thoppukandam village resort (#66)

Thoppukandama Village Resort in Oluvil, Eastern Province
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toyo ito wins the 2013 pritzker architecture prize

Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2013 was awarded to Japanese architect Toyo Ito. A seven-person jury, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, selected Ito for the annual award, making him the sixth Japanese architect to receive what is considered the field’s highest honor.

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mathematical excursions to architecture

Mathematical Excursions To Architecture (Repost)

The world's greatest buildings provide a window on great math and great design.

By: Alexander J. Hahn, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist

Mathematics and architecture are two sides of the same golden coin.

On the one side is mathematics, and its capacity to enhance the understanding of architecture, both aesthetic aspects such as symmetry and proportion, and structural aspects such as loads, thrusts, and reactions. On the other side is architecture, as an attractive setting that allows basic abstract and abstruse mathematics to become visible and more transparent.

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20th-century world architecture (book #30)

20th-Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces.

Project No 104 in the book is from Sri Lanka Sri Lanka

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architecture humanitarian emergencies / Jorge Lobos (book #29)

2/3 of the world population have no link to professional architecture, it means 4.400.000.000 of people has not relation with academic knowledge of architecture. This book tries to explain how this knowledge can come to everywhere of our planet and how it can support to improve the lack of quality of life for natural disasters or social conflicts of millions of human beings.

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