contemporary architecture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontemporaryandarchitecture
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contemporary
adjective
uk/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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architecture
noun[U]
uk/ˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃər/us/ˈɑːr.kə.tek.tʃɚ/
the art and practice of designing and ...
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(Definition ofcontemporaryandarchitecturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Can this be an example of the 'unsurpassed knowledge of the major figures incontemporaryarchitecture' the publishers' blurb refers to?
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Rather, the idea of absolute autonomy, via autonomy's association with uniqueness and individualism, has instigated the desirability ofcontemporaryarchitecture.
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It went on to protest that mostcontemporaryarchitecturedisguised its reliance on off-the-shelf elements.
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This essay explores the problem of creating acontemporaryarchitecturefor a rural setting with a strong indigenous character.
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We might then be able to arrive at a reflective and thoughtful piece ofcontemporaryarchitecture.
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Only in the last twenty-five years has there been any noticeable interest in regionalism incontemporaryarchitecture.
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Fragmentation sums upcontemporaryarchitecturevery clearly, and it can be traced back to around 1970.
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Incontemporaryarchitecturepractice, drawings legally defer to building specifications. 64.
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Consequently, the following examples of different uses of stereoscopy and stereophotography incontemporaryarchitectureare atypical.
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The argument of this paper is similar in the sense that drapery is here considered as a metaphor for the billowing surfaces ofcontemporaryarchitecture.
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The success of these collaboratives has made them and their form of practice one of the most important innovations produced bycontemporaryarchitecture.
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It is a common lament againstcontemporaryarchitecturethat it has lost touch with the body.
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I heartily recommend it to anyone interested incontemporaryarchitectureand the dawning of a new age in both architecture and in our emerging international culture.
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Libeskind subverts the functional conventions ofcontemporaryarchitecture.
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Time, the fourth dimension of architectural making, is incontemporaryarchitecturepractice a too-often neglected design instrument.
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Drapery incontemporaryarchitectureis representational rather than ontological in character; it is not a drapery per se, but its representation.
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It is foolish to think, as some people affect to do, thatcontemporaryarchitectureis all bad.
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He will certainly have an input in that regard in terms of thecontemporaryarchitecturewhich will replace buildings which have to be demolished.
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