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The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.
In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).
In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.
< center > The Engel House in the White City of Tel Aviv: architect: Ze ' ev Rechter, 1933 ; a residential building that has become one of the symbols of Modernist architecture and the first building in Tel Aviv to be built on pilotis </ center >
Konrad Zuse, architect of the first programmable computer, which used 22-bit binary floating point.
He is considered to be the first architect and engineer and physician in early history though two other good physicians, Hesy-Ra and Merit-Ptah lived around the same time.
His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado ; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.
He thus became the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre.
She is the niece of Lin Huiyin, who is said to be the first female architect in China.
He was the prime architect of the first nationwide political party: the Jacksonian Democrats.
Remey trained as an architect at Cornell University ( 1893 1896 ), and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France ( 1896 1903 ) where he first learned of the Bahá ' í Faith.
He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first time for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.
Vasari is also credited with first using the term " Renaissance " ( rinascita ), the period during which he was art historian, artist, and architect.
Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").
In 1485 Ivan III commissioned the building of a royal Terem Palace within the Kremlin, with Aloisio da Milano being the architect of the first three floors.
The notion of the Program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century.
At his first Cabinet meeting, Askin restored direct air services between Sydney and Dubbo, and required Joern Utzon, the Danish architect then working on the Sydney Opera House, to provide a final price and completion date for the Opera House, which had gone past the original estimates for both.
The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner between 1844 and 1848, and was the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron.
In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first being planned, Stanford brought the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted westward for consultations.
The second-system effect proposes that, when an architect designs a second system, it is the most dangerous system he will ever design, because he will tend to incorporate all of the additions he originated but did not add ( due to inherent time constraints ) to the first system.
A first attempt of renovation was begun in 1963 by architect Jean Debuisson, despite opposition from Corbusier.
The villa was added to the French register of historical monuments in 1965, becoming the first modernist building designated as historical monument in France, and also the first to be the object of renovation while its architect was still living.
Morris, having passed his finals in the previous term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, one of the leading English Gothic revival architects who had his headquarters in Oxford as architect to the diocese ; and on New Year's Day the first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

first and gardens
In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.
* The Bürgerfest is celebrated on the first weekend of July, when the palace gardens with their ancient walls are transformed into a medieval camp.
In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.
After the emergence of the first civilizations, wealthy individuals began to create gardens for purely aesthetic purposes.
The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 1847 potato famine was identified.
He redesigned the house in the style of a villa and had the gardens laid out in the latest Dutch fashion creating what was almost certainly Ireland's first naturalistic garden.
The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".
Maecenas sited his famous gardens, the first gardens in the Hellenistic-Persian garden style in Rome, on the Esquiline Hill, atop the Servian Wall and its adjoining necropolis, near the gardens of Lamia.
Maecenas is said to have been the first to construct a swimming bath of hot water in Rome, which may have been in the gardens.
Sixty gardens took part in Scotland's first Snowdrop Festival ( 1 Feb 11 March 2007 ).< ref >
The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.
The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 1847 potato famine was identified.
Walter Wade and John Underwood, the first Director and Superintendent respectively, executed the layout of the gardens, but, when Wade died in 1825, they declined for some years.
Vancouver's Chinatown contains numerous galleries, shops, restaurants, and markets, in addition to the Chinese Cultural Centre and the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and park ; the garden is the first and one of the largest Ming era-style Chinese gardens outside China.
The gentry paid increasing attention to their gardens, with new fruits, vegetables and herbs ; pasta, pastries, and dried mustard balls first appeared on the table.
Together, their first major commission was the Oakland Museum of California, a complex for the art, natural history, and cultural history of California with a design featuring interrelated terraces and roof gardens.
Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.
Between the Tuileries gardens and the Champs Élysées extension a jumble of buildings remained on the site of Place de la Concorde until early in the reign of Louis XV, for whom the square was at first named.
* Chiswick House Villa, Middlesex: The " Casina " in the gardens, 1717, was Burlington's first essay.
It was a fair and prosperous land during the first part of the Third Age, filled with many woods and gardens, but after the fall of Minas Ithil the population gradually migrated across the Anduin to escape the looming threat of the Ringwraith's city.
The colonists arrived at a good time of the year to begin cultivation wherever the ground was cleared of timber, and within the first six weeks most of them had started their gardens.
In Paris, the Champs-Élysées retain their name of the Elysian Fields, first applied in the late 16th century to a formerly rural outlier beyond the formal parterre gardens behind the royal French palace of the Tuileries.
At least 85 species have been reported: approximately 25 of these were first reported from the wild, the remainder appeared in gardens in Europe.

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