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="184" alt="landscape_in_centralpark" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/landscape-in-centralpark.png" width="300" align="right" border="0" /> Landscape architecture is the most modern of the environment professions and represents a synthesis of arts, science, and technical philosophies and practices that seek to care for the Earth&#8217;s landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner. It involves the investigation and designed response to the landscape. </p>
<p>The scope of the profession includes master planning, site planning, environmental restoration, town or urban planning, urban design, parks and recreation planning; green infrastructure planning and provision, all at varying scales of design, planning and management. A practitioner in the field of landscape architecture is called a landscape architect.</p>
<p> <span id="more-433"></span>
<p>The history of landscape architecture is related to the history of gardening. Both arts are concerned with the composition of planting, landform, water, paving and other structures but:</p>
<ul>
<li>garden design is essentially concerned with enclosed private space such as parks,gardens etc. </li>
<li>landscape design is concerned with the design of enclosed space, as well as unenclosed space which is open to the public town squares,country parks,greenways etc. </li>
</ul>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_architecture" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/landscape-architecture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/architecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/architecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architectural ornamentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural Revivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architectural style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/definitions/architecture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The term architecture (from Greek word αρχιτεκτονική,pronounced architektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to provide shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="brunelleshi_anb_duomo_of_florence" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="232" alt="brunelleshi_anb_duomo_of_florence" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/brunelleshi-anb-duomo-of-florence.jpg" width="179" align="right" border="0" /> The term architecture (from Greek word αρχιτεκτονική,pronounced architektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. </p>
<p>As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to provide shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding landscape (see town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture) to the micro level of architectural or construction details and, sometimes, furniture. Wider still, architecture is the activity of designing any kind of system. </p>
</p>
<p> <span id="more-431"></span>
<p>As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services. </p>
<p>As documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed. </p>
<p>Building architects have as their primary object providing for the spatial and shelter needs of people in groups of some kind (families, schools, churches, businesses, etc.) by the creative organization of materials and components in a land- or city-scape, dealing with mass, space, form, volume, texture, structure, light, shadow, materials, program, and pragmatic elements such as cost, construction limitations and technology, to achieve an end which is functional, economical, practical and often with artistic and aesthetic aspects. This distinguishes architecture from engineering design, which has as its primary object the creative manipulation of materials and forms using mathematical and scientific principles. </p>
<p>Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often known primarily through their architectural achievements. Such buildings as the pyramids of Egypt and the Roman Colosseum are cultural symbols, and are an important link in public consciousness, even when scholars have discovered much about a past civilization through other means. Cities, regions and cultures continue to identify themselves with (and are known by) their architectural monuments.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><em>Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
<h4>Incoming search terms:</h4><ul><li>building technology of colosseum</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/architecture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Eastlake Style</title>
		<link>http://www.building-tech.com/eastlake-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.building-tech.com/eastlake-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architectural style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastlake Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Anne Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Anne Style architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.building-tech.com/reference/architectural-style/eastlake-style/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eastlake Style is named for Charles Eastlake (1836-1906), an Englishman whose Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details (1868) was highly influential in American design, by translating John Ruskin and William Morris&#8217; ideas into a decorative vocabulary for the carpenter and builder. The Eastlake style&#8217;s importance is delineated by the use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="eastlake_style_house" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="320" alt="eastlake_style_house" src="http://www.building-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/eastlake-style-house.jpg" width="205" align="right" border="0" /> The Eastlake Style is named for Charles Eastlake (1836-1906), an Englishman whose Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details (1868) was highly influential in American design, by translating John Ruskin and William Morris&#8217; ideas into a decorative vocabulary for the carpenter and builder. </p>
<p>The Eastlake style&#8217;s importance is delineated by the use of geometric shapes made possible by modern machine techniques of the era. By making these intricate shapes with machines, it was possible to duplicate the exact complex patterns repeatedly, and in unusual places, such as the inside plates of a hinge. </p>
<p> <span id="more-223"></span>
<p>It&#8217;s important to realize, however, that Eastlake always emphasized &quot;simple, elegant motifs&quot; rather than the florid decorative excesses of high Victorian style, and the majority of the items labeled &quot;Eastlake&quot; appalled him, as he frequently wrote during his lifetime. This is particularly evident in the United States, where basic Eastlake motifs were usually multiplied into a dizzying geometric mandala of Victorian intricacy.</p>
<p>As the 20th century approached, there was then a revival of old forms in furniture under the name of the Queen Anne, although frequently spoken of by dealers, with absurd anachronism, as the Early English. While the articles made according to Mr. Eastlake&#8217;s instructions may be considered a reform, and the Neo-Jacobean a fashion, the revival of the Queen Anne seems to have sufficiently positive features to be regarded as a style. </p>
<p>This revival is said to be the work of that knot of poets and artists and connoisseurs of bric-a-brac at whose head stand Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, and the traces of Italian fancy and English quaintness combined in it declare that it might have been their work if it is not. </p>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Style_architecture#Stick_Style" target="_blank">Eastlake Style &#8211; Wikipedia</a> </li>
</ul>
<h4>Incoming search terms:</h4><ul><li>Eastlake style</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.building-tech.com/eastlake-style/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

