[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

The course covers key non-Western cultures (Pre-Columbian America, India, China and Japan) and the history of architecture in the West from the early Renaissance to the Rococo. Instructors’ lectures ...

Any historiography of architecture is inherently implicated and incomplete by definition: implicated because it demonstrates the interpretation and curation of examples by the one who writes it, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain is one of the world's leading ...

The Department of Architecture was established in 1929 and located on the third floor of McGuffey Hall. Under the direction of Harvey Hiestand, who led the department until 1938, the first class ...

Revised edition of "History of furniture : a global view" - published 2009. (from back cover). In today's globalized world, every aspect of our lives is affected by global interconnectedness from what ...

Architect David Ferrer writes a history of Europe that takes a journey through the continent's past through its most representative and groundbreaking constructions, exploring from pleasure to ...

Nearly a century after Le Corbusier proposed his now-famous five points of architecture, I proposed five points toward the decolonization of architecture as part of the exhibition Cairo Modern. These ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

In 1933, the Finnish architect and designer Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto, along with his first wife, Aino, completed the Paimio Sanatorium, a facility for the treatment of tuberculosis in southwest Finland ...