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Topic:
- Architecture
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Architecture is the activity of designing
buildings. Architecture can also mean the style in
which buildings are designed.
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- Harder - The term
architecture can be used to mean several things,
all related to buildings. It may mean the art and
science of building, practiced by persons called
architects. Or, architecture may mean the actual
buildings. Architecture can also be the building
style of a particular culture or artistic movement.
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- Architectural
Styles
- http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w367/styles/index.htm
- This website can help you identify modern house
styles.
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- Built
in America from Historic American
Buildings Survey & Historic American
Engineering Record, Library of Congress
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html
- The projects at this site document achievements
in architecture, engineering, and design in the
U.S. and its territories through a comprehensive
range of building types and engineering
technologies including examples as diverse as
windmills, one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate
Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright.
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- Carmine's
Introduction to Architecture
- http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/arch1/index.html
- The website uses photos and brief text to show
the connection between art and architecture. It
also links to some good beginning architecture
activities.
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- Great
Buildings Collection
- http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html
- An excellent international and historical
directory for built architecture. Over 750
buildings and their architects are available,
complete with brief biographical information,
sometimes the designers words, descriptions of the
buildings, and a short resource list. Each building
has construction date, location, building type, and
other fields, all searchable.
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- Explore several of the websites below;
then complete a project or activity:
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- Develop an Architecture
Timeline. After looking at sites like
Architecture
Through the Ages and Architecture
Through the Ages, put together a
timeline that identifies the most
important events in the history of
architectural development.
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- Inventory Your Community's House
Styles. Identify the different house
styles represented in your community. For
assistance, visit Architectural
Styles. Put your findings into a
database that includes the house location,
identification of its style and main
features, along with a digital photo.
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- Design Your Own Home. First,
study examples of modern styles found at
the architecture websites, then sketch out
a floor plan of your dream home. You may
want to draw it on the computer. Add room
sizes. After you have the floor plan(s)
completed, you can draw a roof plan or a
perspective view. Find pictures of unique
features that you wish to include and put
them with your drawings.
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- Identify What It Takes to be an
Architect. Find about becoming an
architect at FutureScan's I
Want to Be An Architect. Investigate a
career as an architect and other related
fields. List the required attributes for
the field; group those things that can be
accomplished before entering a university
and those to be gained by completion of a
degree. You may want to visit a university
program in architecture like MIT's
School of Architecture and Planning or
UCLA's
School of Art and Architecture.
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- Complete an Architecture WebQuest.
Adapt or follow the directions to
complete one of the following:
- 1) The
Architect's Chair (Grade 10-12)
- 2) Shapes
in Architecture (Grade 10-12)
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- Websites By Kids for Kids
- Architecture
Through the Ages (1998 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3786/
- Study the development of architecture
throughout history. The site has pictures showing
examples of architectural elements.
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- Architecture
Through the Ages (ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.advanced.org/10098/
- Here you find discussion on the many types of
architecture throughout history and the ways they
have shaped our lives.
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- Architecture
Through the Ages (ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.advanced.org/18778/
- Website discusses all types of architecture
from around the world and time periods. Enjoy your
trip through architecture's history, and learn a
thing or two.
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- Inside
Architecture (ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.advanced.org/11114/
- Architecture is a building art with many
styles, and it has been with us since the beginning
of time. The historical time line at the site
starts at 2700 BC with Egyptian architecture. Learn
about styles such as the architecture of the
Chinese, Roman, Inca, Renaissance, and Victorian
Eras. Click anywhere on the world map and you can
see and read about the architecture styles in that
area of the world.
- Similar Website:
- 2) Inside Architecture http://library.advanced.org/16545/
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- More to Explore
- Architecture
- http://architecture.about.com/
- This links-site connects to a variety of
architecture articles and information.
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- Architecture
Virtual Library
- http://www.clr.toronto.edu/VIRTUALLIB/arch.html
- This is an excellent, searchable architecture
virtual library.
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- Digital
Archive of American Architecture
- http://www.bc.edu./bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/
- An overview of the history of American
architecture with many images, beginning with the
earliest colonial structures of the 17th century
including houses, churches, and industrial
buildings.
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- Wright
Web Guide
- http://www.cypgrp.com/flw/
- This website has information about 20th century
architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and links to tours,
photos, and links to related sites.
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- Websites for Teachers
- Architectural
Education Resource Center (AERC)
- http://www.ncounty.net/aerc/
- The AERC mission is to enable children to
appreciate and make informed decisions about the
built environment, to encourage children to use the
architectural design process to express their
ideas, and to provide teachers with the support and
training to build community-based,
multidisciplinary design projects into their
curricula.
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- Geometry
and Architecture in Your Community from
PBS Teachersource
- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/architecture/activity2.shtm
- Help students to see the mathematics in the
shapes and designs of the world around them.
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- Spaces
and Places (Grade 3-5)
- http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Sampler/b.html
- Children engage in a range of activities
including interpreting the expressive qualities of
architectural spaces, collecting and displaying
photographs that depict many types of buildings,
drawing floor plans, studying influences of
geography and environment on architects' plans, and
constructing their own model buildings with paper
forms. The first two lessons are written for third
graders, lessons three and four are for the fourth
grade, and lessons five and six are intended for
fifth graders.
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- Need
a House? Call Ms. Mouse! (Grade
1)
- http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/curry/class/Museums/Teacher_Guide/General/Need.a.House.html
- Students will discern shapes and patterns in
architecture and identify specific building
materials according to color, texture, and its use
or need.
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- Our
Architectural Heritage
- http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Architecture/ARC0001.html
- This lesson introduces learners to historical
architectural characteristics and leads them to
analyze building styles & materials in regard
to geographical location
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builder
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architect
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traffic patterns
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appearance
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function
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durability
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Frank
Lloyd Wright
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office building
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school
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material
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architecture
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building
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space
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contractor
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drawing
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arch
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column
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pediment
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opening
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plane
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construct
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design
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residence
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design
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engineer
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designer
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shelter
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construction
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church
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bridge
building
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson, Updated by
Nancy
Smith
10/01
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