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Modern Architecture - Search View - MSN Encarta (8151 words) |
 | Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| He attributed his new architectural concepts to educational building blocks he had played with as a child, to Japanese architecture, and to the prairie landscape on which many of his houses were built. |
| The one European dictatorship hospitable to modern architecture was that of Benito Mussolini in Italy. |
| Canadian Architecture - MSN Encarta (2296 words) |
| Perhaps the strongest influence on Canadian architecture in the mid-1800s was the Gothic Revival style of England. |
| The architecture of the Parliament buildings quickly came to symbolize the new country, which was expanding from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. |
| Canadian architecture in the 50 years after the 1867 Confederation was strongly influenced by design techniques and styles that looked to past architecture for ideas and inspiration. |
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