Villa Saraceno [SEP] architect
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Villa Saraceno


Villa Saraceno is a Palladian Villa in Agugliaro, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Saraceno family. Villa Saraceno has been dated to the 1540s, which makes it one of Andrea Palladio's earlier works. In 1570 the building was illustrated in an imagined state in its architect's influential publication "Four Books of Architecture". However, the villa had been constructed in a more modest form, and existing farm buildings were retained rather than being replaced by the architect's "trade-mark"
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Villa Caldogno


Caldogno. However, Angelo's father, Losco Caldogno, appears to have started to build in the 1540s, probably incorporating walls from a pre-existing building. 1570 is possibly the date of the completion of the villa's decorative scheme. The villa is not included in "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura", Palladio's treatise of 1570, in which the architect discussed a number of his creations. However, it is similar to certain villas, such as the Villa Saraceno, that Palladio is known to have created in the
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Sigismondo Saraceno


Sigismondo Saraceno (died 7 January 1585) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera (1556–1585). On 4 May 1556, Sigismondo Saraceno was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul IV as Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera. On 14 Sep 1556, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Michele Saraceni, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, with Giovanni Beraldo, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, and Nicola Majorano (Maggiorani), Bishop of Molfetta, serving as co-consecrators.
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wings. The reasons for the divergence between the published plan and the actual building are not entirely clear, but it is not the only one of Palladio's villas to be different from the published plan. The incomplete Villa Trissino (Meledo di Sarego) is another example. Villa Saraceno is one of Palladio's simpler creations. Like most of Palladio's villas it combines living space for its upper-class owners with space for uses related to agriculture. Above the "piano nobile" is a floor which was designed as a
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Palladian villas of the Veneto


the wealth and social standing of the owners: the powerful and very rich Pisani, bankers and Venetian patricians, had huge vaults and a loggia façade realised with stone piers and rusticated Doric pilasters; the (briefly) wealthy minor noble and salt-tax farmer Taddeo Gazzotto in his villa at Bertesina, had pilasters executed in brick, though the capitals and bases were carved in stone; Biagio Saraceno at Finale had a loggia with three arched bays, but without any architectural order. In the villa Saraceno as in the villa Poiana
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Tomás Saraceno


fore of Saraceno's vision. This research has also been presented in the major solo exhibition 'Cosmic Jive' at Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art (2014) and Saraceno's first solo exhibition in his native Argentina titled 'How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web' at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017). 2019, Sundial for Spatial Echoes, Bauhaus-Museum Weimar, Germany. 2017, Gravitational Waves, Z33, Genk, Belgium. 2017, Stillness in Motion - 3 Airborne Self
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IAK) at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany, from 2014 to 2016. Saraceno was a guest lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles in 2018. Tomás Saraceno continues to lecture for institutions and organizations worldwide. Saraceno's long-term artistic research project (2002–present) draws inspiration from Buckminster Fuller and other radical architects. The aim of the project is to create a modular, transnational city in the clouds, the realization of which would be a new model for liberating and sustainable building practices. The exhibition Cloud Cities
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Villa Saraceno


the villa include Witold Rybczynski, who used it as a base when researching his book on Palladio. The restoration has been praised for its sensitivity, and since 1996 the villa has enjoyed an additional level of protection, being conserved as one of the buildings which make up the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The principal rooms of the villa are open to the public on a limited basis, but the Trust attracted some criticism in the past for not promoting the building as part
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Villa Trissino (Meledo di Sarego)


was ever attempted. This did not prevent the plan from being influential: Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia shows some similarities to it. A number of Palladian villas differ from the illustrations in the "Quattro libri dell'architettura". For example, at Villa Saraceno there is a Palladian house, but not the wings of the design published in 1570, and Villa Serego is also incomplete. At Villa Trissino, the twenty-first century visitor will find no Palladian house, only the start of the two extending wings can be seen
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA (2016); - MARCO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico (2016); - Cultural Center; Espace Muraille, Geneva (2015); - Chicago Architectural Biennial, Chicago (2015); - Louvre Museum, Paris (2015); - Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2014); - Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy (2014); - Esther Schipper, Berlin (2012); Saraceno has also developed a line of
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Villa Zeno


the Villa Saraceno. It is also reminiscent of Villa Caldogno Nordera, which is attributed to Palladio, but is not included in "I Quattro Libri". Palladio appears to have incorporated an existing building, and his villa has had several modifications. Its Palladian features include a facade characterised by a triple-arched loggia. The roof is capped with period clay tiles, and the structure is of brick covered with stucco, typical of Palladio who was able to achieve great buildings with what are commonly regarded as inferior materials. In
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Quinlan Terry


In 1989, he designed a series of three new villas for the Crown Estate Commissioners in Outer Circle in London's Regent's Park. Building in the park was controversial but said to be in the spirit of the Prince Regent's original though unrealised intentions for the park, which was to contain numerous villas for Regency courtiers surrounding a new royal palace. Terry's three new villas have near-identical plans, based on Palladio's Villa Saraceno, but the external elevations vary, showing respectively Gothic, Italian Mannerist and muscular Neo
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granary. As it stands today, the villa has a nineteenth-century wing which links it to a fifteenth-century building. The villa fell into a poor state of repair in the twentieth century but retained some of its original frescoes. It was acquired in 1989 by the British charity the Landmark Trust. By 1994 the Trust had completed its restoration, converting the property, which includes adjacent farm-buildings not by Palladio, into a holiday home sleeping up to 16 people. The many people who have since stayed in
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Agugliaro


Agugliaro is a town and "comune" in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, north-eastern Italy. It is located east of road SP247 provincial road, between the Berici Hills and the Euganean Hills. In the hamlet of Finale di Agugliaro is the 16th-century Villa Saraceno, which was designed by Palladio and is conserved as part of a World Heritage Site. Other patrician villas in the area include Villa Dal Verme and the Barchesse Trolio. Other sights include the church of San Michele Arcangelo and the Oratory of San
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Tomás Saraceno


: MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey. Saraceno, Tomás. 2015. Aerocene. Berlin: Studio Tomás Saraceno. Saraceno, Tomás, and Mario Codognato. 2015. Tomás Saraceno: Becoming Aerosolar. Vienna: Belvedere. Saraceno, Tomás, and Joseph Grima. 2014. Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions. Genoa: Asinello Press. Saraceno, Tomás, Meredith Malone, Igor Marjanović, Inés Katzenstein, and D. L Weaire. 2014. Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Specific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno


, Berlin. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Aerocene. Ed. SKIRA, Milan. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions. Ed. Ute Meta Bauer. Singapore: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Notes on Aerocene. Ed. Studio Tomás Saraceno, Aerocene Foundation. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Aerosolar Journeys. Ed. Schaschl, Sabine, Zechlin, René. Berlin: Walter König. Saraceno, Tomás. 2016. Tomás Saraceno. 163,000 Light Years. Monterrey
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Blues Saraceno


, Saraceno met Vice-President of Advertising of Fox Television, who was a fan of Saraceno's earlier instrumental work. This resulted in Saraceno working on soundtracks and songs for several television shows and films. In 2000, Saraceno also founded the band Transmission OK. Saraceno also worked as record producer for the band, which was signed to Beyond Records, and was distributed by BMG. After a brief US tour, and lackluster support from the label, the group disbanded and Saraceno continued to work on television and film, as
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Tomás Saraceno


: (Volume I) Land. (Light Breeze – Stillness in Motion) K. Verlag. Berlin. Saraceno, Tomás. 2018. Aerographies. Ed. Fosun Foundation. Saraceno, Tomás. 2018. Palais 28 ON AIR. Ed. Palais de Tokyo. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Our Interplanetary Bodies. Ed. Asia Cultural Center. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. How to Entangle the Universe in a Spiderweb. Ed. Pamphlet, Moderno. Saraceno, Tomás. 2017. Flying Plaza. Ed. Spector Books
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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for the Practicing Musician" magazine. The magazine, which was about to launch a new record label, offered Saraceno a record deal. Saraceno released his first album titled "Never Look Back" in 1989. After this, Saraceno won an audition with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, former members of Cream, and started touring with them. After two successful US tours, Saraceno was quickly becoming referred to as the "kid that replaced Eric Clapton". After another year of overseas touring, Baker departed and was replaced by
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Blues Saraceno


. However, Capitol Records decided to shelve the album, releasing the 1996 compilation album, "", instead. Still, the album featured two of the new songs recorded with Saraceno. After some time, Saraceno left the group amicably and was replaced by the band's original guitarist, C.C. DeVille. In 2000, Capitol finally decided to release the "Crack a Smile" album under the name "Crack a Smile... and More!". The album features fifteen tracks recorded by Saraceno. After his departure from Poison
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Blues Saraceno


not uncommon to have multiple commercials running in multiple countries throughout the world, all at the same time and using the same piece of music. Saraceno did three tracks for Megas XLR. These tracks were Blood Shot, Berzerker and Ro-Sham-Bo. Saraceno's "Save My Soul" is the soundtrack for the History Channel's mini-series "The Men Who Built America." Saraceno's "Evil Ways" song was also used in various videogames trailers such as "", "", "BioShock Infinite
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Tomás Saraceno


Since 2008, Saraceno has conducted research in his studio into the woven habitats of spiders. This research was born out of Saraceno's interest in the origins of the cosmos and the structure of spacetime. The Earth, being set within a web-like structural dimension was the inspiration that propelled the research into comparisons between this, and natural phenomena within our planet; namely, spider webs. In developing this line of inquiry, Saraceno pioneered the invention of the first machine of its kind capable of scanning, digitising, and measuring
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Blues Saraceno


Blues Saraceno (born October 17, 1971) is an American rock guitarist, composer and music producer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He was discovered by "Guitar for the Practicing Musician" magazine at the age of 16, which assisted him in releasing instrumental recordings on an independent basis. Saraceno's high profile as a gifted guitar virtuoso and musician opened the doors to an early career as a first-call guitar sideman and session musician. Saraceno is most often recognized from his time playing with Jack Bruce and
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Simon Phillips (Who, Toto) and eventually Gary Husband (Level 42). Saraceno continued to release two other solo albums ("Plaid" and "Hairpick") as well as furthering his reputation as a top call session guitarist and landing many high-profile equipment endorsements. In 1994, Saraceno joined the band Poison as lead guitarist and songwriter after Richie Kotzen was fired. After a South American tour which included the famous Hollywood rock festival in Brazil, Saraceno recorded the album "Crack a Smile" with the band
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Tomás Saraceno


. Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy. Fondazione Edoardo Garrone, Genoa, Italy. Luma Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Saraceno is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City/Los Angeles; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires. Saraceno, Tomás. 2018. Wallpaper Magazine, Guest Editor. Saraceno, Tomás with Etienne Turpin and Christine Shaw. 2018. The work of the wind
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Tomás Saraceno


. Relating to arachnology research, Saraceno is the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders' woven spatial habitats, and possesses the only three-dimensional spider web collection in existence. Tomás Saraceno studied architecture at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in Argentina between 1992 and 1999, after which he studied art and architecture in a postgraduate program at , also in Buenos Aires. Saraceno then moved to Europe to complete his post graduate studies at Städelschule. There was directed by Daniel Birnbaum (curator of the 53rd Venice
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Batty Garvey


Batty Walter Garvey (5 October 1865 – 18 February 1911) was an English footballer who played in The Football League for Aston Villa. Batty Garvey played in the debut Football League Aston Villa team at Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, then home of Wolverhampton Wanderers'. The match was played on 08-Sep-1888 and ended in a 1-1 draw. Garvey played at inside-left. Garvey only played one more match that season, the last game of the season when Villa got thrashed 2-5 at County Ground, Derby.
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Villa Porto (Vivaro di Dueville)


tradition holds was designed by Palladio. The Conte Paolo Porto, one of the most powerful canons of the Cathedral (in 1550 he was on the point of becoming bishop) was a sophisticated and cultured man, who passed much time in Rome where he could count on the friendship of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Porto also numbered among his Vicentine friends and relatives Palladio’s foremost patrons, men like Giangiorgio Trissino, Biagio Saraceno, Bernardo Schio, and Girolamo Garzadori. It is perhaps this network of friendships which most easily placed him in
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Saraceno Benedetto


Saraceno Benedetto (born 1948) is an Italian psychiatrist and an advocate of mental health reforms. He has been director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse of the World Health Organization and is the Secretary General of the Lisbon Institute for Global Mental Health. He has been appointed as a Global Ambassador of the Special Olympics. Saraceno was trained as a psychiatrist in Italy and worked with the team of Franco Basaglia in Trieste. He was an active militant of the movement "Psichiatria Democratica", the Italian professional group supporting
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well as his session work. Saraceno's session work has ranged from Ziggy Marley ("Dragonfly") to Melissa Etheridge ("Lucky") and he has earned a reputation for being a "go-to guy" for many of Los Angeles' top record producers and engineers. Saraceno has also produced for artists including Scott Caan ("Hawaii Five-0", "Oceans 11"), Eric Balfour ("24", Haven, "Chainsaw Massacre") of Fredalba, Lindsay Price ("Beverly Hills 90210
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Tomás Saraceno


, presented at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin (2011–12), consisted of a collection of geometric, inflated shapes that challenge the notions of place, space, future and gravity. Through the exhibition, Saraceno sought to explain how human beings live in combination with their environment. As curator and art historian Moritz Wesseler notes, "an aspect that is of great importance to Saraceno in this context is that the city's shape and size can be changed continually, subjecting conventional ideas about boundaries and territories to critical scrutiny
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Tomás Saraceno


collection of spheres, each housing autonomous residential units. The network of habitable cells float in the air, combining and recombining like clouds, constructing a flying airport. This is Saraceno's utopic vision: to create a new airborne nomadism. Saraceno exhibited 'On the Roof: Cloud City' in the Iris and B Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) New York City (2012). This consisted of a constellation of sixteen large, interconnected modules composed of glass segments and cut in non-
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Tomás Saraceno


, hunting and other social interactions. Saraceno has succeeded in amplifying these inaudible vibrations and web-pluckings into acoustic rhythms. This was presented by Saraceno at the 'Arachnid Orchestra Jam Session', curated by Ute Meta Bauer at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2015). The focus of this exhibition, which included a run of live performances, was to push the boundaries of interspecies communication. This insight into non-human modes of communication helped formulate a more complex understanding of interspecies cohabitation – an idea at the
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Stern


called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or "circular" stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns
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the Pan American Health Organization in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Salvador, Chile, Peru and Panama. He played a key role in the process leading to the Caracas Declaration in 1990. In 1996 Saraceno was recruited by the World Health Organization in Geneva where he became responsible of the program Nations for Mental Health, an initiative aimed at promoting the mental health of underserved populations. In 2000 he was appointed Director of the WHO Department of Mental Health, later renamed the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. In 2001 Saraceno led
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Still Searching


. Zablocki and Saraceno wanted to add another layer to their songs, and used digital audio workstations such as Reason 3.0, GarageBand and Pro Tools. These software programs were used to make samples and program additional instrumentation to develop the layers. Zablocki's playing was influenced by southern rock and blues acts he grew up on, namely Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton. He mentioned that having Saraceno in the group "definitely propelled" the number of lead parts featured in the songs. Nielsen also praised Saraceno,
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Ginger Baker (Cream) as well as his brief tenure with the rock band Poison. Saraceno's early success in the music industry would eventually blossom into a career in producing and composing for television and film. Blues Saraceno was born to musician parents, which exposed him from an early age to several musical instruments. He started to play guitar at the age of nine. When he was thirteen, he broke his elbow when he fell from a go-kart and asked the doctor to position the cast in a way that
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allowed him to remove it from his sling to practice guitar during his recovery. When he was nineteen, Saraceno moved to Los Angeles to seek a career in music. When Saraceno was still a teenager, his then manager sent a demo tape to singer Michael Bolton, who decided to enlist him to play on a song for Cher's album, "Heart of Stone". The album also featured musicians like Peter Cetera, Bonnie Tyler, Desmond Child, and others. After this, his demo tape reached the "Guitar
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Tomás Saraceno


Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) is an Argentinian contemporary artist. He is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art. With his practice he explores new, sustainable ways of sensing and inhabiting the environment, the result of research into the origins of the observable universe, arachnology and the potential future for airborne dwelling. Saraceno launched the Aerocene Foundation in 2015; an open-source, community project for artistic and scientific exploration of environmental issues
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Tomás Saraceno


Biennale) and studied under professors Thomas Bayrle and Ben van Berkel. In 2003-2004 Saraceno participated in the course "Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive" (Design and Production of Visual Arts), held by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson at Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Saraceno’s first installations were exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2002 and again at the Venice Arte Biennale in 2003, as well as at the São Paulo Biennale of 2006. In 2009, he attended the International
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Tomás Saraceno


include: Saraceno has been recognised as the recipient of several awards: - 2019, The Golden Madonnina, The Design Prize - In the artistic realm; - 2010, 1822-Kunstpreis; - 2009, Alexander Calder Prize; - 2003-2004, Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina/IUAV Venice-Italy; - 2003-2004, Hessische Kulturstiftung Award and Residency in Rotterdam; - 2003, 16. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (1st prize). Tomás Saraceno directed the Institute of Architecture-related Art (
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upon lighter-than-air structures and sustainable energy technologies, lifted by the wind and suspended above the surface of the Earth. This 'flying plaza' represents an inquiry into public space, which according to Saraceno's vision, can be erected in alternative and fossil-free ways. Saraceno imagines spaces of dwellings as new urban skyscapes: flying buildings elevated by wind power alone, which erase the boundaries defined by geopolitics, and start to respond to local specificities. Aerocene is a project that aims to explore environmental issues scientifically
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Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.


Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. (Sep 7, 1845– August 16, 1928) was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1890), and served as its first head. Born in Boston on 7 Sep 1845, the son of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and his wife Elizabeth J Schlatter, Chandler was educated at Harvard University and in the atelier of
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Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996


all charted on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and Mainstream rock charts. Blues Saraceno replaced Richie Kotzen as lead guitarist after the last album "Native Tongue" and "The Greatest Hits" features two bonus new tracks with Blues Saraceno on lead guitar: "Lay Your Body Down" and "Sexual Thing". The compilation was certified Gold in 1999 and by 2005 the album had gone double platinum. It has also been certified by CAN gold. The album "Crack a Smile...and More!" featuring Blues Saraceno
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identical geometric shapes held in place by steel joints, reinforcements and steel cables. Visitors were able to walk through the installation, which draws its shape from bacteria, clouds, universes, foam and neural communication networks. In Orbit, installed since June 2013 at K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, spans Saraceno's inquiries into urbanism, natural engineering and communication. Curated by Marion Ackermann, the installation hangs more than 25 meters above the piazza of the K21. Saraceno's installation combines the structure of a spider's web with the vision of
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Tomás Saraceno


approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, seven people were lifted up in White Sands' desert landscape. With a net lift of more than 250 kg, the payload of the "D-O AEC Aerocene" solar sculpture has no precedent in the long history of manned solar balloon flight attempts. The project has evolved from Tomás Saraceno's residency at L'Observatoire de l'Espace, CNES. Led by Saraceno, the project's team is composed of leading scientists and engineers, including collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Earth,
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Villa Zeno


Villa Zeno is a patrician villa at Cessalto, Veneto, northern Italy, and is the most easterly villa designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The building is near the highway between Venice and Trieste, but was built to face a canal which served as the primary means of arrival. Palladio's building for the Zeno family has been dated to the 1550s. It is illustrated in "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura", the architect's influential publication of 1570, and has similarities to some of the other villas described there such as
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, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (2014–2015), among others. During the past decade, he has also initiated collaborations with renowned scientific institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute, the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and institutions of the Exhibition Road Cultural Group, among them Imperial College and the Natural History Museum London. These collaborations and residencies have been crucial towards Saraceno’s ongoing artistic research and career development. Saraceno’s work has been widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Most notably, these
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San Giuseppe Sposo, Bologna


the Second World War, including the destruction of its once large library. In 1943, the church was named a sanctuary, and in 1959, made a parish church. A museum, founded in 1928 by father Leonardo Montalti of Mercato Saraceno, is now hosted in the convent of the Frati Minori Cappuccini just outside Porta Saragozza. It collects works of art from various Capuchin order convents of the Emilia-Romagna region, including Ferrara, Porretta, Castel San Pietro, Imola, and Lugo. In the 1970s, the architect
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Giuseppe Caruso (brigand)


also one of the architects behind the massacre of 15 cavalrymen from Saluzzo and of an additional 21 between Melfi and Lavello. In 1863, along with Crocco, Coppa and Ninco Nanco, he presented himself to General Fontana, with the captains Borgognini and Corona to enter in surrender talks, which eventually were not carried out. Caruso, due to friction with Crocco in unclear circumstances, abandoned the gang and, when convinced by Saraceno family, surrendered to General Fontana on 14 September 1863 in Rionero. Imprisoned and interrogated in the Potenza
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a three dimensional spider web. The first scan in history was made on a Black Widow spider's web and was first presented in 2010 at the exhibition '14 Billions (Working Title)' at the Bonniers Konsthall in Sweden. Developed over two years in collaboration with arachnologists, astrophysicists, architects and engineers, the installation depicted the black widow spider's web on a 1.17 scale and was composed of 8000 black strings connected with over 23,000 individually tied knots, spanning 400 cubic meters. This installation provided the visitor with the opportunity
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Aschanska Villa


Aschanska Villa is a listed building in Umeå in northern Sweden. The villa was designed by the architect Ragnar Östberg and it was completed in 1906 for Colonel Wilhelm Aschan who led the Norrlands dragonregemente. Today the building is a restaurant. The villa was designed by the architect Ragnar Östberg and it was complete in 1906 for Colonel Wilhelm Aschan who led the local dragoons. Östberg designed a number of buildings in Umeå although he is known for building the Town Hall in Stockholm. Today the villa is used as a restaurant. The wooden
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Villa Paradiso


The Villa Paradiso (or Paradisio) is a large villa in Nice, France built at the start of the 20th century by the architect Constantin Scala. During World War II (1939–45) it was used by the Académie française for its Prix de Rome scholars. The villa continues to be used for cultural purposes. The Villa Paradiso was built around 1900 by the architect Constantin Scala for the baroness Hélène van Zuylen, née de Rothschild. It is an imposing building surrounded by a large garden. The property is in the north
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Trmal Villa


Trmal Villa or Trmalova Vila is a villa in Prague designed in 1902 by the Czech architect Jan Kotěra in the English Modernist style. The villa has been restored, and is now a museum and cultural centre open to the public and for research. Its architect has been described as the "founder of modern Czech architecture". Jan Kotěra designed this villa for František Trmal, a leading teacher and inspector of schools, for whom it is still named. Construction began in 1902 and was completed the following year. The building stands
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Villa Agnelli and Villa Pesenti, Forte dei Marmi


constructed in the 1930s. The nucleus of the hotel was the Villa Pesenti, a jewel of modern architecture, designed in 1939 by renowned architect Osvaldo Borsani. It is a good example of rationalist architecture, embellished with typical Mediterranean finishes. In 1953 the family added a storey to the Villa, transforming it into the only Luxury Hotel & Resort in Versilia for more than twenty years. Around the main structure, seven villas were built in the following years, by different artists and architects. Many important artists, actors, sportsmen
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Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo


family bank with governing the Republic of Florence) commissioned his favourite architect Michelozzo di Bartolomeo (usually known simply as "Michelozzo") to redesign his fortress as a more comfortable country retreat, which could be used for hunting. It was to be one of four villas built by Cosimo, the others being Careggi, Villa Mozzi and Villa Trebbia. Michelozzo had already designed the Medici's town palazzo in Florence, the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, and Cosimo's new villa at Careggi. The architect transformed the forbidding fortress into a
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Aaron Messiah


Aaron Messiah (1858-1940) was an early 20th-century French architect. Messiah was court architect to Leopold II of Belgium, but his most famous work was the Villa Ephrussi, completed in 1912. At this southern French villa, Messiah successfully synthesized the eclectic collections and ideas of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild into a coherent neoclassical whole. Messiah also built the more grandiose Villa Masséna on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Like the Villa Ephrussi, the Villa Masséna was an aristocratic French riviera retreat, and represented an
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Chiswick House


from dawn until dusk without charge. Chiswick House was an attempt by Lord Burlington to create a Roman villa, rather than a Renaissance pastiche, situated in a symbolic Roman garden. Chiswick Villa is inspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi. The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, as architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a villa closely based on the Villa Capra for his
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San Miguel de Tucumán


, San Miguel de Tucumán has been one of the cultural spots in the country, in part due to the influence of the National University of Tucumán. It has been the birthplace and/or home of well-known personalities such as folk singer Mercedes Sosa, author Tomas Eloy Martínez, a professor at Rutgers University in the United States; musician Miguel Ángel Estrella, artist/architect Tomás Saraceno, painter Luis Lobo de la Vega, and many others. Two large theatres (San Martín and Alberdi) and several smaller and independent theaters
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Villa Le Trident


The villa "Le Trident" is a Modernist villa built by the American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) for himself and his partner, Colonel Eric Sawyer on the "pointe de l’Esquillon" in Théoule-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera. From the moment of its creation in 1925, this villa aroused the interest of cultivated Riviera society, who was searching for new talent. In a few years, Dierks became one of the most sought-after architects on the Riviera, where he
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Villa La Mauresque


. Here he had a villa constructed in the Moorish style by an unknown architect. In 1927, the author Somerset Maugham purchased the property and commissioned the young American architect Barry Dierks to eliminate the villa's original neo-oriental elements, to classicize the façades and patio, and to modernize the layout by creating a staircase. Villa "La Mauresque" became Maugham's main residence until his death in 1965. Becoming a near-obligatory stop for the literary and Riviera society, "La Mauresque", from the point of
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Villino Ellul


Villino Ellul or Villa Ellul is a Modernist villa in Ta' Xbiex, Malta. It was designed and built in the 1930s by the architect Salvatore Ellul as his personal villa, and it was one of the first Modernist buildings to be built on the island. The building has been restored and converted into offices, and it is now known as Dixcart House. Villino Ellul was built in 1937–38 by the architect Salvatore Ellul as his personal villa. Ellul and his family moved out of the building when World War II broke out
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Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man


The Gaiety Theatre and Opera House is a theatre in Douglas, Isle of Man which together with the Villa Marina forms the Villa-Gaiety complex. The Gaiety is situated on Douglas promenade, overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Villa Gardens, Arcade and Butts. Built in 1899 to the designs of architect Frank Matcham as an opera house and theatre the Gaiety, along with the nearby Villa Marina, stands on the site of a lodge occupied in the early 19th Century by Castle Mona architect and Atholl family retainer George Steuart,
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Serralves


(1889-1942), an architect whose 1929 watercolors are behind the referential image of the Villa, Jacques Émile Ruhlmann (1879-1933), decorator and architect, and Jacques Gréber (1882-1962), the architect who was invited to design the new garden. With the aid of the Porto architect José Marques da Silva (1869-1947), the author of the first drafts for the Villa and the Park, Carlos Alberto Cabral gradually put together the different views and contributions. This can be seen in
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Villa Mapolli-Mozzi, Ponte San Pietro


The Villa Mapelli or Villa Mapelli-Mozzi is a large rural Neoclassic palace located just outside the town of Ponte San Pietro in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy. The site originally held a castle, property of the Mozzi family, but the current villa today was completed after 1770 by the count Enrico Mozzi. The architect is not clearly defined, but some documents suggest that it could have been a local architect Giovanni Moroni, who may have had suggestions from Giuseppe Piermarini, since the design is similar to that of the
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Villa Allatini


Villa Allatini is a three-storey baroque building in the area of Depot, in the east of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and on Queen Olga's Avenue. It was built in 1898 by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli. Of note is that the same architect designed the Mills of Allatini which were founded in 1890. At that time the region where the villa is located was called the district of "Countrysides" (des Campagnes) or "Towers", and was the easternmost limit of Thessaloniki. In the first period of
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Villa Balbiano


. The idea began to take shape in his mind of building a villa at Balbiano worthy of the family’s new status. There are some doubts as to the name of the architect. the owner of the villa at the end of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Battista Giovio (a descendent of Paolo, and like him a scholar and historian), identified the architect as Pellegrino Pellegrini, known as “Tibaldi”. However, no other documents have been found to support this. In 1637 the owner was Marco Gallio.
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Villa


Antebellum era plantations in the rest of the Old South functioned as the Roman Latifundium villas had. A later revival, in the Gilded Age and early 20th century, produced The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, Filoli in Woodside, California, and Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; by architects-landscape architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, Willis Polk, and Beatrix Farrand. In the nineteenth century, "villa" was extended to describe any large suburban house that was free-standing in a landscaped plot of
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Villa Medici at Careggi


The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. The villa was among the first of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic Academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at the villa in 1464. Like most villas of Florentine families, the villa remained a working farm that helped render the family self-sufficient. Cosimo's architect there, as elsewhere, was Michelozzo, who remodelled the fortified villa which had something of the character
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Quinlan Terry's Regent's Park villas


Quinlan Terry's Regent's Park villas are six large detached villas on the north-western edge of London's Regent's Park designed by the English Neo-Classical architect Quinlan Terry between 1988 and 2004. Terry designed each house in a different classical style, intended to be representative of the variety of classical architecture, naming them the "Veneto Villa", "Doric Villa", "Corinthian Villa", "Ionic Villa", "Gothick Villa" and the "Regency Villa" respectively. The houses are located on
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1593 to 1596. In the 17th century it was called the Herzog-Max-Burg. After it was destroyed in World War II., only the renaissance-tower was still standing. The city asked some architects to find ideas for the place and allowed to destroy the old tower. Only Ruf and Theo Papst were the two architects, who wanted to save it. So both got the order to build the New Maxburg. The steel skeleton building followed the structure of the tower and in the middle of the buildings
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Sicilian Baroque


of engraving and drawings. He was later the architect of two country villas of the early Sicilian Baroque period, remarkable for their concave and convex walls and the complex design of their external staircases. One villa, his Villa Palagonia begun in 1705, is the most complex and ingenious of all constructed in Sicily's Baroque era; its double staircase of straight flights, frequently changing direction, was to be the prototype of a distinguishing feature of Sicilian Baroque. Later, a new wave of architects, who would master the Baroque sentiments
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Villa Julita


Villa Julita, also known as Casa Ulrich, designed by architect Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti was built by Salvador Lando, in 1915, for the Vendrell-Suárez family. The architect who was a native of Ponce, had studied in Paris, winning a gold medal for his achievements in 1905. He graduated in 1905 and worked in Barcelona with Eric Sangier until 1911. Villa Julita is built of wood with some of its facade in concrete: the colonnade, the stairway and the balustrade. These elements give a neoclassical look to what
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Cisternoni of Livorno


as early as 1827. While, like the architect's other works, it is strictly speaking in the neoclassical style, the Cisternino di Pian di Rota also has the air of a Palladian villa of the Veneto. The symmetrical facade is dominated by a massive prostyle portico clearly based on that of the Pantheon in Rome while the composition of the facade could be emulating Scamozzi's Villa Rocca Pisani or Palladio's Villa Badoer. Whatever the inspiration, the architect's vision of achieving Utopian ideals in architecture by emulating the temples of antiquity
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Villa d'Este (Johannesburg)


Villa d'Este (Johannesburg) is a National Heritage site in Johannesburg, Gauteng, recognized by the South African Heritage Resource Agency, and on the List of heritage sites in Gauteng. It is located at 82 Jan Smuts Avenue in Saxonwold. The house was designed by architect Gordon Leith in 1923, as a house in Spanish style for the epidemiologist A. J. Orenstein. It was purchased in 1957 by English architect David Morrison (1910-2000), who then spent many years changing the house to a pastiche of an Italian villa
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Villa Rufinella


Villa Rufinella, also called Villa Tuscolana, is a villa in Frascati, Italy. Villa Rufinella is situated highest of the villas on the hill above the town of Frascati. It was built by Alessandro Ruffini, bishop of Melfi, in 1578, but during its history, the proprietors have made changes in different parts of it. In 1773 the villa became property of the pope. Architect Luigi Vanvitelli, commissioned by the Jesuits, gave the building its present appearance. In 1804 Pope Pius VII sold the Villa to prince Lucien
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The Villas


The Villas, Stoke-On-Trent, is an estate of 24 Victorian houses in Stoke-upon-Trent, England. Originally a distinct settlement set in green fields, it now merges with the late 19th- and early 20th-century suburban sprawl along London Road below Penkhull village on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent and within the ward of Stoke and Trent Vale. Most dating from 1851–55, The Villas was designed by local architect Charles Lynam, who became a prominent architect in Staffordshire, building the Minton Hollins
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Villa Maund


lived in the Villa Maund. Among his guests were Zaha Hadid, Daniel Spoerri, Ferran Adrià, Günter Brus, Franzobel, Heinz D. Heisl and Eckart Witzigmann. The architect of Villa Maund was William Morris, the English painter, architect, poet, artisan, engineer and printer. In 1888 he had built two similar-looking houses for John Oakley Maund in the Anglo-Scottish cottage style in Weggis on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. His pattern books (plans, elevations, etc.) can still be seen in the
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Villa del Poggio Imperiale


rooms situated at the crest of the inner courtyard designed by Giacinto Maria Marmi. Between 1681 and 1683, the courtyard and its surrounding loggias were further re-designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Foggini. Between 1766-1783, the architect Gaspare Paoletti, during the third and final renovation of the villa, accomplished the definitive restructuring of the villa to twice its previous size. Paoletti added the two flanking inner courtyards to the central courtyard, and also designed the rear facade and the great ballroom on the "piano nobile".
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Expo 58


pavilion was designed by the architects Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf. The world press called it the most polished and sophisticated pavilion of the exhibition. The pavilion of Yugoslavia was designed by the architect Vjenceslav Richter, who originally proposed to suspend the whole structure from a giant cable-stayed mast. When that proved too complicated, Richter devised a tension column consisting of six steel arches supported by a pre-stressed cable, which stood in front of the pavilion as a visual marker and symbolized Yugoslavia's six constituent republics. Filled with
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1936-1938 he was ordered to build parts of the Werdenfels and the Kemmel barracks in Murnau, after the war they were used by the US army and German troops. As soon as possible he went back to the building of private houses. In 1939 Ruf had to go to war. From 1940 to 1942 he was allowed to stay at home because he worked as an independent architect with the family of Hugo Junkers. From 1934 to 1936, one year before his death, Junkers had allowed the 26-year-old architect
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Zoltan Pali


member of the American Institute of Architects in 1993. In 2001, Zoltan completed the renovations to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. In the very same year he started work as the executive architect for the Getty Villa with the design architects, Machado-Slivetti Associates. The Getty Villa was completed in 2006. In 2005 he completed restoration and renovations at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. In 2006 he was hired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to renovate the LACMA West building - of which only a portion of the
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Bagheria


area experienced a boom in villa building roughly coinciding with the period of Savoyard (1713–21) and Habsburg (1721–30) rule and continuing for several decades thereafter. The two most striking baroque residences, Villa Valguarnera and Villa Palagonia were designed by the architect Tommaso Napoli in 1712 and 1715 respectively. Both were completed only decades later. Napoli had been influenced by his experiences in Rome and Vienna and this is reflected in his designs. Other architects and clients like Giuseppe Mariani and the Prince of Aragona also looked to prints of Roman exemplars
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Quinlan Terry's Regent's Park villas


to Egham in Surrey to become Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously been based at Hanover Lodge. The creator of the Regent's Park, the 18th-century architect John Nash, had intended to construct 48 villas in the park, but only eight were eventually constructed before 1826 when work on his scheme was stopped by the government. In 1987 the Regent Park's Crown Estate Commissioners commissioned the Neo-Classical English architect Quinlan Terry to build six detached villas that echoed the style of Nash. Terry said in a
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Poggio Reale (villa)


Fosso del Graviolo" to eradicate the problem. During the same period and in the same area, numerous villas were built for the Neapolitan Renaissance nobility. Around 1487, the Duke of Calabria, crown prince and future king Alfonso II, bought farmland in the Poggioreale valley Dogliolo, having decided to build a royal summer residence outside the city walls, perhaps in imitation of what his ally Lorenzo de' Medici was making at the time at Villa di Castello, as Alfonso hired away Lorenzo's architect. Lorenzo's favorite architect,
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Architecture of Chiswick House


Italian architects Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616). The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a villa very closely based on the Villa Capra for his use at Chiswick. However, although still clearly influential, Lord Burlington had rejected this design and it was subsequently used at Mereworth Castle, Kent. Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence
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Villa Borghese gardens


Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 197.7 acres) after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a "villa suburbana",
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Villa Chiericati


Villa Chiericati (also known as Villa Chiericati-Rigo) is a villa at Vancimuglio in the Veneto, northern Italy. It was designed for Giovanni Chiericati by the architect Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s. Palladio also designed the family's town house Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza. In 1996 UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The villa is square. A portico projects from its principal facade. (This was the first time a temple pronaos had been incorporated
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Villa Duodo


Villa Duodo, also known as the Villa Valier, is a villa situated at Monselice near Padua in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is attributed to the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi although some later parts are known to have been designed by Andrea Tirali. The villa was built for a Venetian patrician, Francesco Duodo, circa 1592. Sited high on the "rocca" of Monselice, the villa, which shows Palladian influences, is not so much a villa as a religious complex. Two "L"-shaped blocks form a rectangular courtyard.
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Villa Gazzotti Grimani


The Villa Gazzotti Grimani (1542) is a Renaissance villa, an early work of architect Andrea Palladio, located in the village of Bertesina, near Vicenza in the Veneto region of northern Italy. In 1994 UNESCO designated Villa Gazzotti Grimani as part of the "Vicenza, City of Palladio" World Heritage Site. Two years later the World Heritage Site was expanded to include Palladian villas outside the core area and accordingly it was renamed as "City of Vicenza and Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The villa was designed and built
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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Giuseppe Balzaretto


Giuseppe Balzaretto or Balzaretti (19 January 1801 - 30 April 1874) was an Italian landscape architect and architect. Balzaretto studied mathematics at the University of Pavia, but became interested in villa architectures and gardens. Among his initial projects were the gardens at the Villa Borromeo d'Adda in Arcore. As an architect, he helped refurbish the palace now housing the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. In 1858, he was commissioned to create the Indro Montanelli Public Gardens near the Porta Venezia in Milan, which he ordered in English landscape-style.
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Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)


". Christina Saraceno of Allmusic described 'Complicated' as "a gem of a pop/rock tune with a killer chorus" and noted similarities between it and the Pink song "Don't Let Me Get Me". Saraceno highlighted the song as a "track pick" in a review of the album, "Let Go". On a more negative note, Sal Cinquemani of "Slant" magazine described 'Complicated' as "infectious" and "more poser than punk". In a review of Lavigne's
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Villa Valmer


The Villa Valmer is a historic mansion in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It is located near several other villas such as the La villa de Gaby Deslys. The building is in the Renaissance style with three floors. There is a garden open to the public. The villa was built for Charles Gounelle, an oil manufacturer, in 1865. It was designed by architect Henry Condamin. It is home to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Originally named "Wave to the Sea", it was later called Villa
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William Robert Davidge


. He entered University College in 1896, and also studied at Kings College, graduating with a degree in architecture in 1900. He married Kathleen Mary Lane and had three children, Kathleen Enid Grace Davidge (24 Sep 1910), Margaret Mary Davidge (6 June 1912), and Helen Joyce "Jane" Davidge (15 May 1919). From 1902 to 1907 Davidge was an assistant to W.E. Riley in the architect's department of the London County Council. He became an associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Villa Leopolda


The Villa La Leopolda is a large detached villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera. The villa is situated in 18 acres of grounds. The villa has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and, since 1987, by Edmond (1932–1999) and Lily Safra, who inherited the villa after her husband's death. Villa La Leopolda in its current incarnation was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by an American architect,
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