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RDF and Traditional Query Architectures

2006
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a step towards the support for integrated and uniform access to information sources. It is designed to standardize the definition and use of metadata descriptions of Web-based resources. It is complemented with RDF Schema (RDFS) that lets developers define an extensible, object-oriented type system for RDF ...
Vdovjak, Richard, Houben, Geert-Jan, Stuckenschmidt, Heiner, Aerts, Ad   +3 more
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Architecture, Innovation and Tradition

Architectural Design, 2013
AbstractAntoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the author of a significant new book, Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (John Wiley & Sons), publishing in April 2013, provides the counterargument to this issue.
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Tradition and Innovation in Architectural Education

2014
The presentation is devoted to the problem of introducing computers into the educational process during the last semester of architectural studies for a master’s degree. Non-linear structures become almost the principle of design through modifying the traditional, orthogonal image of architecture.
Nina Juzwa, Katarzyna Ujma-Wasowicz
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Architectural Traditions in the Deccan

2023
Abstract Reflecting the richness of the new architectural history of Mughal India, this chapter will add another perspective on the significance of building practices in the regional polities of the Deccan between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Traditional Architecture in Yugoslavia

2010
If we are familiar with Yugoslavia’s historical and geographical circumstances it is not difficult to understand its rich folklore. Architecture usually vanishes first, but in this area it is still well preserved. Yugoslavia has not yet been influenced by technological development, a frequent enemy of cultural heritage.
Aleš Vodopivec, Rok Šnidaršič
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Function and Tradition in Architecture

1972
‘Function’ is one of the key words of present-day writing about architecture, and functionalism the most prominent architectural orthodoxy of the present time. Has the word got a distinct meaning ? My question was prompted by the reading of a book — a very beautiful book — called The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings, written by Mr J ...
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Traditional architecture of the Tembe

The Journal of Architecture, 1999
A record of the traditional architecture of the Tembe peoples has never been fully published. This paper outlines the fruits of five years original field research carried out with the late Barrie Biermann during the early 1980s. The history of the Tembe people (or Tembe-Tonga as they are sometimes known) in Maputaland is briefly traced from the time ...
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Hausa Traditional Architecture

2019
The chapter describes the Hausa Traditional Houses and buildings. Description of the building materials is fully explained, followed by the shape and the style of roofing.
Amina Batagarawa, Rukayyatu Bashiru Tukur   +1 more
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Architecture in Traditional China

2019
Chinese architecture is distinguished from buildings worldwide by the length and consistency of its building tradition and so few architects whose names are associated with it. Wood joinery and the timber frame that is achieved are defining features of Chinese architecture.
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