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About the Open Architecture Network | Open Architecture Network (602 words) |
 | The Open Architecture Network aims to be just such a catalyst for change. |
| Architecture for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. |
| The Open Architecture Network is the result of a yearlong partnership that began in spring 2006 when Architecture for Humanity won the prestigious TED Prize. |
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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. |
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