The Next Era of Architecture

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WORKS CITED:

Peter Buchanan, "The Big Rethink" series,
via The Architectural Review
http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-big-rethink/#
(12 parts, very long in all, but well worth a full read).

Colin Szasz, "The Influence of Roman Engineering and Architecture"
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/arch304/winter2001/cszasz/u1/roman.htm

Beaux-Arts Architecture in America:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/beauxarts.html

Philosophy of Architecture wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_architecture

Architectural theory wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_theory

Phoenician Architecture, Temples, Palaces and Shrines:
http://phoenicia.org/architecture.html

Jan Michl, "Form follows WHAT? The modernist notion of function
as a carte blanche"
http://janmichl.com/eng.fff-hai.html

Funtionalism wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(architecture)



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