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    the use of tectonics and its opposite, atectonics, can be found at the AEG turbine factory: Peter Behrens, the architect, had applied tectonics by revealing...
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    Harper, Douglas. "tectonic". Online Etymology Dictionary. Geologists (as distinct from architects) may define tectonics as "the architecture of the Earth's...
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  • edu. "Urban Science Institute-Mission". www.earthnomad.com. "ARK tectonics Architecture | Urban Design | Urban Planning". www.earthnomad.net. Rise of the...
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    Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process...
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  • The USC School of Architecture is the architecture school at the University of Southern California. Located in Los Angeles, California, it is one of the...
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    Karen M. Kensek. Clipper Lab (1995) Facade Tectonics: The Building Envelope. The Journal of the Facade Tectonics Institute, With Karen M. Kensek. 2007–2017...
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  • feeling of strength and security, while Karl Bötticher as part of his "tectonics" suggested splitting the design into a structural "core-form" (German:...
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    Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...
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    deposits—are found, preserving Gondwanan signatures. The region’s tectonic architecture is further imprinted by the active Karakoram fault system, which...
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    Karen M. Kensek (category MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni)
    Marc Eugene Schiler, and Ralph Lewis Knowles. She co-founded the Facade Tectonics Institute in 2007, together with Douglas Noble and Mic Patterson, as a...
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    Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient...
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    Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised...
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    commonly split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles differing over time but with some...
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    Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide, influencing mainly areas of what was...
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    Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual...
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    of it demonstrating 'the ongoing birth of an ocean witnessed through tectonics and volcanism in an extreme evaporite arid environment', the International...
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    Spanish Renaissance architecture emerged in the late 15th century as Renaissance ideals reached Spain, blending with existing Gothic forms. Rooted in Renaissance...
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  • September 2019. The continent was uncovered through simulations of plate tectonics with the GPlates software. The continent formed by rifting from the north...
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    (October 2002). "Tectonic features of the southern Sumatra-western Java forearc of Indonesia: TECTONICS OF SOUTHERN SUMATRA". Tectonics. 21 (5): 11–1–11–15...
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    Rift (category Plate tectonics)
    the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called...
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    Deconstructivism is a postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building...
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    architecture has come to reflect different styles. In the early 20th century Jewish architects sought to combine Occidental and Oriental architecture...
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  • Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also...
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    Mountain formation (category Plate tectonics)
    classification useful on a local scale predates plate tectonics and adds to these categories. Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries...
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    crust. Before the development of the theory of plate tectonics and before the internal architecture of thrust belts became well understood, the term was...
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  • Winka Dubbeldam (category Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni)
    architectural design at Columbia University, she established her own firm, Archi-Tectonics (with 15 employees), in 1994 in New York City. Her use of a combination...
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    Kenneth Frampton (category American architecture writers)
    'momentary' understanding of the autonomy of architectural practice in terms of its own concerns with form and tectonics, which cannot be reduced to economics...
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    Greg Lynn (category Princeton University School of Architecture alumni)
    from ANY magazine "Blobs, or Why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy" in which he coined the term "blob architecture" later to become "blobitecture"...
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    and the Neogene tectonics of the central–eastern Mediterranean region". In Dilek, Y.; Pavlides, S. (eds.). Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in...
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    Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface. The term typically refers to the curved grooves (flutes)...
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