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National Park Service: Architecture in the Parks (Introductory Essay: Phase I) (6746 words) |
 | Maier's buildings were perfect solutions for an architecture appropriate to the outdoors: informal, through their use of natural materials and horizontal lines, but loaded with a strength of design and heavy-handed expression that subconsciously suggested the smallness of man in relation to nature. |
| Architectural elements such as the entrance doors were replications of similar features from other missions of the Sonora chain, studied during a scholarly data-gathering field trip during the 1930s. |
| Much of the outstanding architectural heritage of the western national parks was due to the railroads, whose economic interests inspired a fascinating architectural legacy of resort architecture; but perhaps the railroads' greater contribution was to the national parks themselves. |
| ARCHITECTURE (5576 words) |
| Architecture as a visual and constructional phenomenon is understood through geometry and its perceptual and expressive distortion. |
| It is customary to observe this shift occurring in the second half of the twentieth century, linking theoretical advances in mathematics, evolutionary biology, genetics and thermodynamics to global transformations economically and technologically, the widespread adoption and acceptance of personal computers, and the accelerating penetration of electronic communications networks into all areas of the world. |
| The summer architectural preparatory program offers an intensive design experience to candidates for admission to graduate programs in architecture who have not completed the necessary prerequisites or are required to have additional design experience to qualify for acceptance into a Master of Architecture program. |
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