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Erin Hamson

School (Architecture) - 0 views

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encyclopedia science

shared by Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This text may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact the translator or spo-help@umich.edu for more information.
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      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      The article is on one school of architecture, not likly to be found in a modern encyclopedia.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      Notice the avaliability of this source. Doesn't flow with open science, or the open knowledge descirbed therein.
  • Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
     
    This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
anonymous

Bell Tower (Architecture) - 0 views

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      anonymous on 22 Sep 10
       
      It says that the tower was built to intentionally lean. Now we know it leans because of a poor foundation. Interesting
Ariel Szuch

MIT OpenCourseWare | Architecture | 4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004 | Re... - 0 views

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mit opencourseware modern art modernism mass culture readings

shared by Ariel Szuch on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Ariel Szuch on 30 Oct 10
     
    This is the list of readings for the course on Modern Art and Mass Culture found on the MIT OpenCourseware website.
Gideon Burton

Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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protocols internet history RFC open standards

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12 - Cached
  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
  • It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
  • This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
  • we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
  • Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12
     
    Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
Katherine Chipman

The Crystal Palace/ The Great Exhibition of 1851 - 0 views

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crystal palace

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  • Over 13,000 exhibits were displayed and viewed by over 6,200,000 visitors to the exhibition.
  • The London Borough of Bromley, who own the park today, together with the Crystal Palace Foundation, have recently submitted an outline proposal the National Heritage Lottery Fund to restore much of the park to its former glory.
  • The Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire on  November 30th 1936, following which the area lost much of its focus and began to decline. But many of the most important events in the history of the Crystal Palace took place in the grounds, which retain much of their original overall layout today and are a Grade II listed historic park.
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  • The park also contained unrivaled collections of statues, many of which were copies of great works from around the world, and a geological display which included a replica lead mine and the first attempts anywhere in the world to portray life-size restorations of extinct animals, including dinosaurs.
  • This "bigger and better" building was divided into a series of courts depicting the history of art and architecture from ancient Egypt through  the Renaissance, as well as exhibits from industry and the natural world.
  • The Crystal Palace was originally designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in only 10 days and was a huge iron goliath with over a million feet of glass.
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain. 
  • Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
     
    More on the crystal palace.
Katherine Chipman

Timeline for Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton - Great Buildings New World of Architecture - 0 views

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crystal palace

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  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Timeline showing where the Crystal Palace fits in with other significant structures in the 1800's.
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