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| Muslim quarter of French colonies |
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| European quarter of French colonies |
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| Military districts of French colonies |
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| Hybridized Arab and Western architecture |
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| a European architectural movement that historians believe marked a transition from the historical eclecticism of the past. |
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| German and Austrian term for Art Nouveau |
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| Catalan (Spain) term for Art Nouveau |
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| Italian term for Art Nouveau |
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| Movements drawing inspiration from the classical art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. |
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| The use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural movement. |
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| In the debates over German unification, this option would have created a vast empire consisting of both German and non-German speaking lands controlled by the historic Hapsburg Empire in the South. |
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| In the debates over German unification, this option would have limited its boundaries to German-speaking lands controlled by Protestant rulers in Prussia. |
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| The principle or practice of a political system in which unrestricted power is vested in a monarch, dictator, or other central ruler; despotism |
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| a political theory founded on the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, governed by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority. |
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| A philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason (not sense perceptions) to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions. |
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An Enlightenment ideal popularized by German writers and reformers that endorsed public standards for promoting moral character and self-improvement. This ideal precipitated a Romantic genre of German literature
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| The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology. It is a doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought. |
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| A common belief that the most varied problems posed by the real world could be resolved by reason; contrast to Art Nouveau and Expressionism. |
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| The metaphorical application of concepts originally reserved for living nature to architecture. This approach is based on the conviction that art should imitate natural forms in some way, at times basing the design process on abstract models of natural creation. |
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| The process by which one synthesizes oppositional material practices in many forms of vernacular art. This approach is a methodology of problem solving that permits the preservation of cultural identity amidst great social pressures. |
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| According to Edward Said, this style of thought is base upon a stereotypical separation of Eastern as Western cultures. Modern scholars used this orientation as starting points for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political events concerning the Orient and its people. |
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| An American School of writers, critics, and poets that elevated individualism and spiritual enlightenment in their theories. This movement was on outgrowth of English Romanticism and German Idealist philosophy, and it exerted a tremendous amount of influence on the American architects Louis H. Sullivan and Henri Hobson Richardson. |
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| a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian, and Belgian origin. |
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| An American School of landscape painters who romanticized the natural character of unsettled American territories between 1820 and 1840. This group considered the Western half of the Continental United States to represent the essential aspects of American character and development. |
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| A school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century; among the first to promote steel-frame construction in commercial buildings. |
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a reform philosophy concerning North American
architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890’s and 1900s with the intent of using beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. |
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