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MSN Encarta - Search View - American Architecture (11159 words) |
 | Architecture in the English colonies also underwent a dramatic change, moving away from ethnic vernacular traditions toward a stylish emulation of the fashionable architectural details used for public buildings and country houses in Britain in the late 1700s. |
| American architecture in the years between 1890 and 1920 was dominated by academically trained architects, many of whom had studied at the acclaimed École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. |
| The architectural firm of C. Lee and Partners surpassed the Petronas Towers in 2003 with Taipei 101, a skyscraper in Taiwan that rises 509 m (1,671 ft). |
| MSN Encarta - Modern Architecture (1657 words) |
| The one European dictatorship hospitable to modern architecture was that of Benito Mussolini in Italy. |
| In 1932 American architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and American architect Philip Johnson wrote a highly influential catalog to accompany an exhibition of architectural photographs and models at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. |
| An exhibition of Brazilian architecture held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1943 celebrated the International Style accomplishments of this diverse group, which included Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, and Roberto Burle Marx. |
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